October 2000

Tuesday 31st October 2000 08:30 hours

Fax received from Tanz today - 31/10/00 10:09 hours

Everyone is well

The rainy season has started but little rain has fallen so far - although raining as they faxed this through after
a night of light rain

'Tracey would like to say thank you to family and friends for the letters she has been receiving, its been good
to hear how things are going back home, also that although she misses her family she is doing very well
here, trying to learn a little Swahili everyday. The children are keeping her busy teaching them new English
songs - they are doing very well!'

The siphon is still giving up from time to time but Paul has so far managed to re-prime it

The chickens are doing well and Bethany will one day be self sufficient in eggs!

Fares is considering growing rice but will need either rain (plenty) or the siphon to work reliably.

Other News

Anyone for a trip out in November - there's still time to make the arrangements?

Monday 23rd October 2000 11:30 hours

Fax received from Tanz today - 23/10/00 11:12 hours

The family are doing fine although some have developed coughs and colds due to the start of the rainy
season - though more rain needed.

"Tracey is doing fine, working hard in different areas at the family. She send her greetings to every one of
you".

Still problems with the siphon - it has stopped 3 times since Brian left.

The latest expense figures are now on the web site for August and September 2000

Other News

Christopher Gaster is to re visit Bethany in January 2001. Christopher is still looking at possible long term
work. He will be accompanied by Maria De Freitas and Brian Bancroft.

Samantha and Mark McVey are visiting in February 2001.

'Happiness' video available together with a 20 question quiz. Please email for copies

Monday 16th October 2000 20:00 hours

Brian Bancroft arrived home at Manchester airport 2hours and 20mins late on Saturday 14th October 12:18
hours

Brian reports the siphon is still working ok.

Tracey is settling into the work and learning the laguage!

Brian met with a young woman by the name of Jilly Pearce who is from N. Ireland and who presently works
as a teacher with Phil and Jo. Jilly is interested in helping at Bethany and intends to accompany Phil and Jo
when next they visit.

A reporter from the Wall Street Journal called at Bethany and had a long talk with Fares and Grace about the
work done by Bethany and has promised to send the article if he is able to use it in the Journal.

Brian asks us to pray for the Family and for rain as they are late in arriving this season.

Other News:

We are in the process of including a little video footage of each child on the same page as the details (DOB,
likes, ambitions etc.). This will take some time and will be done in the order they appear on the page starting
top left 'meet the children' page.

The video downloads are in two formats i.e. real video - poor quality but fast download, mpeg video - good
quality - slow to download. The choice is yours!

All for now.

Wednesday 11th October 2000 23:30 hours

Fax received from Tanz today - 11/10/00 16:40 hours

Everyone well - other than tummy bug suffered by Brian and Tracey (now recovered)

Siphon re-primed ok and now working 10 hours a day filling the water tank and watering the crops in the
afternoon.

Tracey is sorting out the clothes container and ejecting the wildlife

Fares and Grace have had a couple of days away from home.

Nuriyati, Nyamarige and Ali had their brithday party last Friday - a good time was had by all!

Home News.

Next Prayer/news meeting will be Saturday 28th October 10am till 12 noon at Abbey resource centre, 188-
190 Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, Lancs tel 01254 399299

Novembers Prayer/news meeting will be incorporated into our next Information day which will be
Saturday 2nd December 10am till 3pm at Abbey resource centre.

Video on trial. If your computer has windows 95 and onwards you might like to download a few seconds of
Video - just click on 'meet the children' then click on Nuriyati and when the large photo has downloaded
together with the the other information (DOB, likes, ambition etc.) you will see 'Video of Nuriyati' click on this
and an mpeg file will automatically download and a box will open and you should see Nuriyati say ' my name
is Nuriyati Swalehe'. Let me know if it works and also if it doesn't work.

Wednesday 4th October 2000 17:30 hours

Fax received from Tanz today - 04/10/00 12:18 hours

Everyone well.

Brian and Tracey arrived at Bethany 6pm Monday night, having been met by Fares and Ibrahim at the airport.

Dr. Misambo's wife has a new baby boy - born Monday 2nd October.

Everyone likes the colour poster with the pictures of all the children on.

Regina is now Tracey's room mate since she has now officially left school.

Brian is working hard to re-prime the well and is digging a deeper channel to submerge the pipe as it goes
into the lake. He hopes to have it working by the end of today.

Tracey sends her love to her Mum and Dad and asks them to send a photo of themselves as she forgot to
bring one and all the children want to see what they look like! She says she is being 'well looked after'.

Brian sends his love to his wife and children.

Other News:

The new video is now ready and about 50 copies are available. Part one tells the story of a girl named
Happiness who lives in the village and has friends at Bethany. The title is 'A day in the life of Happiness'
(17mins). Included with the video is a quiz consisting of 20 questions - the answers are all available from the
story on the video. The second part of the video (13min) is of the children singing various songs and hymns
including: O Lord my God, Thank you Jesus, Father Abraham, Cast your Burdens, etc. etc. If you would like
a copy please send an email with your postal address.

Don't forget the A3 colour posters are now available - email with your address if you would like copies.

More and more people are using the website and enquiries are coming in from as far away as America (a
little heard of ex-colony situated over to the left of G.B.) from people wanting to know more and the possibility
of sharing in the work.

Please email us with questions/suggestions and forgive any attempts at humour.