We have been spoiled again this week. Our very good friends, Kerry and Angela Hartley, flew in for three days as part of a missions trip that also takes them to Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. There is a lot of happy history between us. Kerry and Angie have been married 26 years - and I was there with the wedding rings in my pocket on the day.
I went hunting for Angie - and found her in the kitchen, quietly teaching little Douch our cook English. She did a bit of a language exchange too, and came out of the hour or so with a good little Khmer vocab!
It was a good week to have them here. After closing for the Water Festival week, the Healing Home has filled again rapidly. Tuesday was actually chaos day with neighbours in the yard, a very sick lady turning up un-announced and generally working through lots of stuff. Currently we have six patients in the home plus three family members, so all beds are taken. We'll introduce the new people later. There are some pretty huge needs.
Back to Kerry and Angie - they arrived Wednesday and departed today. Kerry took a great devotion teaching Thursday morning and followed that up with our first staff training session on Friday morning. They got to have time with friends mark and Jo over dinner at our place Friday night. Last night it was out for dinner with Donnie and Sophea - a belated 'thank you' to them for overseeing the Healing Home in our absence last month. Coffee with Colleen (Asian Outreach - from Tauranga) this morning was another relationship connection too.
Kerry is my legendry 'can-do Kiwi' example. Here he is fixing our water pump in the front yard - and yes, the water flows again! He also healed our overflowing water tank at home. I was as helpful as Dennis DeVito in 'The Castle' - passing tools and making happy noises.
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