NEWSLETTER - More Double Blessings

APRIL and MAY 2008

God’s Word
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purposes. - Romans 8v28-29

Ministries at church
We started April with a BANG.
The Lion King Holiday Club
Our overall theme was the Lion King and our daily theme was based on the “Lords Prayer” which we also learned as the week’s memory verse. Mark was the Game Ranger and he led the ministry every day to the children. We had 7 leaders all with an animal African name. Each day consisted of a time of worship lead by Nhembe the Elephant, with singing, actions, plays, video clips, memory verse teach (done by Polly the parrot) and the senior pastor was the Game Hunger he visited every day with moral lessons from the bush. Toto the monkey was our mascot and she visited every day with letters for the leaders from the children and replies for the children from the leaders this proved to be a great way to share the gospel with the kids. We had a game time with loads of action, tea and eats and fabric painting. We ended each day with a small group time where the children were taught lessons from Jesus life and had time to do a craft too. We had about 50 kids attend each day and they had a wonderful time. We thank the Lord for the blessings of working with the children in this way. Our week was ended with a Parents evening where we had a time of prize giving and worship for the parents to get an idea of what we had done with the children for the week. In all we can say that the Lord was glorified in it all and as leaders we were greatly blessed.
Preaching Gods Word
Praising the Lord for all the opportunities Mark has been giving to share in this way. I have been able to see him grow in this ministry and we thank the Lord for his provision in this way.
Quick review on all our other ministry involvement
Mark is still leading worship for several morning and evening worship services. Tan has been helping once a month on the guitar but is finding a bit hard to play with her tummy getting in the way.
Young adult’s bible study has grown through the year and they meet every Wednesday evening averaging about 20 each night this has been a huge encouragement to us both.
Sunday school we are helping lead where we can and giving support to our new Sunday School Leader who is doing a great job with the children.
Youth leadership will be a new ministry Mark will be more heavily involved with as our leaders are wanted to take a break for a while. Please pray for special leadership of the Lord in this area as we are wanting to try something fresh and new and ministry to youth has been tough!
New ministry just starting – sewing ministry. Tan has been involved in helping a sewing ministry start where we will be mending new damaged clothes from a factory to give to our pastors in the rural areas of Zululand and Mozambique South Africa.
Another new ministry “All Things To All People” AT TAP. We are doing renovations to our existing hall and facilities that was a play school. The idea is to start a homework center for children to come to in the afternoons to do homework, hang out and been encouraged and ministered too. This project also includes a coffee-shop and play center for little children. Be in prayer for this big project as we hope to grow our children and youth ministry through this project. Hoping to start fresh in the New Year with children of all ages having a Christian environment to “hang-out”!




DOUBLE BLESSING NEWS
Most of you would have heard by now that we are growing our family to number 5. Tan is pregnant with TWINS. Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. We were so excited to find that we were pregnant again for our second baby and for Troydie to be a big brother then to find a double blessing of TWINS on our 9weeks scan at the doctor. We know that this is a God thing as we have no history in the family of twins and praise the Lord for this privilege to raise two more children for his glory. We ask for special prayers as our needs are great. Mom and babies are grown, Tan is seeing the doctor every month to monitor the progress closely. Her tummy is as big as it was at 6months with Troyden’s pregnancy and she is 5 and half months (23weeks now)! Tan has made some new preggy clothes (bit bigger than last time as we think she will be really big later) and enjoyed planning out her wardrobe. The start of the pregnancy was very hard, Tan was extremely sick with morning sickness all day but has gotten over that hurdle and is just feeling a little more tired that with her previous pregnancy. We are praying that God in his will will make the rest of the pregnancy easy and that Tan will be able to carry the twins to the end. The due date is 22nd September 2008 and she will be having a C-section 2 weeks earlier (around 7th September 2008) all going according to how she carries at the end.
Keep us in your prayers as we prepare for the arrival of our two babies. God’s Biggest Blessing Yet!

