tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15992295372283556692024-03-05T15:32:33.324-08:00Tony and Laura LewryTony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.comBlogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-9279951932210852362019-06-10T10:45:00.002-07:002019-06-10T10:45:17.540-07:00Adoption cat walk?<br />
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As the dust settles after last weeks “Adoption catwalk show”
in Mato Grosso state, I find myself pondering the strong reactions people had
nationally and internationally to the event which hoped to find families for
the 18 children who were put on display. The event has been likened to a slave
market and concerns about the psychological effect on the children have been
raised.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So what do I think? Would I put these children on display,
in a centre of consumerism, neatly placed between the latest 4k wide screen
smart TV and a beautiful pair of sequined shoes which would be just perfect for
next weekend’s wedding? I don’t think I would. I don’t think I sends the right
message about adoption to the prospective parents or the children who so
desperately need a family. But having said that I also would not be so quick to
judge.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although in the past years we have seen an increase of
prospective parents being willing to adopt older children and sibling groups
there are still far too few families to provide care for all the children on
the adoption register. In fact, there are currently over 5,000 children and
teenagers currently waiting for an adoptive family who may never appear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Having worked in shelters for the past 8 years I believe
that the system is hugely under equipped and underfunded to serve these children
in the way that they deserve. So much more could be done in community
development to prevent the breakdown of families. So much more could be done to
rehabilitate families who hope to have their children returned to them. So much
more could be done to develop the way we look after kids in the care system and
how we prepare them to return to their biological families or as they look
forward to adoption. So would I parade these young lives on a catwalk exposing
their need and fragility, probably not, but it would be even more scandalous to
stand back and do nothing. But for some unknown reason that scandal is not news
worthy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is plain to see in the pages of the gospels that Jesus
poured out his life for the poor and marginalised, and he was indignant when
people kept the children away from him. As Christ’s followers, how are we
pouring out our lives for today’s poor and marginalised? Or are we passing on
the other side in order to avoid facing harsh realities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe that the Church have to follow in the LORDS
footsteps, we need to invest ourselves into the development of communities and
the prevention of family breakdown. We should pour ourselves out to help rehabilitate
and support families as they work towards having their children return home. We
must be willing open our homes to foster and adopt these precious young lives
who desperately need to experience the love of God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I pray that those 18 children would find good loving homes,
I also pray that this Adoption Catwalk scandal would move the Church to act, to
show more of God’s love for the poor and marginalised of our country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-51401173994462566812019-04-27T19:26:00.000-07:002019-04-27T19:56:24.596-07:00Tess' 5th birthday party - Unicorns So <strike>we</strike> I went all out Brazilian style again with Tess' party. As well as loving the excitement on the girls faces as their home is transformed by a balloon spewing monster, I love having an outlet for my creativity that I don't get to use too often being at home! So sorry/not sorry for the OTT unicorn party to celebrate Tess' 5th birthday. Enjoy the pics.<br />
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This last weekend Tony and a team from ReVive spent two days revamping a very run down government home for babies and young children.<br />
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The Staff do what they can but the government are not very easy to get money from even for essentials like medicine and fixing up houses.<br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-85318989617039133952018-02-19T10:57:00.003-08:002018-02-19T11:24:11.985-08:00Education brings JoyI just wanted to share this photo. The children haven't had their new teacher long but last week I needed to get the kids to write their names for a gift to one of the house mums for her birthday. The photo is of Gabriel (7) who was excited to be able to write his name by himself for the first time without help. Thank you to everyone who has expressed an interest in supporting the Charity to employ a teacher. You are making a huge difference. Money has started to come in but we are still some way off our target to permanently employ a teacher. If you would like to help too please contact us.<br />
