Praise the Women!

I was recently blessed to go on a quick short trip to NZ this last week to sort out some things for my husband's campaign. On the plane back to Tonga, I had time to reflect on the short trip and this feeling of praise, honour and enormous gratefulness welled up in my heart for the many wonderful women I had met on the trip who had helped tremendously in getting things done for this campaign. Without them, it would be sheer hard slog and labour!

This feeling then overflowed to encompass all the women I know and have met, many who do so much behind the scenes and may not be in the frontline, yet without their tireless work, support, commitment, dedication and loyalty..... much of what is seen on the frontline would not be possible!

So this blog is simply to say.... PRAISE THE WOMEN - because without all of us, it would be a boring, harder-slog world..... and probably an emptier world as reproduction would be pretty darn impossible!!!

And all the men say..... AMEN! LOL.

Happy Days...

Yesterday we celebrated Eden's 3rd birthday. It was an awesome day and has been a weekend full of just celebrating her life and even just spending quality time with our kids! So proud of Chizzy and Omega for taking on the responsibility of organizing her decorations, games and little party things. It's awesome seeing our kids grow up and I am loving who they are and who they are choosing to be. Even at this young age they are making choices and seeing things that I know for sure I didn't choose or see at their age.... nor even at an older age. Thank God for His grace and wisdom.

Life in Tonga

It's been 4 months now since we've moved to Tonga to live. We're loving it here - especially the challenges of a different culture, mentality, language and dying to self (my neverending process! Lol). We have been really blessed living here, just seeing God move in this nation during this crucial time of change and transition. We have been praying for this whole transition to take place exactly as He desires, and exactly as He wills. We have been absolutely humbled by Him and His ways in this nation.

We have Lynette from Auckland and Josh. S. from Brisbane here at the moment. Josh is here to stay, and Lynette will fly back next week. But we're launching ICON forums tonight, and there is a great sense of excitement and anticipation as we step out to run this programme for the youth here. Definitely everybody that we have spoken to has confirmed the need for this programme to help with all the youth issues here in Tonga. Very exciting!