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September 02, 2009

Lavant News

Dear friends,

Thanks for your continuing support and prayers. Here's some of our recent news.

I returned from Burkina Faso at the end of July, and Charlie and I went on a church holiday by the seaside which was very refreshing. There was some excellent teaching there, but for me the highlights were the following three talks, which can be downloaded free from the Holy Trinity Brompton website:

Shane Claiborne: http://www.htb.org.uk/focus-09/sunday-evening-celebration
J. John: http://www.htb.org.uk/focus-09/monday-evening-celebration
Bishop of London: http://www.htb.org.uk/focus-09/thursday-morning-celebration

In August we celebrated a milestone birthday for Mum with a big family get-together down in Padstow, Cornwall. Happy birthday, Mum!

We are now living in a small cottage in a village called Lavant, where Charlie is busy making apple chutney and flapjacks and I am busy banging my head on doorways. For the first time in our married life we have a television, which I'm very happy about! We have a spare room too, so do come and stay if you're in the area.

When we don't have visitors, the spare room is where I write. It's an attic conversion looking out over the Goodwood estate and many miles of green fields. I have started on another book for Andersen Press - rattling along at a thousand words a day and enjoying it very much.

My previous book HACKING TIMBUKTU is to be published in the UK tomorrow. It's a treasure-hunt adventure – think King Solomon's Mines but with a good helping of parkour and computer wizardry. Andersen have sold US rights to a publishing house called Clarion. This is pleasing news since it will be the first of my books to travel across the pond. For a synopsis and some early reviews, see http://www.voiceinthedesert.org.uk/teen_fiction/hacking_timbuktu/

As of today, I take on my Horizons Sahel leadership responsabilities. First thing on the agenda is to write funding applications for the building of six new classrooms at the Horizons primary school in Niamey. It's a great little school and I'm hoping that some of these applications will be successful.

Meanwhile, Charlie is almost seven months pregnant. Her due date is 8 November. She is currently doing the fashion pages for a Christian girls' magazine here in the UK. It's called Caris Magazine: http://www.carismag.co.uk/

That's all for now. Love as always to you and your families. Alla beydu jam.

Steve

Posted by sahelsteve at September 2, 2009 10:41 AM