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<span lang="en-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">The children who have just recently entered the With Open Arms shelter have all come from homes where they have been neglected or worse.</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">They have not had the chance to go to school regularly and are far behind where they should be academically. Some cannot identify numbers or letters.</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">If we put them into a normal classroom with children their own age they wouldn't be able to join in any of the work. There is no special help for them and they would continue to get further and further behind and spend their days frustrated and sad not being able to understand. We have an opportunity to change their future. We have an opportunity to help them learn to read and write.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 119%;">We need £3000 for a 6 month term to hire specialist teacher to educate these precious children. If you would like to give a donation please email us using the email </span><span lang="en-GB" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 119%;">tonyandlauralewry@gmail.com</span><span lang="en-GB" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 119%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 119%;">If you would like to fundraise to help with the cost we would love to hear from you. We can provide photos, stories about the children, work, pictures, certificates and thank you cards to help inspire those raising funds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 119%;"> If you would like to help by doing a fundraising event please contact us on the above email with: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="en-GB" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 119%;">We can then send you some more information about the children and some photos, fundraising ideas and other things you may need to help you begin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-47661518611829519632016-12-20T17:16:00.001-08:002016-12-20T17:16:29.889-08:00Clara's watermelon 1st Birthday! It was a little intense. I had planned this wonderful watermelon themed Big Brazilian first Birthday bash for Clara. Then I got the news that my surgery would be a couple of weeks before it. It was wonderful though and we loved seeing friends come and play and celebrate Clara with us! Here are some of our favourite photos.<br />
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Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-21393358248757797832016-09-06T15:23:00.000-07:002016-09-06T15:33:13.812-07:00Kindness is sharing the other boot<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tess is very much like her father. Full of life, inquisitive, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">outgoing, lots of personality, passionate,
determined... which is sometimes quite challenging in</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the form of a two year old.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But yesterday I was such a proud mama when I
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her world, as
well as ours, has changed dramatically. Her once very peaceful, tropical, haven
of a home has been invaded by 12 very loud, demanding and sometimes unkind,
hurt and vulnerable children. She has had to learn how to control her feelings, how to
have appropriate physical boundaries (yes even at the tender age of two)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but most of all she’s had to learn how to
<b>share</b>. Her toys, her space, the trampoline, and as Tony is working long hours,
and we sometimes see him whilst he is on shift with the kids, she’s had to
learn how to share her precious daddy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shes doing really well but I can see sometimes that it has
been hard for her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But Today when I saw
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> It had been raining very hard all day and I had promised
Tess she could go and jump in muddy puddles with her new pink wellies in the
afternoon. I was watching Tess from a distance whilst trying to explain for the
fourth time to a very small boy why he couldn’t pick Clara up. When I went to
check on Tess I saw this and I saw the pure kindness of her simple act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She
loves her little friend L, and to her sharing the other boot made perfect
sense. Ridiculous kindness, unashamed generosity. Her compassion had made her
uncomfortable. It humbled and challenged
me. When was the last time I gave more than I was comfortable with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dorothy Day, a famous activist, once wrote “ If you have two
coats you have stolen one from the poor.”
It’s very extreme and challenging but Jesus often asked people to look
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NB: I wrote this several days ago but have been too busy (washing mud stains maybe?!!) to post. This wonderful little chap who stole Tess' heart left today. She will miss him lots but we are happy that his situation is resolved. </span></div>
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Many of you may know that our friend, and the director of the charity we now work with, Michael Seelig is seriously ill in hospital. His Kidneys have stopped working. He is undergoing Dialysis to try and restart the kidneys and will have a biopsy to see if they can see what is happening. This is a hard time for the Seelig family. Gabriella, his wife, has had Chikungunya virus recently and not had great health. The Charity is due to start signing contracts and begin taking in children in the next few weeks. Please pray that Michael completely recovers from this. Please pray that his family will be at peace. Please pray for all the practical things that Michael is overseeing as the director of the charity. Please pray for strength that we would be able to support the family, continue with everything that needs doing and not feel overwhelmed by this situation. Thank you.Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-18726239451776526922016-04-05T12:34:00.000-07:002016-04-05T16:32:36.046-07:00Happy 2nd Birtday Tess...Yes I know I spelled it wrong, but we had a great day anyway!! I was so tired after the mountain of baking that at 11pm the night before the big day, spelling was beyond me! (:<br />