TAN at 5 AND HALF MONTHS PREGGY (decided to put on a tight top for you to see how big she really is!)

Family News
Mom and Dad Eayrs have completed their ministry as Pastor of Central Baptist Church in Pietermaritzburg and have taken on a new position partly with the Natal Baptist Association as Mission Developer and Macedonian Ministries (mission organization). They will be overseeing mission in and around our region of the country. Please pray for them as they take this huge step in faith to follow the Lord’s leading into Mission Full Time.

Mom and Dad Wilby are doing well, Dad has made some changes in his home cupboard business which has proved to be less stressful and he is enjoying the work. They are very excited by the time Christmas comes this year they will have 5 grandchildren. Tracy & Errol, Mark’s oldest sister and her husband will have their baby in June please be in prayer for her the baby boy joining their little family.
Robyn & Craig, Mark’s youngest sister and her husband are facing a change in their future ministry – please be in much prayer for them at this time. Their little son Joshua is growing big guns he is 4months younger than Troyden but bigger than him and has just started to walk and become a busy busy little body.
Trent in Johannesburg is doing well, the church is enjoying a study through John Piper’s Desiring Gad series and many lives have been challenged through it. Still praying for someone special for his life to helpmeet him in his ministry. Please pray for him and stress of being a senior pastor, loneliness is a struggle!

UPDATE ON TROYDIE
Running
Well we are well on our way the walking was taking too slow so we now like to speed along as quick as we can. With this we have had some minor boo-boos with falling and bruising the little bod. One of which was a fall into the bath while mommy was leaning over washing her hair. OOPS!
Favorite Games
At the moment Troyden likes to play with DAD. He climbs on him and rides on his back like a cowboy riding a “horsy” and this is so much fun. DAD is his favorite at the moment and we are learning to say good-bye without tears.
Words
We know that when they do come they are all going to come together. Right now he is communicating with his own little monkey like sounds which are too cute – like oo oo ah ah and then thrown in there is dadadad and sometimes it comes out like dad!

Prayer Requests
Thank you each and everyone for your special prayers, God is Good all the time.
· Family needs as listed above, especially for the delivery of Tracy and Errol’s little bundle of joy (June 20th).
· For Tan and the twins, their development and her strength to cope with the pregnancy and Troyden. Pray for this to be a blessed time for all of us as we prepare for their arrival.
Ministry at Durban North
· Youth ministry and the way forward with God’s leading and guiding.
· Ministry in general – to remain focused on the Lord and to be reminded often that this is for His glory and not our own.
· For Tan as she pull out of ministry to focus on caring for the needs of Troyden and the twins to come this has been a hard thing for her as she loves to serve the Lord in many ways. Pray for special patience for her as she redirects her focus for this season in our lives.
NEEDS
· With the soon arrival of the twins we are facing many needs, new housing as our home will become too small too quick and the housing market is very very expensive, a bigger car and all the usual needs facing one when adding a new baby but now in our case two babies – please pray that the Lord will lead and guide us into our future.
· Our finances – the challenge to make the ends meet.
PRAISE THE LORD WITH US!!
· Troyden has been our biggest blessing and we are praising the Lord for his health, able body, strength, personality and development what a miracle! THANK YOU JESUS

NEWSLETTER - EASTER BLESSINGS

January , February and March 2008

Still battling to get proper internet connection – everything is Africa is so slow! Here’s our news up to date!

EASTER BLESSINGS
This is to send you special thoughts and prayers at this very important time of our year. Christ came to earth for the Salvation of us all. Thank you Jesus for the sacrifice you made for us.

Start of the year
We had a huge start to the year with Troyden’s FIRST BIRTHDAY. It was a great time of celebration – we had his friends and their moms around for a party our theme was Noah’s Ark. The party was followed by open house tea for all the church family to stop in wish the little man on his big day. It was so fun because he had just started to walk and was enjoying trying to be on his feet all the time.

