Diana's Peak

After the Good News Club today, two girls stayed behind because they wanted to become Christians. I was again privileged to explain the gospel to them and pray with them. These girls are best friends with the two girls who committed their lives to the Lord at the Holiday Club, so the original two have been witnessing! We give the Lord praise to see growth, and continue to pray for these young Christians.

The schoolroom reroofing is now complete, so a workparty was undertaken to remove the junk from the schoolroom, and clean and dust everything, which was unbelievably dirty after the two months or so of building operations. The work went quickly, with a group of about 8 people pitching in. We are thankful to the Lord for His provision of finances for this project to be undertaken - it was leaking quite badly. We are also relieved that the Good News Club will no longer be held in our diningroom - furniture shuffling is not one of my favourite ministries.

Dad wanted to do the Diana’s Peak walk, and since Nick is more or less free on a Saturday, we thought it best to tackle it today. Mom was very happy to be at home with the boys, so after lunch we drove out to the entrance of Diana’s Peak National Park. It’s in a particularly beautiful part of the country, with spectacular views of lush green valleys and flax-covered cliffs. We picked the shorter two-hour walk, and when we arrived back at the car we were surprised to discover, that with stopping along the way, we had taken exactly two hours! My dear husband picked a flower for me on the way which was nearly as tall as I - I have never seen such a long arum lily. Some parts of the walk were quite steep, which is to be expected since we were ascending the highest peak on the island, at 823 metres. Diana’s Peak and the National Park surrounding it is almost in the middle of the island, and afforded us an almost 360º degree view of sea, valleys, cliffs and houses. Apparently there is what is known as a Cloud Forest in that area, which we could see. At times we were walking in clouds with 100% humidity, and we could actually see the clouds moving and forming and blowing just beneath us or ahead of us. One has to really experience it in person to appreciate it, but it was a very uplifting time!