Tess is 2! We had a lovely day in our newly grassed garden playing and eating lots of cake. We are so blessed to have friends here that we can call family. Tess is growing into a fun,animal loving, strong, chatterbox. Her favorite food is any kind of fruit, yogurt, porridge and pancakes! She has a good imagination and likes to make tea and coffee for mum and dad, yesterday she had a fox round for tea and she is very good at floating (swimming!). She still loves books and you can often hear her recounting Monkey Puzzle "come come come! It's time I took you home to mum!" or the Gruffalo.. "silly old fox.. don't you know?!" she calls her nappies "whackers" and elephants "eletrunks". We are so blessed.<br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-83248189351135727012016-02-16T10:48:00.001-08:002016-02-16T14:29:14.261-08:00Back to NatureOur new home here in Recife is situated in a very rural location. It is full of wildlife and fruit, and we plan to plant more produce and get animals soon. The last few months has seen Tony doing lots of manual work to get the place ready to become a shelter for girls. In the future we hope to incorporate looking after the land and animals as part of the therapy and development for the kids we will take in. There are so many different fruit trees, many of which don't have an English name. The fruit is too much for Tony to pick it all, but each week he picks enough for the 3 families for the week. We have Banana, Limes, Oranges, Acerola, Star fruit, Mango, Coconut and many others. Tess is becoming a bit of a farm girl and always wants to be outside. Her favourite fruit is "Pitanga" a bitter red fruit that has low branches that she can pick for herself. She is learning which fruits she can and can't eat and shows everything to mum before she eats it! We also have several "interesting" creatures.. many of whom I'm sure you will see in the Animal of the Week blogs in the near distant future.<br />
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Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-49139983078753721452016-02-16T10:17:00.000-08:002016-02-16T10:17:54.140-08:00Settling into a new seasonThe hobbit hole finally livable, the new charity registered as an NGO, arrival of Maggie the puppy and little Clara Beatrice entered the world.. ( with a lot of encouragement!) all since our last blog entry! To say that the last few months have been crazy is an understatement. I think we have all come out the other side without too many scratches.. we are a little sleep deprived still and these hard times always make us miss our family and friends more, but we are grateful to God for all that he has done, all he has provided and for being our Rock through the manic-ness!<br />
Here are just a few photos to sum up the last 3 months! We will be writing a newsletter soon so look out for that! <br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-26946345874204443682015-11-29T05:32:00.000-08:002015-11-29T05:36:03.700-08:00the final push! Sorry about the absence of anything for a while! We have been busy with the renovations so we can live here with the new charity. The baby is due any day now and other than a few snagging jobs and boxes to unpack we are pretty much settled in! watch this space for baby arrival news!<br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-69491778745697194192015-09-27T08:06:00.000-07:002015-09-27T08:06:35.484-07:00Animal of the weekLook what we found at the farm where we will be living soon!<br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-61143356127631000252015-09-27T07:58:00.004-07:002015-09-27T07:58:43.945-07:00 Founding of the new Charity! Exciting day yesterday when we officially signed to start the new charity With Open Arms.<br />
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With moving to a new property we also need to renovate a
basement so we have somewhere to live! The basement area is about 7.5m by 7.5m but as it is a basement it has lots of tricky features! Work is to start
imminently on refurbishing this space so it can become our 2 bedroom apartment
home before baby number 2 arrives in the beginning of December. It will need a new bathroom, a kitchen
fitted, tiling, partition walls as well as walls plastering and painting! The
total refurbishment with cost about £6500 and if you would like to help in
anyway making this possible we would be so happy! Please email for more info. We hope to have
all this done in three weeks time so watch this space and FB to see the
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We are so excited about the next chapter of our lives here
in Brazil. A group of us who have been working together for some years now have
set up a new charity called “With Open Arms”. This charity will be exclusively
focussed on serving children in need and their families. Our first big goal is
to open a girls’ home. Currently in our district of 144,000 people there is no
provision of residential care for girls, but there is such a great need!
Tragically one of the girls we worked with on the streets was murdered after
demanding that her customer pay. She was 14 and her life was worth £3. This new
chapter comes with many new challenges but we are excited to be working with a
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So after 4 years, our time here in YWAM Recife is coming to
an end. These past years have been filled with amazing times for us to see
children grow and developed in ways they never thought possible. We have had
the honour to see kids come off of the streets and live in Hope house and back
into their families. We have seen teenagers in Project Jose turn into men,
taking responsibility for their lives, working responsibly; take vocational
courses and even going to university.
