Back to Singapore and forward to the UK

Dear friends,

I hope that you are all doing well and knowing God's closeness as we've stepped into this new year 2026. It's been quite a whirlwind for me.

Mum, Rachel and I spent Christmas together in Singapore which was really beautiful. We have been talking about going back as a family since we left in 2002 and it just never happened... until now! Rachel described being in Singapore really well as the sights having changed but the sounds, smells, tastes being all the same as we remembered from our childhood. It's really strange and wonderful to have somewhere that feels so familiar and homely, and yet is so culturally different both to the UK and to Nepal. I really believe that God used the time that I lived in Singapore (aged 11-13) to shape my heart and horizons for the nations and to give me an excitement about travelling, meeting new people, interacting with different cultures and trying new things.

Enjoy these photos from our time together:

At our old house

From the top of Marina Bay Sands

Natural and urban

Back to the Botanical Gardens

Christmas Day

Found a piano at the Botanical Gardens

Dosas in Little India

Mum's birthday at Raffles

Rachel was super kind and pushed me all the way around the Night Safari in a wheelchair after I twisted my ankle

The dancing fountains at Marina Bay Sands

And now it's a new year. 2026 started with a bit of a bang for me - I twisted my ankle so had a period of enforced rest which, although frustrating, is maybe not a bad thing. More time to sit with Jesus, pray, journal and reflect. I made it back to Nepal and, within a few days, ended up at the hospital with one of my street friends which was in liver failure. He passed away on the first day of our new term. It was heartbreaking but it also felt like a weird sort of privilege to get to be there with him right at the end of his life. I've known him for all the years that I have lived in Nepal so I have seen his story over quite a while.

God brought another new student into Grade 2 last week so I am now at 20 young minds and hearts that He has entrusted into my care. I am grateful for so many opportunities to share of His goodness and faithfulness with them and a bit in awe of the responsibility of that too!

Sharing at church last week about abiding

In other news, this is my last year in Nepal - I will be moving to the UK in June. God spoke to me very clearly about this back in October, and I have wanted to sit with it, pray and process as well as having the conversations I needed to have before announcing it in this way. There are things in the pipeline but nothing definite yet, so I would really appreciate you praying for me as I push doors and seek His will for the new. Please do let me know if there are specific things that you hear Him say. I also really don't know how I am going to leave this school, community, church and nation that I love so much. Please pray that I will be able to leave well, that God will hold me together as I navigate the emotions of wrapping up 7 years of my life in Nepal. I also really want my heart to stay soft and not become hardened or frustrated in any way. Please pray for all of the grace that I need for every day.

I know that many of you have been supporting me financially and in prayer and I also want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this journey with me. And not even just the Nepal chapter of it, many of you have been there, lifting me before God for many, many years.

Stay tuned.. Please keep praying... I feel so held, loved and blessed.

"The wind blows where it pleases. You hear its sound but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." John 3:8