The Wilby Fam: March 2012

Marvelous MARCH!!

BABY EMMIE - Wow the year is flying by and can’t seem to quite keep up to date with all that is going on. Poor Baby Emmie is not doing so well and battling with Colic!! So Aunty Tan flew to Joeys to help for a weekend. And super dad Mark kept the 3 boys by himself. Oh yes it was a trying and testing time in many ways but what a super dad he was and what specially behaved little men we have – THANK YOU JESUS for family and the support we can be for each other. Tan so enjoyed the time to chat and encourage Amber yey another sister and she just loved getting to know her better.

It was great to help out where she could to ease the load on the new parents we made small victories each day, Emie hates the bath water, is very cute and just love the fashion mommy ambz is dressing her in - look at the shooz!! :)

Sorry couldn't get it to rotate right - isn't she cute!!!

We made some special memories together. - Love you all very much!!

SCHOOL GALA – Yey!we all dressed in gumboots and armed with our umbrellas as we set off to the gala. Yes, it decided to rain the day of Troydie’s school gala but as they were all going to be wet anyway the gala was set to happen. What a great time we had big boy Troydie did so well on his race he had to jump in with the kicker board and kick like mad to get across the school pool. We all cheered so did the family of ducks that had visited for a quick swim!

NEW HAIR – Tan had a spoil from a very special friend to have a new hair style so off to the hairdresser and look she stepped out the SALON!! Too fun!! _ see the two looks - short curly or short straight!!!

Ministry

@TAP COFFEE SHOPPE – we have a little coffee shop that is on our church property that serves part of the community center. It has a lovely playground with all sorts for the kids to enjoy. As of the start of the year the new manageress has implemented some renovations and Tan together with another mom were asked to paint the murals on the walls. It was a huge job of tracing, drawing and painting that continued for most of the month of March. Many an hour in the hot sun painting while the kids played. The end result was great – what a testimony to others as they come to the coffee shop and are surrounded with pictures of bible characters.

The Wendy house is painted as Noah's ark with animals on all four sides

Jesus calms the storm

Jonah and the Big Fish

LADIES PRAYER BREAKFAST – The ladies ministry started their year with a prayer breakfast and it proved to be a huge blessing. The early morning was perfect to meet to fellowship over a continental breakfast and then special structured prayer time was planned out. Tan shared a short devotion on prayer and all the ladies were greatly encouraged after meeting together in this way.

FUTURE MINISTRY – we as a couple have spent special time in prayer for our future ministry at Durban North Baptist Church. We underwent an interview and presentation regarding the Senior Pastors position and both of us felt that we are not the right people for this specific job at Durban North Baptist Church and decided after much counsel with our mentors that we withdraw our names. We praise the Lord for his leading in our lives and know that the Lord will lead the call committee to the right man to come alongside Mark to lead Durban North Baptist Church. Please pray for our church, call committee and us as we seek to do our best as we lead the church in the interim.

Family

BIRTHDAY TIME – for Tan!!! We planned our weekend off over Tan’s birthday and headed north to visit Trent and Amber. This was the official meeting of the cousins and what a special time we had as a full family.

We got to enjoy the outdoors of Joeys, we camped in Trent’s garden – the boys loved that!!! We had a visit to Botanical Gardens where Baba (Tan’s Dad) was able to walk the fullway to the waterfall on his “new “ Knee Praise Jesus all is coming right there – slowly but surely. Troydie especially liked the tortoise! :)

We planned an outing to the Zoo and that was super special to all have this time out “in the WILD” together. The Polar bears even swam for us. We got to watch them feed the cheetah and enjoy lunch with the Chimps - too fun!! It really was a very special weekend to make memories and celebrate birthday time together.