A year of great blessings, satisfying activities, milestones and events has flown by quickly. As we try to recapture some of the key highlights we are overwhelmed at the goodness of our Lord Jesus, our families and our friends, this year. Recently we were encouraged when a substantial financial gift was received to reduce our house mortgage.

In April/May we travelled to the South Island for 2 weeks at the invitation of Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship to speak at 6 chapters in 9 days. It was our first semi-holiday in years and we enjoyed doing a little Morris family tree research in-between meetings.

NOEL

A few months later Noel was back in Dunedin to video the FGBMFI National Convention in June. Some large churches now have their own video systems, so we have concentrated on many smaller seminars and conferences this year, including arranging the NZ schedule for Don & Katie Fortune.

This year some funeral directors in the Waikato have requested recording of funerals and this has helped our finances and are less effort to record.

Noel recently celebrated his 65th birthday, but as Superannuation is not enough to live on, retirement is not an option yet.

EDITH

For Edith it has been a year of some physical decline. In May she spent 2 weeks at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Rotorua for reassessment and therapy. The outcome is to now use a power wheelchair. This limitation has not prevented her from continuing her various activities.

She was in a TV1 Attitude programme, was interviewed on Radio NZ about her own radio programme "Talking Up Disability" and on Radio Rhema about polio.

Her weekly radio shows on Community Radio Hamilton are broadcast by radio to audiences in the Waikato, and globally via the internet.

LYNDA & KEVIN

Our daughter Lynda, son-in-law Kevin and 2 sons have been in NZ for 6 years now and we are grateful to have them live nearby and to be part of their lives.

Our grandsons continue to be a source of joy and fun, and we are proud of them. Kevin and Lynda continue in the same jobs, and for Kevin a surprise trip to America was a hightlight of his year.

ISAIAH

Isaiah (19) works with Kevin and is quite involved in Church youth groups and his band "Last Ride Home". He was water-baptised in May.

JONAS
Jonas (14) has had his first year at high school and enjoys sport and his school rock band. He sometimes joins Isaiah's band as electric guitarist. He won "up and coming guitarist" in a local competition.