Troyden with Jack having fun with the "Arky Cake"

Ministries at church
Ministry got off to a bang and were have been busy busy busy with all that is going on at the church.
Friendly Circle Granny’s Meeting
Tan had the opportunity of speaking at the Granny’s Valentines Day meeting and they had a wonderful time thinking on “Love”-ly things, singing some love songs and learning our Hearts are to be in Christ!
Church Getaway
Mark together with a committee planned the church getaway to a camp site in the foothills of the berg (mountains). 70 church folk joined us at the conference center for a weekend of fellowship, fun and getting back to the basics of our Christian Faith. We had a session on Prayer, one on Personal Devotion Time and Mark lead the one on Church and the importance of it in our lives. Tan helped plan the children’s ministry. We all had a very blessed time together.
Preaching Gods Word
This New Year has more opportunities for Mark to be in the pulpit as our senior pastor has taken on the President position for our Natal’s Baptist Association (our States Association). This position will require him to visit many of our region’s churches and preach for them. At the moment he is preaching through Colossians in the morning services and Jonah in the evening services.
Young Adults Bible Study
Our young adult’s ministry is up and running for the year and our group is loving the study of God’s word each week.
Guitar Lessons
Tan has been teaching on the side some of the young adults from church to play the guitar. Is has been a fun time to fellowship and sing together.
Ladies “Treasures and Gems” meeting
The ladies of the church had their quarterly meeting and the theme was Treasures and Gems we had 4 church members share their own personal testimonies of how God is their treasure. It was a huge blessing and such an encouragements to us all. We had a time of worship and made some gem salvation bracelets together to end of the afternoon.

Friends from the USA
We had the best opportunity to take some time off after the busy festive season and holiday down the coast with Terah, Nicole and Matt – good friends from USA. We made many memories and enjoyed the beach house a few meters from the crashing waves. It was very relaxing and a most enjoyable time was had by all.
We did some fishing – and everyone caught something. We swam in the African ocean which proved to be a huge experience as our waves are stronger and wilder. Some of us got stranded on the sand and boy did we laugh. Shopping and a little pampering at the “All African experience” Spar were also some of the things we added to our holiday time.

HOLIDAY FUN OUTDOORS

UPDATE ON TROYDIE
Walking
Well we are well on our way by the first party the little man was up on his feet and thought he was the greatest been able to walk around on his little feet. TOO CUTE!
Personality
Troyden is developing his little personality. He is outgoing, friends and very smiley. He will go to anyone at church and is quite comfortable to walk about by himself. He is like Tan’s little shadow and goes everywhere with her as she does the grocery shop and runs errands.
Soccer
He has become our little soccer player. He loves to kick a ball and run with it. At the moment it is his most favorite toy.
Counting our Blessings
We are so blessed to have such a content and happy child and true blessing from the Lord!!

March BIRTHDAY time
We took our weekend off over the Easter Weekend and traveled up to visit Trent in Johannesburg. It was lovely to spend the weekend with him. Tan celebrated her 29th Birthday on the Saturday; we went shopping to some of the big malls in Joeys and watched a Rugby game at one of the local schools. Easter Sunday was Trent’s 31st Birthday and he preached to God’s glory we so enjoyed sitting under his teaching as a family. We celebrated our birthdays with a big roast dinner as the weather was a little chilly with winter on its way. It was a lovely weekend of family and fun together. We so miss him living so far from us but praise the Lord we are all together in Africa for this season of our lives. Troyden so enjoys playing with his Uncle T they get along really great. Our Easter had extra blessings of being together as family.

