Just over three years ago we were greeted with signs similar to the one below at the beginning of our time with MMS Aviation ... Yesterday we arrived back in the UK having left Ohio and the USA and having enjoyed it as our home ever since that first day in September 2009.
We had a very good and uneventful trip back to London and even got an extra piece of baggage through without having to pay the required additional $100. We now have a couple of months in the UK to catch up with people and make our final preparations before flying out to Tanzania on February 16th to start working with MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) out there.
Our contact details while we're in England are as follows ... (we will be staying between both sets of parents and they can always pass on messages) ... feel free to get in touch!
Mobile phone number : 07530 399707
Mark's parents, Val & Phil Beckwith : 01959 574875
Jenny's mum, Joan Hadlow : 01883 622529
Mark email : mnbeckwith@gmail.com
Jenny email : cheekyrafiki@hotmail.com
Mark email : mnbeckwith@gmail.com
Jenny email : cheekyrafiki@hotmail.com
Here is also a brief outline of some of the places you may be able to catch up with us. Let us know if you need more information about any of these opportunities to see us.
- Sunday 30th December - Emmanuel Church, Weymouth
- Sunday 6th January - Yeovil Community Church - morning service (just visiting, not speaking)
- Sunday 6th January - afternoon tea near Yeovil - invitation only
- Friday 11th January - visit to MAF UK offices in Folkestone
- Saturday 12th January - open house in Purley - invitation only
- Sunday 13th January - Purley Baptist Church - 2x morning services & one evening service
- Sunday 20th January - Whyteleafe Free Church
- Saturday 26th January - 10.30am-12.30pm cake & coffee morning at Christ Church, Orpington ... open invitation
- Sunday 27th January - Croham Road Baptist Church
- Monday 4th - Friday 8th February - MAF training course
We're really looking forward to the chance to see many of you over the next month or so but for now are trying adjust two little girls to our new time zone ... so far it's not looking good!!!!!!
If you have contacted us in the last few weeks and haven't had a response, it's not that we're ignoring you, we've just been a little bit pre-occupied ... hopefully you'll hear from us soon. Thank you for your patience at a time of huge transition in our lives!
If you have contacted us in the last few weeks and haven't had a response, it's not that we're ignoring you, we've just been a little bit pre-occupied ... hopefully you'll hear from us soon. Thank you for your patience at a time of huge transition in our lives!
WE think you are wonderful and pray God's protection peace and energy over you all in these exciting but full days! Dodoma will be such a happy place for the girls!
ReplyDeleteLots love Richard and Jane Gill