Some very blessed ladies

Today they guys went to the hospital to see Mirlan. I did not have funds come in for the fridge or cleaning supplies so we have them the new fridge we had just put based for the Kashar , and hopefully we can replace it next week before guests come . 

They were very thankful and send an official letter thanking us for the support.
 

There are so many needs at this hospital  And they have helped us with with a couple of our boys .  We would really like to help them with another fridge and some cleaning suplies . 

Now for those who missed it Baktagul is having some difficulty in Turkey. The cost of a visa to work there has gone up by 1000% . And since she can not work yet she is running out of the food money we sent her .  So we are looking for $500 to help her . 

The tea party at the Kashar was an incredible success.  They were each given an antique tea cup from our home in Canada .  They were all so excited and blessed. 

Some fancy sandwiches served with their tea.   I bought some tiramisu cakes I was going to serve for deseart , but they did not make it up the hill in one piece.  I put them all in a bowl and stored them up and let it sit over night, then scooped them into little bowles and topped them with plums from the farm orchard... They all loved it , then insisted one the recipe... 

One of my moms cups from her engagement party 67 years ago

Baktagul is asking for help.

We just got a message from Baktagul.  She is working on her visa to stay and work in Turkey. She has run into a snag.  The Visa's have gone up in price from around $40 to now as much as $600... She wrote to ask if we could help her with another $400 USD to help her cover this .  She knows that I don't have it, so this time she is asking you ! .. if you can help with this pleaseet me know .  We have been able to hold this off until the end of the month to give us time to find a sponsor. 

 

 Thank you for your consideration .    She just wrote back and asked if maybe we could get an extra $100 because she is out of food. 

Ready for the tea party

We are excited to be getting ready for the Victorian tea tomorrow.  We found a sponsor for this event. 

Julie has made up little gift bags for each lady and I will make the meal.  

We were looking for a sponsor for a refrigerator as well, but that has not come in yet .. so as soon as the tea party is over, the guys will come up and get our Kashar fridge and bring it with them to the hospital 

 

I think the hospital needs a fridge more them us,and we don't have any large bookings for a few weeks so this will give us time to replace this one. So the opertunity to give is still there , buy now it will be for a fridge for the Kashar.

Things to come .

 Many of you know Mirlan , He has been with us qong time .  Eight months ago he got mad about something and left the farm.  Since that time he has spireled and needs help. He finally returned, lost a lot of weight and not making much sence.  We have been able to get him into a hospital to get him the help he needs , and hopefully stabelize him to be able to return to us.  So here is the ask as there often is one .  The hospital I asking us if we can get them a small refrigerator and some cleaning supplies .  We will need $150 usd for each so a total of $300.  We are hoping to go see him on Tuesday if they can stabilize him by then . 

On Monday we are going to be having a tea party for some of the Kyrgyz ladies from Bishkek.  We have some tea cups we brought with us from Canada . They will each be given a tea cup along with a story to go with them . Of course we will serve a full English tea for lunch.  

We are looking for so worw for this event.  It will cost $15 for each of the 10 ladies .. this includes meals and transportation and a small gift bag with tea, honey a tea cup and a few other little things .. we would love help with this if anyone wants to be a part of this . 

To update on the water , we now have running town water just 6 feet from the house , so this is a great sign of things to come . 

Gardening day

The planting is coming along well. Under this tarp. There is drip irrigation hose that will be attached to the big water barrel. 

The barrel can be filled from our truck when it's not busy out in the village delivering water to those without water. 

Nick, Ruslan and I were able to get enough of the driveway filled in at the guest house so that we have been able to re open . 

Sergey stopped at the baby orphanage and paid the contractor for putting in the new well...  He said it was so deep that he could hear the guy working down the well but could not see him. 

We have started to get the planters ready.   We are going up to the Kashar for supper, then will plant them all tonight when it's cooler out 

Julie and I will be arriving back to Canada on June 3, and on June 6th we are heading  to Jamaica with a team from our church.  We will be working at a summer camp and rebuilding a community chicken coop.  As well we will be building a relationship with a family there that has a conection to other missionaries from our church.  

If you are in the Norwood area we have 500 ml bottles of our gogi berry honey from Kyrgyzstan for sale.  The cost is $40 a bottle with 100% of the proceeds going to support the projects we will be doing.
 

Yesterday was a special day .

 Yesterday was an exciting trip out to the end of the valley. we were blessed to have lunch with Farm Alina .  She is doing great , and has been married for 7 years now .  It was so good to catch up.   

We stopped along the way to hand out Samaritan's purse boxes.  This was such a big part of our history.  Every year we  would pack them with our kids and then our kids school and our church have been depots to collect and organize them for shipping .

Now seeig the joy on the kids faces when they receive them.

Every child is registered first before they receive their gift.

definitely a special day 

This morning Nick and I started filling in the trench in front of the guest house .  We have managed to get enough for a small entrance so we can reopen the guest house now.

Julie is working on some gift bags for the Ladies.  She is going to have a High tea, and give them each a china tea cup along with honey, tea, a package of seeds, and a gift card.  how fun is that. 

Water, planting, vitamins and food for the seniors.

Lots of work going on but I love that we can always fit in a coffee break in the cafe.

Tanya has been busy back serving her seniors. 

She has had her hands full with the new baby but it's great that she can get back out with her people 

They were all happy to see her as well 

Acel has been making the rounds giving out the prenatal vitamins.

Today we got the landscaping cloth down and have started planting the seeds .

Tomorrow we will start planting Tomatoes , peppers and egg plants in The cloth. 

 The boys are still working on the water .. so much work. There are trenches everywhere . 

We are still delivering water regularly to those without.

We stopped at Red river orphanage and picked up some new crafts for the gift shop .

Well coffee is almost done and time to get back to work.