| We were very happy indeed when
Jennie, Lottie and Robert visited the us for ten days in August. They
arrived on the first day of our mid-semester break (Sat. August 8th).
Jennie came to Sri Lanka in December 2006 and had been able to persuade her
children that it was a very good place to see and experience. We were
delighted to see them and to share something of life in Sri Lanka with two young people and
to find out how they felt about it. Here we are pictured outside of our
house Friday August 14th 2009 |
The Methodist Conference took place in August (19th-24th) in Colombo.
This year the Rev. Donald Ker, the President and Secretary of the Irish
Methodist Conference represented the British and Irish Conferences.
Here we see him, outside Kollupytia Methodist Church, with his
wife, Sandra, and the President of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka, the
Rev. Ebenezer Joseph. Donald had preached at the Conference service on
Sunday August 23rd 2009 at Rev. Ebe has nearly completed his five year
Executive Presidency so this was his last conference.
The
TCL
Principal, Rev. Dr. Jebanesan (Jebi) was appointed to the five year
executive post of President beginning in
August
2010. We wish him well. |
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Twenty First birthdays are a big event in Sri Lanka too.
Here we see Berith and Emeth, the children of our dear next door neighbours
here, the Rev. Karunasekara and his wife Jancy, as they celebrate Berith's big day.
Part of the tradition - also at weddings - is to feed cake directly into
the mouths of loved ones. Here Emeth is tidying up after Berith's
insertion of a piece of thoroughly iced cake. Rosemary had led the worship
service in the home which had begun the celebrations. Monday
August 31st 2009
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The Lawrences were Mission Partners from the CSI (India)
sponsored by the Methodist Church of Britain. As such they have
now left TCL to go to Britain (based in Birmingham) for a two month
(Sept 14th - Nov 13th 2009) furlough/rest and to give various talks
and services Sorting out the visas took a while and was rather
worrying for everyone, but in the end the whole family were granted the
visas they needed. This picture of Felicita, Felix, Malar and Lawrence
was taken in our house after a meal on their penultimate night at TCL,
Saturday September 12th 2009. We hope that rest and
fun forms the largest part of their time in Britain.
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