•⁠ ⁠amazing birthday. Presents in the bed with June helping to open. Balloons at the breakfast table, and I believe their is a steak-and-no-veggies braai this evening 🫶🫂. It has been a huge joy to be with Steve and Shan for these days.

•⁠ ⁠I was thrilled to get such a great report from a special Kenyan friend on my prayer group, raving about the new venue for the the growing ONE TRIBE church led my Mbonisi & Tash Malaba and the wonderful team in Nairobi. I love to hear of this advance of the gospel and am always inspired by Mbo who leads such a thriving church as a practicing Paediatric Orthopedic Surgeon.

•⁠ ⁠some of my best birthday moments have been receiving short clips of the Commission, Catalyst and Regions Beyond gatherings in the UK, over this bank holiday weekend. Thousands worshipping, many stories of God’s saving and healing power, and tremendous missional impetus in them all.

•⁠ ⁠I was so pleased to hear of David Cunningham doing so well on Mozambique this week. Just turned 84 and he is so fully engaged in life – spirit, soul and body. Pic of him here with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren… plus Simon Taylor (son of Chris and Karen, Netherlands) who is on a 3-month stay in nampula. Wonderful.

PRAYER

THANK-YOU for your messages of love and wishes for my birthday, and for your ongoing prayer for healing. I feel so good and am looking forward to the Booster Rutuximab and full check up this Thursday (29th Aug). I hope we will know more specifics then of how I actually am, how my kidneys are, and what the Stem Cell Transplant dates may look like. Please continue to prayer for healing through all of this, and ultimately for great victory in this battle.

Thank-you and huge love

Scott