With Jude finally home, things have calmed down a lot, even though life with a new baby in the home is always challenging. The ladies at the church have been such a blessing and have provided meals every evening. This has given us time to all get used to the new schedules and demands. All in all, however this week with Jude has been an absolute blessing - he is a really good baby, and hardly complains - he perfectly slotted into his routine and so my life hasn't taken a huge bump - thanks to the amazing grace of God, who has provided everything I need to still cope with the other kiddies...

Here are some pics of his first bath and him meeting a few people...

Thank you Father for the many blessings you have poured onto our family - surely You are worthy of all our praise and adoration! We love you LORD!

After many prayers and tears and days we were finally able to take our little boy home. What a relief to have him sleeping in his own crib, in his own clothes, in his own home with his own family...where he belongs!

Amanda, Rachel and Eden were all so blessed to finally meet their little brother...in fact the whole church has been waiting and praying with us, and so have also been so excited to finally meet him. Thank you Church Family, and other family and friends further away who have been praying for us - God has heard your prayers and has blessed us with this little gem.

Can you see the resemblance?

Over the past few weeks God again has done another miracle in our hearts regarding adoption. We wanted another little girl to be a friend for Eden. Then God convicted me about still wanting to be in control of my own life and now dictating to Him that I want a girl...and that's that! I eventually submitted to Him and told Him that I would be happy if He wanted us to have a boy instead. When I spoke to Glen about it, his heart was still very much wanting a girl - and I knew that God would work through Glen's leadership, and so waited to see what God would do. To cut a very long story short, when we found out about this little boy in the hospital, just like that God changed Glen's heart and we knew that this little boy was ours! Over the past two weeks we have been waiting to actually meet him at the hospital. After interviews with the social worker and a vast pile of documentation that needed to be filled out and handed in, plus fingerprints and even a visit to the children's court, we were eventually able to go and see him yesterday afternoon. The experience is really indescribable. Every other baby is just another baby...but your baby...is obviously the most beautiful and there is just a miracle connection that I cannot explain, but which is very real and tangible indeed! Glen became a ball of emotional mush when he held his little boy in his arms!

Glen preached an excellent sermon (as always) on the evidence that demands a verdict regarding the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It was a thrilling service, wither everyone's attention glued to Glen's almost acting out the scenes...very riviting.  We spent Easter Sunday with two lovely ladies, Mia and Amy, who joined us for a lovely braai. The girls enjoyed the company of Amy very much and later in the afternoon decorated her head as seen below. She surprisingly didn't mind and even posed for numerous photos...very sweet. We look forward to many more afternoons of fellowship with them as they filled the time with asking questions. Mia said..."It's the first time I've been to a braai with my Bible!"

This last Sunday we had our first baptismal service of the year. We had three candidates: Zeny, Kevin and Tinyiko.