Back in Australia

Greetings and a big Thank You to all of you for all your prayer support. I could sense and feel the energy of prayer around some difficult situations where I knew that I could not do without the support of prayer.   To often we place little emphasis on the power of prayer and think we are able to do it all in our own strength.  I have come to rely on praying and more so asking for that prayer support. 

I am now back in Australia.  I was fortunate to be able to sleep on the plane between Kathmandu and Hong Kong.  I struggled but did manage to stay awake on the next leg of my journey from Hong Kong to Sydney.   Thank goodness for a good book, a German traveller to Sydney and some OK movies.  It all helped to while away the hours.

It was sad to leave Nepal especially my new friends and contacts I had made whilst over there and before going.  Is it good to be back?   Well ask me in a week or so.   I would like to take some time to reflect on my experiences and as to what God now wants me to do with all these new learnings and experiences.  I have become so much more enriched by spending time with the Nepalise people, experiencing their culture, their difficulties, their struggles and lack of hope as to how things can change for them.   I have seen the best and the worst, the injustice surrounding women. I have talked to many of the students who see no hope in obtaining a career of choice. Young women who only see themselves being married off in an arranged marriage.  In the village there are many illiterate women and men.  Many cannot even write in their own language.  Proper sanitation in remote locations, children walking 2 to 3 hours to go to school, children who don't go to school and the list grows.  Some of this is very difficult for even me to grasp.  Yet I know in my heart that I can make change through assisting communities setup sustainable programs (where they will take the ownership) that will incorporate change to improve conditions and the way of life for the basic Nepali person.  I see much of this undertaken through education and training.

I can also say that the Nepali people I worked with were genuinely appreciative of any assistance they could get to help them improve their circumstances.  These groups of people gave me so much more.  I stayed with a number of Nepali families.  I was very welcomed into their home and very much made to feel part of the family.  For all of this I am very thankful. 


I can see myself returning to Nepal in the very near future. I have a couple of reports to complete for various groups of people and I hope to complete them over this coming weekend.  After that I will see where to next.

On that note I will sign off and go to bed.  I should have gone a couple of hours ago.
God's Blessings to you all and I hope to see many of you in the coming weeks.