Tony and Laura Lewry

this is a noisy, ugly bug!! about 3 inches long

out base leader and good freind

Whilst working on the new apartments I will be training one of the ex-street boys from hope house. I'm very happy about this as I retrained as a bricklayer specifically to be able to do training for street kids. and he is doing very well!!

Eat as many as you want just walk around and pick them up. beautiful!!!

i'll be designing and building 4, 1 bedroom apartments on top of Milton's house

We'll be out on the streets tonight, so please pray that we find Chris and he wants to come home.

I do admit that we haven't picked a simple path for our lives but this last few weeks has been unusually unsimple. Over the past few weeks 5 of the 12 boys at hope house have left. And for the others many new things are becoming part of their routine. One boy, who we knew was struggling since he got here 6 months ago, decided to leave, which is always hard on the staff involved. Then one of the o lder boys who had been in the house for years was visiting his parents for the weekend and was arrested for dealing drugs, they eventually decided not to charge him but he also left the house. Last week 2 of the older boys moved into the apartment block here on the base as a step towards independence which is brilliant! Also many of the boys who are old enough have started working with me in construction, which is going well and is a good step for them to become independent. I even have an apprentice who I am teaching to bricklay. Then last night one of the other newer boys, Christiano, ...

the wall is finished the path is laid the drainage is in the ground is leveled!!! hopefully the grass will start to grow soon

my sister has suggested that animal of the week should have some nice animals!! so just for Bea, here is a bird.

As well as working in hope house and on the street Laura is helping with the discipleship training school, which started last week. after the welcome meal we played a game. each team had to dress someone up as a famous person we didn't guess what Andre was but he looks like he was having fun. Jose was the queen and we dressed up Eurico as Elvis and we won the game!!

You can tell it was made by a European! it has garden spaces inside. Supposed to keep it cooler. we have the house for a year. We share the dining and living room space and the kitchen with another family. We have a small bedroom with en suite just off to the left of this picture and next door to it a little room to keep all our books and the fridge we keep our food in! Tony likes to study in the hammock!

we went to the beach for Christmas I ate prawns for boxing day dinner

it was long (52 hours) it looked like this We looked like this. It also looked like this we mostly did this

Sleep is evading me (laura) and running round in my mind is last Wednesday's visit to the street. Even though it was days ago its still feels raw, if that makes sense. There were less people out as some people are still on holiday. I normally make a list of of the people I've talked to as I think it is special when someone remembers your name, and I want to try and make these kids feel special. My list reads like this: 4th january2012 Marcos-not sure if it's his real name as I tried to guess and he said yes to the first thing I said! Was with Josiannie- was so high on glue unable to form too many words but liked to look at my face, incredibly skinny about 13 years old Sister or friend of Grace Kelly- told her of famous singer. She had no front teeth and was About 17, looked like she was trying to get buisness,had with her her 4 year old boy Henrique, who was carrying a bag of fake money and asking all the strangers in the placa if they wanted it. One of the sisters of our ...

Think I'll be getting the computer back this afternoon so should be blogging in full technicolor soon!