Prayer Requests
Thank you each and everyone for your special prayers, God is Good all the time.
· Knowing God’s will and leading in our own lives as we continually seek direction from him especially in the leadership of ministries.
· Tracy (Mark’s older sister) pregnancy has gone really well and her little boy will be born: due date 20th June.
Ministry at Durban North
· Marks preaching – we are praising the Lord for his continual stretching teaching and guiding. Mark has so grown in this avenue of ministry please continue to pray for him as he ministers in this way one Sunday morning a month and 3 Sunday evenings a month.
· Sunday school involvement we have gotten involved there to over see the ministry to the children and are planning our first holiday bible club for April 2008 – The Lion King.
PRAISE THE LORD WITH US!!
· Praise the Lord for a church family that has welcomed us and made us feel part of their ministry in South Africa, Durban. We also thank the Lord for much space to minister together with the senior pastor and his wife and for their leadership and guiding in our lives, they have allowed us so much opportunity to grow and we thank the Lord for them and all the members at Durban North Baptist Church.
· For our finances – our challenge to make the pennies stretch continues but we continue to praise the Lord for his provision in all things.

FROM GOD’s WORD
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty - Psalm 91v1

CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS! - News letter

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND BLESSING FOR 2008

October, November and December 2007 - NEWS LETTA

Isaiah 9v6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the govenment will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

More apologies for not keeping up on updating our blog! In the process of getting internet at home this will help much with our correspondence, hope to have it in the New Year!!!

Ministries at church
Preaching Gods Word
Mark has so enjoyed preaching this year it has been a great time of growing for him. He will be preaching a whole bunch more over the month of January. Please be in special prayer for him as he prepares his sermon for Christmas Day.
Young Adults Bible Study
What a blessing looking back over the last year. We started our young adults group with five and we now are a group of 33. We ended the year with a three course dinner at our small home. The close fellowship was great and they all so enjoyed the evening of fun with loads of food - the chocolate fondue was a real hit!!
Women’s Ministry Meets–“LIGHT OF THE SEASON”
Tan was hugely involved in the planning and helping of the last ladies meeting of the year. They had a wonderful full afternoon thinking on Christ as the Light of the Christmas Season. She did a demo on containerized gifts for Christmas and they had ideas shared on decorating candles. Each lady received a Christmas cracker gift filled with a tract on Jesus as the light and a little candle. It was a wonderful afternoon of sharing together.
We have also just launched our very own church recipe book (80pages). What a project but we did have fun putting it together – LOADS OF FELLOWSHIP!
Craft Evenings
The girls completed the card making series and then for the Christmas craft evening they had fun making Christmas wreaths – how lovely!!. This time together this year has proved to be a great time of fellowship for the ladies of our church.
Sunday School
We both got involved in helping organize the Sunday school nativity play. It was so special to see the children dress up and live out the Christmas story. Troyden was too cute. Pastor Stuart used him as a live illustration in his sermon (Herod’s edict to kill babies under the age of 2years). As the pastor greeted him “Hello Troyden” he waved back!!! Far too cute!
Worship
To end off the year of worship we are leading the Carol service together. Some of the members will be in our
nativity “. Readings of the angel, Mary, Joseph, King, Shepherd and Prophet – recalling what it was like the night Christ was born. We are the shepherds and Troydie will be a sheep. We are so looking forward to sharing in this time together.

Weekend in the Berg (Mountains)
We had a great family weekend with Mark’s folks and his younger sister (Robyn’s family) in the mountains along side the lake. We so enjoyed the time together and the cousins had the bestest time ever. Troydie crawling everywhere and Joshie trying his hardest to get moving.

Troyden on the left - big Joshua on the right - he weighs the same as Troyden and is 3 months younger we all know that Josh is going to be a big boy!

CAPE TOWN HOLIDAY
We were privileged to be treated to a holiday in Cape Town. We had some special friends come from the USA and holiday with us. We got to enjoy some of the sight of Cape Town and the Garden Route. We enjoyed the lovely views, beach, water front, and mark even got to ride an Ostrich!!! We really did the tourist thing and had so much fun making memories together with our friends and Troydie! We ended our trip with a drive up into Lesotho on a really rocky road and a weekend in the Game Park ending with a visit to Zululand - Manzibomvu. This was the first time Troyden had ventured up this way and he was really warmly welcomed by his other church family.

Troydies first plane ride, he did so well just slept the whole time.

