- The Finnie family in Blighty, December 2021
- Dean and Paula pastor The Gathering together
- The Gathering
- Baptisms at The Gathering
- Preparing to serve at The Gathering's Soup Kitchen
- Soup Kitchen Welcome To 2022 lunch
- Serving hands - the heart of The Gatheirng
- Thankful Thursdays
- HOPE Home Based Care Team
- Gathering Ground
- Staying fit as a family
- The Helderberg - The prettiest of the mountains we face
Paddling Pool
Cluster Maps
Hadeda Ibis
The Hadeda Ibis (Bostrychia hagedash) is a regular over our house and can usually be heard long before they're seen as they make a right racket. However, they are spectacular birds and it's a real privilege to have one stop on your house like this.
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Home Based Care
Chris Nissen Update
Comet McNaught
Family Fun
First Day At School
Family Fun Day
Last Few Photos From Grandad's Visit
Daddy & Joel exploring the rock pools
Saddam's Death
Sean Got Married
Enjoy the photos...
Sean and his best men, Cameron & Jan
Fun With Grandad
Tyrone Update
As you can see from the photos of before and after, the op' has made a big difference to Tyrone and before you ask, no the surgeon didn't knock his teeth out!
La Petite Ferme
New Year's Eve
We had a lot of fun on New Year's Eve which was mainly about the kids and having fun with them. We did the same as last year and allowed Joel to stay up a bit later and watch a film with us. This year we watched Hook which had Joel spellbound! He started watching it in his Simba costume but had to change into his Pirate costume quite early on!
Wilderness
Boxing Day
Christmas Day
Sport Quotes 2006
If sport is not your thing, just move along and don't moan!
"She shouldn't be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? If you start bringing in women you have big problems. It is tokenism for the politically correct idiots."
Luton manager Mike Newell blames assistant referee Amy Rayner for the 3-2 defeat by QPR.
Happy Christmas
What better reason could there be to celebrate?
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Lots of love
Dean, Paula, Joel &Eli
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CNP & Picnic
We've been really busy since they arrived and yesterday afternoon we went into Chris Nissen to meet some of our friends. This is always an emotional time, but yesterday was especially so as Vissy was really poorly, but seeing Eli brightened her up incredibly.
Eli's First Birthday
He's been and continues to be a very special blessing to us as a family and we thank God for bringing him into our lives. Joel & Eli really do adore each other which is brilliant.
Christmas Hampers
One of the things that we've been really busy with recently was the organisation and distribution of food hampers to our church folk in Chris Nissen. The planning for the hampers was immense as we received physical donations of food and cash donations.
Family Fun
Joel is very very excited as he now only has ONE sleep until Grandad arrives!
Eli & Mummy
Mission Incredible
Paddling Pool
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Afternoon's And Coffee Spoons
Nobody has ever left disappointed! During the day, Eli had a good go at demolishing a huge slab of his birthday cake and made a wonderful mess in the process. Whilst Joel helped Daddy to decorate the Christmas tree.
Eli's First Birthday Party
Table Mountain
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We've circled our house in the bottom right.
Nose Picking Shepherd
Joel's Last Day @ Twinkle Tots
Funny Old Weekend
Bible Study Social
Monkeys & Mountains
Home Based Care
Our planned Home Based Care program seems to be gathering pace without our actually doing very much about it. On Friday we had a call regarding old bedding from a local hotel which is replacing theirs. So Dean went into Cape Town and was able to load the bakkie with a huge quantity of sheets, towels, flannels etc. which is an amazing blessing. We just need to find somewhere to store it all!
Strawberry Picking
World Aids Day
Part of the difficulty in posting on this is that here in South Africa things are far from straightforward. Firstly, we have a government which is in denial with the nations approach to HIV/AIDS treatment, & awareness raising being overseen by a health minister who is at best laughable and at worst downright objectionable! She is know as Dr. Beetroot or as the Minister of Garlic as she favours just about any treatment except ARV's. Recently, she was interviewed at the launch of a new 'traditional' medicine in a rural area, but the medicine hadn't even been licensed by the relevant authorities. This is all very frustrating and leaves one feeling very marginalised when trying to get ARV's and counseling for those who need it.
Cell Social
Washing Machine
A Proud Moment!
We got a few looks in church as Dad was also in his Palace shirt (a birthday present from Jo) so we were resplendent in our 'red & blue'.
That's my boy!
We have some good photos to show for a non-event weekend...
Running & Running!
Emyezweni Christmas Party
As usual the Christmas party was a lot of fun, Debs, Rach' and the staff really do put a huge amount of work into it and the whole event is brilliant.
The photos tell their own story, so we hope you enjoy them..
Mountain Biking
Joel & Eli
Kids And Crane
Chris Nissen - Making Progress?
Home Based Care Training
Eli At 11 Months
Eli is 11 months old today. Wow, where did the time go?
We can't really express what a sheer bundle of joy he is and what a blessing he is to our family. Joel simply adores Eli and that is clearly reciprocal!
We look forward to Eli being able to walk and keep up with Joel, as it looks like they'll have a lot of fun together (as long as Eli leaves Joel's train set alone).
Here's an update on how the garden is looking now that Spring is over and summer is allegedly with us (we say allegedly as it's been raining for 2 days, but it is very warm). The grenadilla bush has simply continued churning out its fruit so no complaints there. It's a pleasure to watch different plants come into bloom at different times. The Aloe Vera has finished flowering and now looks quite plain, whilst other bushes and trees are looking fantastic.
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