News Update - 1st week May

During early May God provided us with a small group of workers for repair and upkeep of the house. With willing and capable hands and God's blessing it's surprising what can be achieved in a week! The rotten part of a roof rafter was successfully replaced together with a number of broken tiles; a new velux window installed; a large number of window shutters repaired and painted; the lower section of the front outside wall re-painted, and wall tiles removed and re-set in one of the bathrooms. All the cost of this has been wonderfully met and our workers have set their heart on coming back as soon as possible to undertake further work! Praise God with us for this provision.

There are also indications that it's God's time for work to really go ahead seriously on the development of new rooms in our large roof space. Envisaged is a family apartment for staff and additional guest bedrooms to effectively double our capacity. A local architect has made a feasibility review with costings and has advised us that we could be eligible for a substantial grant designed to encourage village development in our part of Germany. He is following this up for us. We are praying that if this is truly of God He will provide the financial means to make a start with the drawing up of plans to be passed by the local council. We are encouraged to sense this is God's purpose by three definite enquiries by church groups of larger numbers than we can at present accommodate for 2012! And also by the fact we have experienced builders and workers offering to undertake voluntary work for us.