PDF  Pirini Ponders - November 2018

Greetings to you all

You may recall from our previous newsletter we shared about health concerns for our family and surgery for Elise.

An update on Elise’s surgery. She is doing well after 3 brain operations in a 2-week period and 6 weeks in hospital recovering. She returned home to recuperate at the end of September and I returned to the Solomon Islands early October. Elise is doing well and as she puts it ‘back to normal!’ A follow up appointment with the Neurosurgeon is planned for 16th November where decisions will be made when to operate on the remaining brain and spinal tumors. We really appreciated your prayers and support for us during this time.

So back on the SWIM base, this has not been without its challenges with staff and management moving on. Ron had the privilege of teaching another staff member to drive and pass his license and we have been in the process of recruiting for more staff. Our Word Pastor, Eric Maefonea has left SWIM and will continue to minister to the Solomon Island people through his training programme.

Last month we were busy supporting a team of 18 from Wamberal Church in Sydney who are doing an amazing job building a secondary school out at Samasudo in the Isabel Province. They will return next April to continue work out there. Ron anticipates joining the team on this trip.

We look forward to an exciting time next year with new challenges and opportunity for ministry here at the SWIM base and within our own local communities and programmes we are involved in.We invite you to consider your churches, youth groups, schools and other groups to visit and be part of either an existing project or new initiative and look forward to catching up with those who return on a yearly basis.

We are returning to NZ for the Christmas break and look forward to catching up with many of you then.Have a blessed Christmas and New year.

All our love and Gods blessings to you

Ron and Tanya

Prayer support

1. For Elise and her continuing recovery and our dads and their continuing health issues

2. For our the CRCA review team and our board in Australia as they look at the future direction of SWIM.