Horses4theLord ministries: 2011


Michal on Cheyenne

Again, a long time since I last wrote.
Our spring was nice and in November it was hot and dry. I went to the Eastern Bay of Plenty hunt trek . It was a 3 day camp. I went last year as well. Michal also came and he could help with the horses and setting tables.


going over the cut down pinehill

Doreen also came in her campervan and she rode Prince. The weather was very good. We camped at Waiotahe valley, somewhere between Whakatane and Opotiki.
This time where were 80 riders at the most.
Doreen and I always prayed together before each trek , while on our horses we would hold hands and pray.
At this trek there were no accidents. I rode Cheyenne on day one. She was super excited and pranced most of the time which made me very tired.


me swimming with Snoopy

The next day I rode Cheyenne for half a day and then Michal rode her back and I went back to camp with the lunch team. In this way I could rest and swim with Snoopy in the river.


view from our lunch spot

Camp was great, awesome spit roast dinners, and meeting new people. Michal( from Czech republic) is warming up to the gospel now and to the idea of coming to church. He actually asked to come with us to church!!!
So he came and enjoyed it.
So gently with love and genuineness, people can see that the Lord is real.


Lunchtime


dinner for the first night was ours to cook


me on Cheyenne and Doreen on Prince

Well, long time since I last wrote.
Winter is almost done, one more month and we have spring.
Winter riding hasn't really happened that much as we had so much rain.
We also didn't have any workers/helpers during our winter as there isn't much to do.
The only one we had was a lovely and sweet quiet Taiwanese lady ( 27) who helped me with the cleaning .
We have kiwifruit workers, genuine tourists who are staying at our hostel and who are working in this area.
The Horsesforfun has been going quietly along with a fortnightly trek organized by me, but because we had a lot of rain we've had to postpone a few, and the ones when it was sunny we rode on the beach.
We've used our stables when it was really wet. ( yes we have stables now, Brian made a double stable for 2 horses from our old garage. ( see my other website for photos) http://horsesforfun.webs.com
That was a real blessing.
Parminder came to see me the other day, ( I led her to the Lord a few years ago) and she is doing great. She has grown heaps in the Lord.
We did a beach ride yesterday at Tuapiro beach and 15 riders came!!! That was quite a lot for a winter ride...We took our tourists and today, we had an other trek with 2 tourists.
As we ride out I quietly pray for a safe trip. The Taiwanese girl who ride today had never been on a horse before. She rode Freckles and I lead reined her off Snoopy. On the way back after a 2 hour trek she rode alone and managed quite well and she really enjoyed it.
I must say Freckles is a very good and bombproof pony.
Didn't go to church today as I had to prepare the horses but God knows my heart, He knows I love Him.
And there are other days to catch up like mid week study and next week church.
PS By the way, meet our new horse, Cheyenne, a black and white pinto mare, who is going to be part of our horses team. She is still quite unfit but we already have 3 volunteers to make her fit by regular riding her.