The Gills in Malawi

As a lot of you will know we have had a few troubles with our health this year. Paul has been having trouble with his breathing since January and in April ended up in hospital on a drip. I also have a couple of things that have been bothering me too.

We had the amazing opportunity to meet with a Doctor/councillor who was over from America at another project. He spent a long time talking to us and we really appreciated his time and compassion. He found Paul to have high blood pressure and felt that Paul is exhausted and in need of a holiday. He found a bakers cist behind my knee (not a lot can be done for this here but it is not pleasant) and I also have plantar fasciitis in one of my feet which causes pain when walking! Oh my goodness we do need a holiday!!!! lol!

On the day we saw the Doctor we received an email from someone who said they really felt we needed a holiday and were going to send us some money for one!!! Paul read the email and started laughing and crying and felt a physical weight lift off his shoulders. At the start of the year I had felt to pray for a holiday and have been praying since February for this, I even felt God impart faith to me for it. How amazing is our God...he supplies all our needs and knows what we need even before we ask. I am still amazed at His provision for us and goodness.

So since we received the email we have had a buzz in our house. We have been hunting on the internet for different places to go. We will not be able to leave Malawi till October as we have visitors till then, and we plan to take a slow drive down to South Africa through Mozambique to save some money on the airfare from here to there. So we are planning to take our holiday in November. We would like to go somewhere hot and our hearts desire is to go to an all inclusive. We know that God has the perfect place for us!  If you have any suggestions we would love to hear from you.

We will also be able to fly Lauren over to South Africa and spend some time with her there before we travel back to Malawi! God is soooo good!

I was going to wait until we had found our holiday to share this amazing news with you but I woke up this morning and had this song going round in my head 'look what the Lord has done, look what the Lord has done' and felt I needed to share our testimony with you all.  When I look at what God has done for us this year with our car and now this I can say I am truly humbled and grateful.

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