View from the top of Table Mountain - God is BIG!

Swimming
Mark has started swimming at the local pool 5 mornings a week. Troyden and I have been tagging along to enjoy the time of exercise and fresh outside air. Troyden so enjoys paddling his toes we have not yet ventured into the water but got the out fit and Bentley belt ready maybe one day this week we will have him floating out in the water with us.

Baby Troyden UPDATE
Troydie is really on the move!! Crawling really quickly and enjoys playing catches. The new thing now is he likes to climb all over, he can nearly make it up the stool next to the bed and then onto the bed. He also is standing without holding on “Look Mom No Hands!”. He stands just for 2 seconds and then sits down hard.

Look dad & mom no hands!!

Peek-A-Boo is initiated by him now and this is so cute, he loves to hide under the blanket and for us to find him. His favorite toy is his little soccer ball and is practicing to throw, when he does he screams with delight. Bath time now is spent standing and “fixing” the taps; he loves the water even in his face. We now have 8 teeth and he is eating more and more solid foods (his new favorite is ice-cream – YUM!). He is still having about 3hours sleep during the day keeping us more and more busy when he is awake. He is now waving and this has made him all the more friendlier. He has also learned that if he holds out his arms he will get picked up and will generally go to anyone. Not to mention the cutest smile that he shares with all!

DAD IS MY BIGGEST HERO!

Any opportunity to get my hands in the mud and then make sure that I taste to see that it is good fun!

Check out my cool little shooz!!!

Plans for Christmas
We will be celebrating Christmas with Marks folks and the extended family on the 20th Dec in Pietermaritzburg. His two sisters are up from Cape Town and East London with their families and the Grandparents will also be joining us for dinner. We plan to have our folks – both sets over to our house for dinner on Christmas Eve to enjoy a relaxing evening together.
Christmas Day will be celebrated in Durban – Mark is preaching and we will enjoy the worship service together as a family. Trent will be flying down from Johannesburg after his Christmas Day service and us together with Tan’s folks will spend a few days down the coast at the beach.
For New Year we will be in Durban for he services and then hope to spend a few days with his folks and sisters up in the mountains. Praying that our time with family will be a special blessing to all of us.

Prayer Requests
Thank you each and everyone for your special prayers, God is Good all the time.
· Knowing God’s will and leading in our own lives as we continually seek direction from him.
· Our Christmas travel plans – safety and special time with extended family and friends. Pray for a special time of rest and relax.
· Tracy (Mark’s older sister) is 12 weeks pregnant with her first baby – please pray for the health for mom and baby. (the family is all very excited – due date mid-June).
Ministry at Durban North
· Marks preaching into the New Year 2008, say a special prayer for his preparation and his communication on Christmas day as we always have many visitors.
· Carol Service (23rd Dec – evening); pray that many will come and share in this evening as we focus on the birth of God’s son – Jesus Christ.
· Sunday school involvement we are praying about leading the Sunday school next year as we have no superintendent, a very big opportunity to reach out to children with the gospel and to lead by example.
PRAISE THE LORD WITH US!!
· We look back over our first year of ministry and praise the Lord for teaching us so many different lessons – Thank you Lord for giving us this opportunity to minister for you in this way, what a privilege.
· For our finances – we have had a challenge this year to make our money’s stretch but we praise the Lord that we always have – what a blessing!!!

CHRISTMAS WISHES
This is to send you special wishes at this wonderful time of the year. Christ was born – know that if he never came as a baby we would not have known him on the Cross at Easter time.
GOD’S SPECIAL BLESSINGS ON YOU ALL
AT THIS FESTIVE TIME IN CELEBRATION
OF CHRISTS BIRTH!!!

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Port St Johns

We spent a week at Port St Johns - Mark and dad did some mission work in the area and Tan and mom got to visit and have some fun with Troydie!

Inspecting the grass and the twiggs and all the outside fun things!!

Special moment - this is where Mark proposed to Tan - now Troydie is in the picture too - Praise the Lord for many special memories and moments together!!

