KEITH AND LYNNE'S WEDDING(S)

Keith and Lynne were married on 20 June 2009 at Mossvale Community Church, Paisley, in Scotland...
...And again on 12 September 2009 at Gorom-Gorom Church, Burkina Faso.
Here are a few photos and videos from the weddings.

• UK Wedding Video
• UK Wedding Photos
• Burkina Faso Wedding Video
• Burkina Faso Wedding Photos
• Lynne and Keith's Future

UK Wedding Video

Here are three short videos from our wedding service. We have cut out the sermon and a lot of the singing and some of the prayers.
Thanks to Tony and Steve for these.

Part 1: Lynne's entry, and our Wedding Vows.

Part 2: Wedding Greetings from Gorom-Gorom, a short video we played during the service.

Part 3: Moumouni praying for us. Communion. Worship. Signing the Register. Leaving the church.

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UK Wedding Photos

Thanks to Dave and Bruce for these.
(Click any photo to enlarge, or click here for a slideshow .)

The Wedding Ceremony





We leave, dancing, to "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees

The Official Photo Bit


i. Best Man and Bridesmaids. / ii. Keith and Lynne's Parents

Lynne's Family

Keith's Family

i. Mossvale Church Friends. / ii. Glenwood Church Friends

i. Pastors and Wives. / ii. Visitors from Afar

i. Moumouni. / ii. Lexie and Michelle

i. Michelle. / ii. Corinne and Michelle / iii Lynne

i. Lynne's Work Colleagues. / ii. Other Friends

Everybody

The Reception



And heading off...

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Burkina Faso Wedding Video

Here is our Gorom-Gorom wedding video, Burkina Faso, Sep 12 2009.

Following our original wedding in Scotland, we had another one in Gorom-Gorom, to celebrate with our family and friends there.

Many of our close friends were involved: Seydou was my best man. Grace was Lynne's bridesmaid. Pastor Pascal preached. Pastor Adama married us. Pastor Pierre translated into Fulfulde. These guys are our close friends and co-workers, real men and women of God. It was such a joy to have them share in that day with us.

It was all arranged very much at the last minute, since there was so much else going on with the soccer school and everything else. Nevertheless, all the pastors from the province were there to pray for us, and people came from around the country to join us. Sadly, many of our Muslim friends could not join us as they had prayers and commitments for the month of Ramadan - the Islamic month of fasting. But there was still a good crowd for the wedding and the feast afterwards.

So here it is - but, just to warn you - they married us, using our Fulani names: Adama (Adam) Diallo and Hawwa (Eve) Diallo... Enjoy!
Burkina Faso Wedding (thanks to Mal for doing the filming.)

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Burkina Faso Wedding Photos

Thanks to Ineke for most of these.
(Click any photo to enlarge, or click here for a slideshow .)

We are led into church by best man, Seydou, and bridesmaid, Grace

Our good friend Pierre exhuberantly leads singing in fulfulde.

The church was filled with many friends, including ten local pastors

Pascal preached in French. Pierre translated to Fulfulde, and Peter to English.

Pastor Adama led the wedding ceremony, again translated by Pierre and Peter

The giving of rings

Married... again!

The pastors pray for us

People file out to greet us

Photos with the pastors and with our best man and bridesmaid

Then back home for more celebrations...

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Keith and Lynne's Future

Keith and Lynne plan to continue to develop the ministry in Burkina Faso, where Keith has been working for 20 years.

Their work will involve travelling between Burkina Faso and the UK, as they also build up the Acacia Partnership Trust (the charity Keith set up to facilitate his work in Burkina Faso - see below).

They don't yet have a date for moving out to Burkina Faso. Immediately after the wedding and honeymoon, they will be based in the UK for a few months, though travelling out to Burkina Faso for a while in September to begin to set up home in Gorom-Gorom, and to oversee a "Soccer School" the church there will be running with support from churches in the UK

They will then spend time in France for Lynne to improve her French, which will be necessary for her life in Burkina Faso. During this time, they will maintain contact with the work in Burkina Faso, and may be travelling out there occasionally.

You can follow Keith and Lynne's regular news at Keith's blog: www.undertheacacias-blog.org.uk

Supporting Keith and Lynne's Work in Burkina Faso
If you want to give us a wedding gift, we would like to ask you to send a gift to the Acacia Partnership Trust to help us in setting up our home and developing our work in Burkina Faso.

Here are some of the expenses we foresee in the coming months. These are the things we will use our wedding gifts for:

• Setting up and equipping a home in Gorom-Gorom.
• Buying a vehicle for Keith and Lynne's work.
• Setting up a mobile dental clinic for work in villages.
• Establishing the Gorom-Gorom Ministry Centre to serve our work in the region
• Ongoing work in evangelism, education, poverty relief, etc

Any wedding gift of this kind would be the greatest blessing to us. Thank you.

Where to Send Wedding Gifts
You can give gifts online, or by cheque or cash:

• Online:

  1. You can give online to Keith and Lynne's work in Burkina at the Acacia Partnership Trust website donate page. In this way, APT as a registered UK charity can reclaim the tax on gifts of UK tax-payers.

  2. To give directly to Keith and Lynne personally, without reclaiming tax, you can click below to give by PayPal or by Credit/Debit Card:
  

  
• Cheque:
  You can send cheques to:
  The Acacia Partnership Trust
  10 Tarragon Way
  Pontprennau
  Cardiff CF23 8SN
  
  • Please make cheques payable to Acacia Partnership Trust, and write "Keith and Lynne's Wedding Gift" on the back
  • If you are a UK tax-payer, you can give this as Gift Aid, which will enable us reclaim tax and thus add 25% to the gift. Click this link to download a Gift Aid form .

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The Acacia Partnership Trust

"Partnering Churches to Serve Communities"

• A quality primary school for the poorest of the poor.
  
• Wells for villages on the edge of the desert.
  
• Education grants for vulnerable children.
• Homes rebuilt after being destroyed by a flood.
  
• Soccer training for children from Muslim families.
  
• Churches starting in villages where people are accepting Christ for the first time.

These are some of the accomplishments of local churches in northern Burkina Faso with help from Keith and the Acacia Partnership Trust

The Acacia Partnership Trust (APT) was established by Keith to facilitate his work in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world. We partner churches in the north of Burkina Faso with others in the UK, Europe, and the US, as a means of bringing God's transforming grace to their communities.

APT exists to serve church-centred sustainable community development and transformation. We take a distinctly Christian holistic approach, believing that the message of Christ touches the whole person, responding not only to the spiritual needs of people, but also transforming the physical and social conditions of individuals and communities.

You can read more about our work in Burkina Faso at the APT website: www.acaciapartnershiptrust.org.uk

The Acacia Partnership Trust is a registered UK charity (no. 1126683)

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