Tonight is probably going to be one of the books. The weather report is saying it’s going to get down to around -2 degrees with the wind chill factor. And let me tell you what. As I sit here in my living room with sweat pants, a sweatshirt, a wool cap on, and my little heater about 2 feet away I don’t think they’re lying. Unfortunately, I don’t have central heating in my house so it’s probably around 40 degrees right now and that number is only going to go down as the night goes on.

Just to give you a little peak into the reality of climate of my house right now. A 2 liter bottle of Coke that is sitting in my house is now frozen. Yep, my refrigerator has dropped in temperature because it’s so cold in my house. Oh boy! It’s going to be a long cold night.

I’m in the process of changing the way my blog works and things aren’t going to well at the moment. As you click around you might notice things are working quite right. For instance I’m having trouble getting my photo section working. Please be patient. Hopefully I’ll have everything working pretty soon.

Last weekend one of the buildings on the property caught fire. Somehow sparks from the fireplace made it all the way up and out of the chimney and caught the thatch roof in fire. It took all of us staff, a visiting mission team, and other nearby farmers about 3 hours to finally put it out. We were very fortunate that that only part of the roof was destroyed and not the whole building. Unfortunately though, the part of the roof that was destroyed is pretty much what keeps the roof structurally sound, so it still might turn out that we’ll need to rebuild the entire place.

Please pray…

• That we will have favor with the insurance company
• That we will be strengthened through this
• That we will trust God to turn these ashes into something better than we could image.