My special BOYS says a proud MUM!!

FUN AT HOME

TROYDIE FUN TIMES AT HOME - WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE CUTE MEMORIES WITH ALL OF YOU

Troydie wrapped up after a fun bath!!

2nd Hair Cut - the curls are too cute but needed a trim. The hair dresser visits at home to cut his hair on the dinningroom table and this time he was spoilt with a Lollipop - What a sticky hairy mess!

Morning coffee with mom and dad in bed - he just is the cutest and the funnest first thing in the morning

Me in my "Limo" - new cart with 6 WHEELS!!! Yey yey yey

Learning to like my cot in MY ROOM - play peek-a-boo with dad over the railing

Just have to weigh myself to see if I'm growing properly!!

Love to play but it's better if you get in the toy box with all the toys !

In the Bath!!!

Troyden is loving the water more and more - his favorite toy in the bath is his squeeky yellow duck.

GOD'S BEST ALWAYS

JULY, AUGUST and SEPTEMBER 2007

So sorry for the slow news but as you read you will see much has happened in ministry and in our little lives. Decided to write for 3 months as so much has happened and we are so blessed to share it all with you!!!

Ministries at church
Young Mum’s Bible Study
Tan has so enjoyed her time each month with the young mommy’s of the church. They are working through Elizabeth George’s book “Mom after Gods own Heart” as she explains the importance of Deut 6. She has found this verse such an encouragement and challenge – “writing God’s word on the doorpost of your homes” we now have a bible memory verse up on the fridge to remind us of His goodness everyday.
Craft Evenings
It has been a busy busy time for Tan. She has been planning the craft evenings once a month at the church. For the next 4 months she is doing a series on Card Making. The Ladies have so much fun being creative and fellowshipping together.
Young Adults Bible Study
All is going great we have about 15-20 each Wednesday night to study through the book of Acts together. Mark is enjoying the challenge in teaching and leading this group. We had a very sad month – September. One of our young adult mom’s (new mommy her baby only 8 weeks old), she was murdered in her home! It has been a really hard yet blessed time to be involved in encouraging and helping others through this very very sad and hard time. Daddy of the baby is doing well and baby is fine. All that we can rest on is that God is in Control He is the Sovereign I AM!!!
Ladies Meeting
Our church ladies had a fun afternoon learning on colour and organizing of your wardrobe it was great to have such a big crowd together.
Sunday School
Tan had decided to get involved in Sunday school. She is helping out with the worship once a month. The theme is “SHIPs”. They have fun singing and learning from Tuggie the Tugboat about all the ships in the Harbor – FriendSHIP, LeaderSHIP, DiscipleSHIP, and WorSHIP!!! Preaching Gods Word
MJ has had a great time in the pulpit and is still preaching through the book of James in the evening and enjoying the challenge there. In the mornings together with Pastor Stuart they have just started a new series through the book of Habakkuk. Please remember him in prayer as he prepares to share what God has laid on his heart each time.
Worship
MJ leads worship mornings and evenings several times in the month. Tan has decided to join the worship team one Sunday evening every month to help out with singing and playing of guitar. She is enjoying getting back into playing and has fun worshiping with the others in the team.

MJ’s 30th Birthday Celebrations
It was great to have the whole extended Wilby family together to celebrate over a sit down dinner. Mark’s aunty Barbara from England was also visiting and even the new little nephew from East London was there.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MJ!!!

Troydie opening Dad's pressies

Visit to Johannesburg
In July we had a fleeting visit with Uncle T in Joeys. It was great to spend some special quality time with him. He just so enjoys time with Troyden. He is doing well and enjoying ministry, keep him in your prayers as he seeks the Lords will for his ministry at Florida Baptist. He is so excited at what the Lord is doing in his church Praise God for His special blessings on this congregation.