This time has been full of heart ache and challenge as we have seen some
children making terrible choices, and we have known 2 of these young lives come
to a tragic end. Working here has taken us through some extreme highs and
lows! We have learnt so much about the culture,
language and ways of doing things here in Recife and we are immensely grateful
to YWAM for all they have invested in us and all the opportunities they have
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This amazing bunch of people came to serve here on the YWAM
Recife base for two weeks. It was an awesome time and they were such a blessing
to everyone they met and especially us. They painted, cleaned, visited
families, favelas and streets, played football, worked in the boys house and taught crafts to local
ladies.We had great times of fun together too. Bridge team you made us proud!
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Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-67688100472115204672015-04-13T16:18:00.001-07:002015-04-13T16:18:38.771-07:00Our talented Visitor!In March we had the pleasure to receive Craig, a talented film editor who wanted to come and use his skills to highlight some of the problems faced here in Brazil, and to film about some of the work we do here to help.<br />
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It was an intense week of filming and trying to give Craig a feel for Brazil. We got to know Craig more which was great. One of the stars of the films was Beto who was in his element! ( he wants to be famous!) the films also star the wonderfully cute Tess. We filmed several films and they will be released slowly over the next few months to be played on every Facebook page, Church big screen, school, Business staff room that we can get it in! So watch this space!<br />
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P.S A huge thank you to Craig for all his hard work and his family for allowing him to come! We really appreciate you and think you are fab!Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-10760682330747780842015-04-13T15:38:00.004-07:002015-04-13T16:08:23.562-07:00The Project Jose Boys HouseYou may remember that a while back we talked about the house we wanted to build for the Project Jose boys. Boys who had to leave Hope House because they had turned 18, but were not ready to live independently yet. The house would accommodate boys from Project Jose, enabling them to live at a reduced rate whilst finishing their schooling and working part time within the project.<br />
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Thank you to all who have prayed and given to this house enabling the boys of Project Jose to be supported as they become independent adults.<br />
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Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-58526637096500136162015-04-13T15:15:00.003-07:002015-04-13T16:06:50.192-07:00Big Brazilian Birthday!Last week Teresa turned One! We had a fairly normal day as it was a work day. We did manage a few presents and a candle in a Mango (.. my oven was broken and she likes Mango.. so why not?!)<br />
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Then on Saturday we had the big Brazilian Birthday! Brazilian custom is to celebrate the first birthday with a big party, like an 18th or something! So we decided to be Brazilian a go a bit bigger than we would have normally. It was nice to celebrate surviving our first year of being mum and dad to Tess! We made it a Rainbow theme and Tess loved all the colours. It was a lovely afternoon and so nice to see all of our friends who have been with us and supported us on this journey as we became parents.<br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-87837647735617554642015-01-27T09:08:00.002-08:002015-02-01T07:29:35.992-08:00Community Building- Emergency Repair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week Tony was working out in Recife for 2 days. He would come home filthy and smelling quite bad.. nothing unusual..<br />
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It was a busy week so we didn't a lot of opportunities to talk about the work that he was doing..so from our conversations all that I understood was that he was mending a floor, and something about a family living over the river, oh and that he came home thirsty and hungry (and a little smellier than usual!) <br />
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That's nice.. I thought to myself. <br />
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I didn't realise until he showed me the video what he had actually been doing..<span style="color: red;"> <a href="https://vimeo.com/117909179"><b>Click to see the video</b></a></span><br />
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They were helping a family that we have a good relationship with. The street team have been working with this family for a while with a long term goal of helping them improve their living and economic situation.<br />
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But was an emergency situation as the level of the river was going to rise drastically in the next month and somebody had stolen the supporting beams from underneath their house and it was becoming very dangerous for the children.<br />
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It's was a difficult project due to their environment and they worked really hard. It was hot, dirty and smelly and the tide only gave them a few hours to work on the structure beneath the house. There was a lot of balancing and being careful with footings ( and tools) so as not to fall into the sewage below. But I think Tony and Daniel (the carpenter) enjoyed the challenge. It was also was great to see one of the Hope House boys helping with them too.<br />
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There are plans to help other families in similar situations.<br />
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NB- Please feel free to share this video. The Video is available to download through the link in Vimeo<br />
Thanks!<br />
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<br />Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-56448699290973672802015-01-11T15:38:00.000-08:002015-01-11T15:38:54.527-08:00one of Those moments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a Thursday afternoon. Tony had come home from work a
few minutes early so was sat writing emails and I was sat on the floor
entertaining Tess or pulling bits of fluff from her mouth, I can’t remember.
