Hi Friends,

Many of you have journeyed with us in our travels through our blogs or attended a marriage retreat, either in Australia, Kenya, Uganda, India, Sri Lanka or Europe that we have conducted. You are important to us and recently, we launched a new website to give you more resources for your marriage relationship. The website can be found at https://connectingmatters.com.au and the password for the padlock section is: support

We ask for patience as we attempt to iron out a few issues with emailing and blogs. Please let us know if you have any problems accessing anything in this email. Also let us know if you do not wish to be on this list.

Lockdown due to COVID-19 has its gains and losses for us. The losses are that we miss our marriage retreats (we would have been travelling up to Maroochydore, Queensland now). We have also twice put marriage training on hold. Seven of our couple friends who have experienced marriage enrichment with us desire to learn to be marriage facilitators. We are excited to meet together when restrictions are lifted.

On the gains side, we are resting from busyness and enjoying the lovely weather while sheltering in place. Bushwalks are frequent and keep us fit. We also finished writing a book that is currently being edited. It will appear on our website after publication. And we are also working on another book about our story. Regular Skype sessions with several overseas missionaries give us joy. Finally, one of the delights and joys of lockdown is connecting with our family on WhatsApp each evening to share our gift for the day and pray for each other and the world. Our granddaughter is due in 10 weeks and we are struck that this is one of the worst years to be pregnant. What a world she is entering!

As we are still in lockdown, we decided to send you a YouTube conversation featuring us, instead of writing a blog. You can access our video conversation with the same password at: https://youtu.be/CC614P7JjKM. We hope our conversation encourages your own conversations, either between you and your spouse, or with an important person in your life during this unusual and uncertain time.

Love & blessings,

Barry & Paula Davis