Joy and Sorrow

In the previous email I reported on our daughter's engagement.  However, today we had some very sad news.  When we got up this morning we had a phone text message from Wendy, our dear friend from the Community Church.  She and her husband, Jeff, moved last May to Nigeria where he had a job.  They are originally from Zimbabwe, and as with many of our friends had had to leave their home in that country.  We have missed them.

For those of you who have visited us here in Zambia before that time, you may remember them from our Friday night gatherings or the braii we have had with our Zim friends.  The text message this morning said that Jeff was in the hospital in Nigeria with malaria and was very sick, asking us to pray.  During our church service, Benedict received a call that Jeff had died.  So please pray for Wendy who has to close up everything there in Nigeria, come to terms with her husband's death, and we assume travel to South Africa where one of their daughter's live.

We are all shocked by this news, but we know that Jeff is rejoicing in heaven.