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	CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY NEWS This is part of a Newsletter received from Colin and Anita Smith, our CMS Mission Partners serving in the Nairobi Diocese, Kenya. Further information can be obtained from Wendy Williamson (0161-483 3933). Warm greetings from Nairobi! It has been about fourteen months since we wrote Not the Link Letter, our attempt at a slightly more chatty letter, more about us than about the work we are involved in. Much has happened in those fourteen months. Anita was diagnosed a year last March with an underactive thyroid and then in the May with burnout and depression. Through excellent medical supervision combined with a Christian therapist, she has been well taken care of, and is now re-entering a more normal schedule, having learnt to establish a few boundaries, and to have the freedom to say ‘No’! Colin is stretched work-wise beyond what he can really manage, resulting in little time off, and no let-up in sight. He is travelling a fair deal over the next two months, in connection with work, in Mozambique, South Africa, Philippines and Mexico. The events following the (Kenyan) election at the end of December affected everyone, which, combined with the subsequent rise in food prices and petrol—a global issue not just Kenya’s—has made life very difficult for so many.	Sheila takes her IGCSE exams next summer, and will then finish at Braeburn High School. We are hoping that she will be able to take up a boarding place at Monkton Combe school near Bath. Anita and Sheila did a flying visit in May, and were very impressed. Sandie finishes at Braeburn Primary school this July (they finish in year 8 here), and will begin the High School in September. She was on the year 8 outdoor pursuits trip last week, kayaking amongst hippos, cycling through zebras and abseiling above warthogs! Thank you for all your interest and support. With our love Colin and Anita Smith with Sheila and Sandie Please pray for: Anita to continue to feel well; Sheila preparing for her IGCSE’s; Sandie as she looks to go to High School; Colin to find ways to manage his commitments; Kenya as the repercussions from the post election violence continue and as people struggle with the price increases.
	Norbury Parish Church, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire. Telephone: 0161-483 6325

Church Mission Society

CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY NEWS

This is part of a Newsletter received from Colin and Anita Smith, our CMS Mission Partners serving in the Nairobi Diocese, Kenya. Further information can be obtained from Wendy Williamson (0161-483 3933).

Warm greetings from Nairobi!

It has been about fourteen months since we wrote Not the Link Letter, our attempt at a slightly more chatty letter, more about us than about the work we are involved in.

Much has happened in those fourteen months. Anita was diagnosed a year last March with an underactive thyroid and then in the May with burnout and depression. Through excellent medical supervision combined with a Christian therapist, she has been well taken care of, and is now re-entering a more normal schedule, having learnt to establish a few boundaries, and to have the freedom to say ‘No’!

Colin is stretched work-wise beyond what he can really manage, resulting in little time off, and no let-up in sight. He is travelling a fair deal over the next two months, in connection with work, in Mozambique, South Africa, Philippines and Mexico.

The events following the (Kenyan) election at the end of December affected everyone, which, combined with the subsequent rise in food prices and petrol—a global issue not just Kenya’s—has made life very difficult for so many.

Sheila takes her IGCSE exams next summer, and will then finish at Braeburn High School. We are hoping that she will be able to take up a boarding place at Monkton Combe school near Bath. Anita and Sheila did a flying visit in May, and were very impressed.

Sandie finishes at Braeburn Primary school this July (they finish in year 8 here), and will begin the High School in September. She was on the year 8 outdoor pursuits trip last week, kayaking amongst hippos, cycling through zebras and abseiling above warthogs!

Thank you for all your interest and support. With our love

Colin and Anita Smith with Sheila and Sandie

Please pray for:

Anita to continue to feel well;
Sheila preparing for her IGCSE’s;
Sandie as she looks to go to High School;
Colin to find ways to manage his commitments;
Kenya as the repercussions from the post election violence continue and as people struggle with the price increases.

Church Mission Society

CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY NEWS

Norbury Parish Church, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire. Telephone: 0161-483 6325