The loud thumping on the door indicated that Beto was in need of some attention.
He was in the middle of a Youth Camp type thing here on the base, so we hadn’t
been seeing him as regularly that week. He came in and threw himself on the Sofa..so
sprawled out that his feet almost touch the table on the other side of our
small apartment. We chat for a while and we have a Coke together. Tess was
playing with the syringes that I use to give her medicine in and Beto asked me
why she had to take medicine. I explained her problem with reflux and maybe an
allergy that we are getting tests done for.
He was quiet for a minute and then asked if he could pray for her. I
told him that would be great. He got
down on the floor and prayed for her. It’s such a tough process with Beto. He is
hard work and sometimes disrespectful, he is ungrateful and demanding on time
and energy. But seeing him wanting the best for Tess was one of those good
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Tony and Laura Lewryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418735465480046284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599229537228355669.post-16829258423886342552014-12-20T04:35:00.001-08:002014-12-20T04:35:20.242-08:00Nutmeg and Orange infused Butter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Monica isn’t going to know that it’s not nutmeg flavoured butter.
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I don’t want to be rude but she piles her plate high with
everything all mixed in. Rice with gravy, turkey with beans.. Christmas dinner/
Brazilian barbecue carnage. She has
lived in a slum or on the street for most of her life so, understandably, food
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So when Tony rings me from the hospital at 11pm (another story) to ask if I would
mind making the nutmeg and orange infused butter for the Hope House Christmas party
tomorrow ( for which Monica would be in attendance) .. it wasn't just the
nutmeg that I started to grind. </div>
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In my defense it had been a long day, Tess is
ill, I'm a hormonal wreck with an earache and it’s so flippin hot. I’d spent my
evening tidying up and trying to cram cupboards with mess to give myself a
feeling of more tranquility and less clutter over the festive period. But in trying to cram everything
in with tetris style agility I had left myself feeling frustrated and it had
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I was far from Tranquil.</div>
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Also on my mind was the
list of things that had to be done for the Christmas service which I thought I was
able to organise and have a small family like affair just to make it feel a bit
more Christmasy.. but I forgot that I'm not like that and I want it to be
perfect.. so there is a manger, up lighting, carols in 3 languages and all the base
children in teatowel-esque style costumes entering from stage right and whatnot.</div>
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So being asked to make orange scented nutmeg butter at 11pm whilst
pouring the boiling water into the bottles and realising that I had run out of
the new superduper-free-from-everything milk that we are now supposed to feed
Tess with, made me a little more than frustrated.</div>
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MONICA WILL NOT KNOW THAT
HER TURKEY HAS NOT BEEN BASTED WITH ORANGE AND NUTMEG BUTTER...</div>
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But as I was
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Monica might not know, but I need to do it anyway. I know it’s a cheesy.. but I’ll say it
anyway.. do it as if it were Jesus..</div>
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If it were Jesus I was making the smelly butter for I would
probably go and milk the cow and churn it myself or something wouldn't I? Monica might not know but I need to do it
anyway.. I need to give her my best. ( and it is quite tasty really!) and I
know all that stuff about doing things in the quiet etc and not shouting about when
you're helping others or whatever a fairy dies or it doesn't count if you talk
about it.. well I just published it on the web so I'm probably not going to
gain any God brownie points or
whatever!! </div>
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But that's not why I'm doing
it. I'm doing it now because I want to bless Monica and give her the best I can..
even though she won’t know what on earth it is. </div>
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Ramble over, butter made. Goodnight!</div>
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