Abandonned animals and people :-(

After church this morning we gave a lift home to a lady who lives near us who is the widow of a Methodist Minister.  We were commenting on the state of the dogs around the place – some of them covered in sores, missing most of their fur and this morning we saw one with a mangled leg!  I think that when one of them gets killed by a passing mini bus it must be a blessed relief for them! 

This lady told us that a lot of the dogs are strays which have been abandoned – she told us that she often sees people stopping outside her house and putting out a dog, a cat or most shockingly, a mentally disabled person.  We thought it was sad enough to hear that dogs and cats are left on the road side let alone people.  She said people drive over this way from the Berbice area, come through our village on the back road, put the person out of the car and drive off.  They then just wander around not knowing where they are or where to go and a lot of them just die as there is no-one to pick them up and take care of them.  How shocking and upsetting.  It made us wonder how desperate a family must get to be driven to do that kind of thing.  L

The conversation tree

This afternoon we went down to the market place where Mark preached under a tree to the people wandering around.  We were told the tree is called “The conversation tree” – aptly named!  A little group from some of our churches came to support him and after he preached we offered prayer for people who wanted it and prayed for a few people in the street.  Mark was in his element and had great fun!  

Christmas day TV

This week we received some DVDs from my Mum and Dad and finally got to watch some Christmas TV!  Downton Abbey, Room on the broom and Christmas edition of Strictly!  It was wonderful to watch something half decent and even the UK adverts seem amazing to us now – so entertaining and professional!!