Daniel calling...

Hello folks. Long time no blog. Life has been a little crazy around here (for a change). I am catching up at work after a couple of weeks of distraction in February. And as Libby has already mentioned, I will be taking over the Programme Manager-ship later next month as well, so I am trying to get ahead, before I get behind again :)

One of the things we are grappling with at the moment, is where best to place our aircraft and pilots. I had a meeting with all our Dodoma-based pilots a couple of weeks ago, and we have another tomorrow night (hopefully to actually make a decision!) It is quite difficult not to fall into the trap of seeing people as resources, and forgetting that they are people. Please pray for me in this; there is a balance somewhere, but it's hard to find. It will be good for the programme as a whole when these things are sorted out and we have some clearer definition of how we will be implementing the strategy that we have devised over the last few months.

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Changes are also afoot at our Church (the Anglican 'cathedral'). We had a 'congregational meeting' a few weeks back, where a bunch of us expressed our unhappiness at the 'Anglicanness' of the services. Things may change...we have been allowed the 3rd Sunday of the month to play with! We shall see how lively things can get (if we have the energy!)

Speaking of the cathedral, the kids got the Jungle Doctor series for christmas, and I have just read them all. Paul White was based at Mvumi Hospital, which is just down the road from us. It was quite strange to read in one of the books about him visiting the cathedral, and describing it to a blind boy. It hasn't changed a bit! It was also quite cool to read about the MAF flights they took.

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That's about us for now. If you want to read about the trans-world Simkins debate about 'The Shack', visit my brother's blog. If you want to read more, you can visit this review.

Over and out.