House sold!

Yes, folks, if you haven’t heard already, we’re delighted to announce that we’ve sold our UK house!

This was a real answer to prayer, as the UK housing market has been slowing down recently, and we had dark moments when we wondered if we’d have to wait many more months before a buyer could be found. But God took a hand in a wonderful way. A young man came to view the house, and you can imagine our surprise when we found he was a school friend of Stephen and Jen’s whom we know quite well! To cut a long story short, our house was at the top of his shortlist, and with his father’s help he was able to put up the deposit and obtain a mortgage. So the house will be going to someone we know: to a friend of Stephen’s who he’ll be able to stay with—in his old home—when he comes to visit friends in Thame. We’re delighted that he’ll have this option when the rest of his family are thousands of miles away in South Africa.

So with the house sold, it’s all systems go for the big move! We’ve gone ahead and booked our flights for 3rd August, though they may have to be changed if completion of the sale is delayed. And now we’re moving into the packing phase, finalising arrangements with the removal company, starting to deal with all the notifications, cancellations and paperwork that needs to be done, and so on. In between other things we still have a number of farewell visits with supporters, plus the ongoing red tape to be untangled with our house sale and purchase. (We recently had over 60 pages of documents to initial or sign with a UK notary public to finalise the purchase of our house in South Africa!)

So, we’ll be busy! We’d very much value your prayers for organisation and endurance over the next six weeks. Thank you for your prayers and support.