Sister Maria - sending a laptop - working hard

We had a wonderful time with our sister. She is called Maria Gire. She completed her secondary school and she came to visit us. She has been at home and when Mama Linda came back, she was also given the chance to come and visit us. She is now 19.

The computer will be of a great advantage and will help me in a lot of things to be done. I will be grateful if you work it out for me.
About the postal address I will confirm and send it to you soon.

I am really trying my best by working harder to achieve what I want. We always have assigments almost every weekend to keep us busy on the different units to be done.
Greetings to every body and the family members
Your brother in Christ Yemba

A visit from my sister - a photo from Marion - Mothering Sunday

Christian greetings to you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are all doing fine with Mogga and our sister who is on her long holiday after completing senior four. She has come to visit us and will be going back soon.

How was the mothering season? I wish I could be there to give you some flowers too but wish you the same for the help support and care you have given me. I wish I knew the mothering season so that I could also remember you all. May God bless that day.

I received Marion's wonderful electronic photo. How about you making a permanent copy for me some time and sending it to me please?
I will be grateful to see your photos.

Greetings to all family members
Yours brother in Christ
Yemba

Late (lost?) exam results in Nairobi

Latest news from Mike:

Thank you too for keeping me in contact all the time when I do write to you.

How is every body over there in the parish of Abbas? I think every body is busy as per now in different activities been carried out in the parish..

We are doing fine except in the university where every body is furious about the delay of the exam results. The administration said the results are not yet seen from the software so we are still waiting for what is next: whether to re-do the exams or to get the list of the results from the lecturers. I know my supporters are expecting the results so sorry for that but I will inform you about it if every thing goes well.

Greetings to all the family members and those supporting me.
Your brother in Christ,
Yemba.

Fundraising event - can you help?

Winterborne Whitechurch PCC are holding a car boot sale at the village hall on 28th March. I am planning to ask for a space so that I can run a second hand book stall, and hopefully raise some money towards Mike Yemba's support. Any donations of books would be much appreciated. They can be left in Winterborne Whitechurch church or Winterborne Stickland church, or you can e-mail me to come and pick them up.

News from Nairobi 15th March 09

Dear Jenn,How are you doing over there?We are all doing fine with Mogga and my friends although there was some violence in the city. Our university is around 12 km from the city, so we are not much affected by the violence taking place. We are safe; don't worry about us.

It was my dad that I lost when I was young and my mum is still living although others were lost and disappeared during the war. My mum also disappeared during the war and came back after some time. That's when they happened to know that she is alive.

Robin wrote to me and has told me his plans of coming.

I think all of you are busy right now for the happy Lent season that is taking place. I pray all that you're doing may be blessed and God will grant you more for what you have done.

I will be grateful to see the photos of my British friends and those supporting me .May God bess them for making my future brighter. Have a blessed spring weather change for the better. Work to be done! We have been experiencing dry and hot weather with no rain since December upto now.God bless you all, Yemba

(The photo is Mike Yemba at home in Rokon during the Christmas vacation. He's "helping mum during her absence cooking.")

What's Juba like?

To read a wonderfully vivid description of Juba, please see Trevor and Tina Stubbs' blog for 9th March at:
http://trevorandtina.blogspot.com/

Latest from Mike

How are you doing and the family at large?About the photos: I took them in Rokon where we now live in our ancestral land (since it was the war which displaced our people during the war) except the one in the church which was taken in Kera during Christmas time. Since I grew up with Mama Linda from my child hood I have been calling her mum and Bishop Francis as dad. If my mum is among them I have to differentiate by calling them mama Kiden or mama Linda - not for me alone even other brothers and sisters do the same.

I will hear from Robin of when he is coming to Nairobi.I will be grateful if you can send for me the computer because as per now that is what I am lacking and I usually face difficulties in doing my assignments and accessing other things from the internet.

I thank God for choosing you to answer my prayers through you.

I will search for some photos showing the different tree species but I think it will delay a bit because I don't have them as per now but think the soil and weather differences create a wide difference in our place since our place is mostly hot.

I know how you feel now very happy and thanking God for your son's step daughter snce you are to be called great grand mum. Greeting to them and wish them happy moments.You mean knitting using your own hand or machine? I thought that you don't know about these things. Then it is the same among all of us - that’s what our people do for their children. I thank you for all that you are doing to me. May God bless you all. Greetings to all the family members and those who are supporting me in my career.

Your brother in Christ Yemba