“The Fiftieth Year Shall Be a Jubilee for You”

Dear friends,

Warm greetings from Restenäs. 2010 marks a milestone for YWAM International as we celebrate 50 years of existence. Celebrations will be held all over the world as Loren and Darlene Cunningham visit different bases, including Restenäs. We are calling 2010 a Year of Jubilee as we celebrate God’s faithfulness. It is also a significant year for us here at Restenäs as we celebrate our 30 years.

A few times already we asked for prayer for our finances and this is yet another time - For life in Sweden as a family of four, we need to have at least 10000 SEK which is around 900 EUR. This is not much and is not for luxury but for normal food/cloth/rent needs. We have now about half of those money and would like to raise more.

I have got old Apple Mac eMac computer and digging it up now. It is definately faster than my Pentium 3 from the dump place but I have to live with the older software. I can port a few programs that I used to use from Linux, but whenever I dig more into the mac, I wish it would be Linux. The machine has PowerPC CPU and that means there is no way to run windows software on it. I'm also disappointed with strictness of this machine, e.g. If it decides that my keyboard is European type there is no easy way to cheat it to US keyboard.It also has limited number of free software for it, and a lot of software designed for next generation of os x.

However, there are some positive things - first of all it boots up way faster, second UI looks pretty even though it is not as powerfull as my office desktop.

So, my conclusion - it is good machine for dayly simple tasks. Kind of large calculator. It is not suitable though for development needs and for users who likes to experiment.

And the latest news - Lufthansa has decided to compensate the damage and sent money to our account. We didnt receive money yet but I believe it will come soon. Hope there will be no more disappointments on this issue.

 And finally we received compensation on our account, the case dismissed.

Ok, we are finally back from Russia where we spent last two months. This was a great time to see our relatives and friends but at the same time we had a few incidents before we reached the place. To say that from very beginning of the trip we realized that we have no experience of traveling with suitcases, since we always traveled with backpacks. It was hard but we managed. Kids, o poor guys, they where soo stressed by the long travel in train (we had to spend nearly 24 hours in train from Moscow to the place) Well, I thing parents (us) where stressed even more than kids.