The changing world (40) Nov 1975

Nov 1st A day of visitors for us in Langtang. Calcotts from Vom with her parents too, Maurice Cottom, Gindiri, and Tom Owens from Jos. Tom was our boss.
2nd Preached . A Youth Service Corps young woman came to chat after the service.
3rd Hot but dry so OK.
4th Rimkat the cook off ill.
5th To Jos on Hinda for its service.
6th Working on the guide for TEE teachers. Visited Rimkat our cook in hospital. Greeted  Indian doctor and dentist there
7th Langtand district will have 10 TEE centres.
8th Spoke on Eph.2 at local primary school's Fellowship of Christian Students.
9th Farewell service for local bible school students.
10th To Jos on Hand. TEE manuscript not finished typesetting.
12th To Kabwir where there will be 6 TEE centres.
13th Working out calendars to TEE classes.
14th Started work on TEE book on evangelism.Katy to the local secondary school to teach the choir.
Most church singing is from Gospel Bells in English or the Hausa hymnbook. It is dated and not great. But at the Kuru Government secondary near Vom they had a Welsh music teacher who conducted a very able choir so it an be done.
15th 150+at local primary school's Fellowship of Christian Students.
16th David did poo in his pants and said his brother had put it there!
17th Katy and David miserable with colds but she still made a Christmas pudding.
8th WORKING ON TEE BOOKS, THE EVAGELISM ONE THEN THE TEACHERS GUIDE FOR THE TEE BOOK ON PRAYER.
19TH JONATHAN HAPPY WITH TOY TRACTOR ETC FOR HIS FIFTH BIRTHDAY. WE NOW HAVE A LADA FOR OUR CAR. DROVE FAMILY TO VOM VIA JABWIR AND PANYAM FOR POST-NATAL. JOS OVERNIGHT.
20th Christmas shopping in Jos. The boys to the zoo with the Clarks. Back to sticky Langtang with our three asleep en route - over 100 miles of good road.
21st Triggs staying with us. David not co-operating with potty training. katy at school choir.
22nd Over 200 at the primary school FCS.
23rg Rachel dedication service. Local practice. baptism IPC Ealing seven years later. Reading my favourite historical novel, Descant from the Hills by Yorkshireman Stanhope White, colonial era DO in Gwoza. I met him later in Yorkshire. Greeted local RC priest who seems a fine man. Irish of course. He says the difference between their missionary priests and Protestant missionaries is that they get fat on the field and we get fat on leave.
24th Working on TEE evangelism book. Triggs still here on holiday.
25th To Jos for what I thought was a course on audio-visuals but turned out to be on visualaids so I missed the second part.
26th back to sticky Langtang with a drum of petrol. Buy while one can.
27th Work on evangelism book. I am translating into Hausa.
28th School principal requests Katy do a Christmas concert.
29th Tom Owens here overnight. He is a gifted expositor, a former veterinary surgeon.
30th Tom preaching at Lagtang ordination but I was up to Bukuru for the end of a TEE course there.