HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS
On this list we recall great people who have helped us in the past and others who still help us in so many ways: Father Henry now in Rome, Father John now in USA, (now Father) Simon Donnelly, Monica now in Cape Town, Ms Rose Penkler and Susan Turner of Johannesburg, Rosebank Union Church, St Vincent de Paul Societies in Bez Valley, Rosebank, Rivonia, Knights, Operation Snowball, Dave McCallum, Tish, Peter and Michael Holding, Sister Fidelis, Kevin Eales, Rosemary Benjamin, and past volunteers from overseas: Kasia now working for the UN in Guinea Bussau, Amy in America, Serena in Italy, Elaine in Ireland, Catherine in the UK, Alex and Anja in Germany, not to mention our wonderful overseas Mercy Team: Judy and Gerald McGregor, John Frost, Mick and Penny Finn, Stefan Bartkowiac of British Airways and Art and Marylou in USA, and so on. Then there are the refugees who have moved from South AFrica, and here we think very especially of Jimmy and our Richard who (to our great loss) left us this year and may well spend Christmas in hospital in Norway where he has just had a big hip operation… All this tells that we truly are an international Mercy Family, which is the realization of a dream…
To you all: Have a happy and grace-filled Christmas: we shall certainly remember you all we kneel in spirit beside the crib
FANTASTIC ACHIEVEMENT
THANKS TO THE ROSEBANK UNION CHURCH
It is with immense gratitude that we report the installation of the internet at Mercy House: after 16 years without it and producing many graduates down the line, we have finally got there and we are glad. We could never even have considered this expense if it had not been for the very generous donation of the Rosesbank Union Church for this specific purpose. It is going to be a great benefit to our students and then of course, great holiday fun, to chat with distant friends on email and facebook!
Monday 13 December was the big day of the installation of our Internet. The study was soon full of eager and excited viewers as the photo shows. In the other picture we see Safari who will help to monitor usage together with Emmanuel our expert, so also designs our website…
A big thank you to Jennifer Adams at RUC who facilitated this financing and also to a dedicated team consisting of Michael Holding and his dad, Peter, Kevin Eales and Emmanuel Musa who brought this about on the practical level. Truly you all deserve a medal! Many thanks for this invaluable contribution to our work.