The Day is Done - Wednesday

We have had a brilliant day in splendid weather - what a transformation the sun has made. The teams are doing great and energy levels have been restored despite no "Family Day" yesterday when many can have a rest. People are feeling tired but work rate is still phenomenal everywhere.
We have made the decision to have the "Family Day" on Saturday despite the fact that the weather is likely to deteriorate a little ... tomorrow looks like it is to be a sunny day. Leaving this "Family Day" until our last full day means that the School and Youth can end their program without a bang and not have a separated last day when the momentum of the theme would be lost - they build up to the last day as the week progresses and looking at both of the venues the children and youth are having great fun .... about 127 in the school and a whopping 110 at the youth camp!
The medics had a good but very busy day with as many patient registrations today as we had in all 3 days in Akli during the first part of the week; now it is just up to the doctors to see them all. There will be more registrations tomorrow. The dentists had a great day and got set up very quickly after the village move. They also were able to send one of the team (Lucy) into the school to do some oral hygiene teaching; which is badly needed.
Talking of the school; Cath and Simon run this and it is no mean feat, especially right at the end of their school year back home. They celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary today ... congratulations to you both.
The Community Team continue to run a very varied program and today put on an extra afternoon event in Gyula that was run mainly by the villagers ... and darts made a return appearance after the success last year; not quite ready for a Ukraine -v- UK tournament but we are still working towards it. In addition to this, helping with the dental setup, daily help at break time in the school, film nights, supervising medical queues and pastoral visits a plenty are keeping the small team very active.
Sunny Friday (we hope) will see final days for the school and youth camps, as mentioned above. The medics will plough on all day seeing as many as possible and doing some home visits - several instigated by the Community Team pastoral visits.
The evening is going to be very busy with the Winter Feedback in Gyula followed by a Thanksgiving Service, led by Drew again, and similar to the one in Akli on Tuesday. Everyone then piles onto minibuses (there are only 3 run by locals and buzz between the 3 villages all day, getting a rest when they can) and heads to Akli for a Social .... this is the only social and it is chance for the villagers and us to sample some of our entertainment prowess ... more of this on the blog tomorrow.
Please pray for all these happenings tomorrow.
We had a lunchtime meeting today at the Gyula pastors house where Jeno remains for only a short time longer. Andrew, myself and Lyn (representing Petersfield URC). We met the Dean, Jeno and Chilla (Jeno's wife) to tell them the magnificent news that the money needed to make their "new" house liveable would be given by an incredible donation from Perterfield URC and the small remainder from the mission fund reserves. Tears flowed.
I am very tired again so must close for the night .... have only fallen asleep twice whilst writing this.
PS We are conducting a search of Zoe's host family house to find the missing shampoo! (see Janet's earlier blog comment)