One year on

We did share the cakes - honest.

Twelve months ago we were asleep, or as much asleep as we could be with the Jos mosques running overtime for Ramadan.  We'd arrived in Abuja that morning after an overnight flight, completed the four hour drive to Jos, met most of the Mission Africa folk living nearby and collapsed into bed at the Baptist hostel.
Today we had tea and cakes in our new outside room to celebrate surviving our first year.  Especially at the start it did feel like surviving although the small kindnesses and signs from God to reassure us we were where he wanted us to be were very encouraging.  There have been ups and downs; some aspects of life in Nigeria are definitely easier to cope with than others, but we have seen so many prayers answered and consider ourselves extremely blessed to be out here.