Mission to Zululand – Riverbend Macedonian Ministries hosted a team from Riverbend in the USA. They were a music team that came to lead worship for a tent revival in Zululand. Trent was the preacher for the week and they all had a huge blessing in sharing the gospel in that area. Mark was able to help with transport

Gran Wilby’s 80th celebrations
Mark’s Granny turned 80!!! We had a lovely family meal at a posh (fancy) hotel and enjoyed the time with family we have not seen in years. Many traveled from far to be with Gran on her happy day!

Troydie with Granny Wilby

Baby Troyden UPDATE
Well our little baby is becoming more of a little boy each day!!!. He is on solid food three times a day and enjoying his cereal, fruit, yoghurt and even the veggies! He got his first two front bottom teeth one on the 23rd August and the other right after on the 25th August.
He is having about 3hours sleep during the day so keeping us busy when he is awake.
Then he has managed to get going in all fours he is now crawling all over the place and wanting to climb up everything. He loves to be chased and gets so excited and laughs so hard that he gets hiccups!! TOO CUTE.
Well he really is the "smiler" and smiles all the time such a happy child and so easy we have been so incredibly blessed with this little bundle.
We spend most of our days at home and he loves to be outside so we play as much as we can on the grass which he finds very ticklish on his little toes.
He has learned who we are and cries if we leave the room in too much of a hurry. Dad is his favorite play mate they have so much fun, tickling, laughing, chasing and playing peek-a-boo!

Happy Baby - all the time!!!

Mission Trip to Mozambique
Mark has juts gotten back from taking a team from our church to help with ministry and sharing of the gospel in Mozambique. They had a blessed time and were able to preach on the Sunday at 6 different churches not all Baptist, so this was a huge opportunity to share the gospel. They had kiddie’s ministry and ran a small clinic as one of the team members is a sister at our local hospital. Our church people were hugely encouraged through this experience.

Family Time
We praise the Lord for all the time we have had to spend together as a family. Grand-dad and Grand-ma Wilby visit us every Thursday night to have some special time with Troydie. Grandpa and Granny Mally Eayrs visit when they can (once a week). Then we were able to have Trent to stay for two nights this past month. When we can we visit them all in Pietermaritzburg too. It has been great to visit with the family and have them so close by we cherish this special family time together!

Home Time
In our busy schedule we have been able to find some time to be creative at home. Tan is busy completing a cross-stitch for Troyden’s nursery meant to be completed before he was born!!! The next goal is before he turns one!!! She is also working on loads of beading projects (necklaces, home décor and key chains to decorate hand bags). MJ has managed to get his workshop a little more organized. He now has a hand me down lathe to do some wood turning and collecting some tools together to complete his workshop organization.

Prayer Requests
Thank you each and everyone for your special prayers, God is Good all the time.
· Knowing God’s will and leading in our own lives.
· Own special time with the Lord to refresh us in our personal walk with Him and as we have family devotion time to teach Troyden of the Lord Jesus Christ.
· We are planning a trip to Cape Town (29th Oct –12th Nov) with some of our friends from the USA please pray that this will be a time of rest and relaxing.
· Mom and Dad Eayrs leave for the USA on the 15th Oct for 2 weeks pray for a blessed time of visit, ministry and rest!
Ministry at Durban North
· Marks involvement in preaching, please say a special prayer for his preparation and his communication. (Oct 7th morning, Oct 14th evening, Oct 28t evening
· Mum’s bible study (every 2nd Tuesday).
· Craft evening (first Thursday of every month); pray that many non-Christians will be reached through this devotional, hands-on fellowship evening.
· Sunday school involvement a very big opportunity to reach out to children with the gospel.
· Our involvement in worship, worship drama, men’s ministry, teaching, leading and guiding of God’s children.
PRAISE THE LORD WITH US!!
· The MIRACLE of Troyden and the blessing he is in our lives as he grows and learns from us.
· For our finances – we have had a huge challenge making ends meet and we praise the Lord for his continued blessings, he always provides.

FROM GOD’s WORD
Lamentations 3:22-23 “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”