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Mission Partner - CMS/Mid Africa Ministry

LATEST NEWS FROM THE WOODINGS - CMS Sept 2010

Hi guys Just a quick update on us.

We are still enjoying summer type weather in Kampala BUT with lots of rain!

Nick has been coping with his new role as Acting Vice Chancellor of the University which includes encouraging staff to remain with him and not follow the previous VC to another University - thankfully most staff are staying. He is also involved in advising students where to put their energies in dissertations etc, he is steering them to the slums.

Kate is still looking for more work to do, but it may be around the corner! Please pray for wisdom in decision making and work, life balance! She enjoyed preaching at a children's service recently at church, about 500 children and adults in the congregation.

Ben and Anna have made new friends at school and caught up with old ones. It is nice that they are both now in the Senior School.

We all seem to have a lot more energy than this time last year.

With our love

Kate Nick Ben and Anna

Nick and Kate Wooding, our new CMS mission partners spent a weekend at BFPC in October 08 and stayed with the Tomes family. Their shared many moving stories and showed slides of their previous time in Uganda. They also spoke of the calling to go out again next year to bring medical and spiritual care to many sufferers of AIDS, Malaria, Cholera etc and to share the Gospel at the local churches out there. Nick and Kate asked for our prayerful and financial support and will be in touch with us regarding the date of their journey out to Uganda and their progress once they have settled there again. The collections at both the 9am and 10.30am services were for their CMS work in Uganda and a total of ... was raised. Please do go on supporting them in both ways and remembering their children in your prayers as well. They are Ben and Anna. Kate gave us a quick tip to remember their names i.e. by thinking of a Banana!'

Nick and Kate Wooding are preparing to return to East or mid Africa having spent 6 years from 1997-2003 working in Kiwoko Hospital in Luweero, Uganda as CMS mission partners. Following that time Nick had a book published, There’s a Snake in my Cupboard: The Continuing Story of Kiwoko Hospital. Nick is currently working as a GP in Oxford as well as doing a Msc in Public Health. He will work in Africa as a hospital and community worker as well as developing a training centre for qualified doctors in community medicine. Kate will be involved in managing HIV/AIDS work. She recently completed her MA in Humanitarian and Development Practice and her dissertation was based at Kiwoko, researching the children there taking HIV medicines and their ability to do this every day. Before going to Kiwoko they also spent 2 years at All Nations College doing Biblical and Cross Cultural Studies. Since returning to the UK in 2003 they have been studying for MAs to develop their skills to be more effective overseas. Nick and Kate have 2 children, Ben 11 and Anna 8. Although it will be a major change in their lives they are happy to go. It is hoped that they will attend St Andrews, Turi, a Christian boarding school in the west of Kenya.