Where we’re ‘at’

Another question we are frequently asked at the moment is: “Where are you based?” The answer to this is really: “All over the place!” We are currently doing a bit of a tour of the UK seeing lots of friends and family. At the moment we are at the Wycliffe Centre near High Wycombe for a week in order for Matt to learn about his role in recruitment, which will start in September. I am doing some Mbeya Literacy work long-distance, preparing for presentations and spending time with a good friend here on centre. This weekend we head into London to stay with some more friends then next week we are on to Sheffield for a couple of weeks to catch up with many, many special friends and some important family members. We are very much looking forward to this time of sharing and catching up on all that’s happened in the last 3 years!

So, it’s a busy time, a fun time and a time with lots of transitions. We worked out how many places we will be moving in the next couple of months and it didn’t bear thinking about! It is a potentially tiring time because of this. I am getting used to not having a base and to enjoying this varied lifestyle but it doesn’t come naturally to me. I know that it is something that is fun and relatively easy to do at this time in our lives, however. Also, I take great comfort in the fact that my home is in heaven!

From September we will be based at the Wycliffe Centre when Matt will take on a role in recruitment for a couple of months. This is where the certainties end though! At the moment the answer to a lot of questions seems to be: “Don’t know!’ We aren’t sure when exactly we are heading back to East Africa (though we anticipate it being sometime in the first half of 2011), I am not sure what my role will be from September onwards or even what it will be when we get to Uganda. This could be unsettling if I let it be (and it certainly is in my nature to like having things planned out!) but I am learning to ‘go with the flow’. The challenge now for me is to get the right balance of proactively seeking out the answers whilst trusting that the answers will make themselves known when the time is right!