Wonderful!

While I was down-country on Tuesday (leaving Susie at home to continue her labour of love for Hagar) some pretty amazing news came through. The house we loved and lost is available again! The contract had fallen over - were we interested? Is the pope a Catholic??

Today we signed up for our first Healing Home. We shall call it 'Wonderful', because central to our heart in all this is that the name of the Lord be honoured and made great ('His name shall be called ... as per Isaiah 9)

It is a funny thing, walking through a 'was dead and is alive again' day like this. We know that it was right to lay the property down and wait. Equally, we are sure that it has been given back for this vision. We have signed a three-year renewable lease and take possession on Monday 16 June.

Remember this photo? We are catching up with Pastor Jesse (in the blue t-shirt) for lunch after church on Sunday too - and look to work out lots of details about this Healing Home being a part of the ministry of New Life Fellowship here in Phnom Penh.

Downstairs open waiting room area.

The big bed-room. Susie reckons we will get eight people in here. It was two rooms but there was an alteration ... We are negotiating on being allowed to do our own colour scheme. Pink and Kim do not agree! There are two other bedrooms across the passage downstairs - and another seriously large one upstairs (that we want to become two rooms)

The mango trees have really grown since we were last there two months ago. They give great shade and also act as a natural attraction for the resident mosquito population! The property is kind of 'best house, worst street' - a narrow, potholed dirt road running behind and parallel to a road that gloriously floods in the wet season. It was pouring yesterday and my trusty spider moto never missed a beat thru' some very exciting road flooding. That's Phnom Penh - major street flooding occurs all over the city in the wet times.

A real bonus is a house-lot of furniture - in fact, too much furniture. The main sticking point in our negotiations was the landlord's dilemma of what he will do with the stuff we will not want. We return next Friday to finalise all this. Most important will be the agreement to remove the mother of all spirit houses, now mounted on a concrete pad at the front gate.

We have started planning for the opening and dedication of this home through the weekend of June 20-22.