sitting by the fire, a bit of a catch-up

Well here I am, with a promised blog entry, it's one of those precious nights where you sit in your house, in this case with a fire going to my right, and Christmas decorations all around. I do miss putting up my Christmas village, but now I live in one instead of creating one on the table. There has been so much going on lately, let me give you a whistlestop tour of our last couple of weeks:

Went to Salt and Light prayer days up in Derby back in middle November was great to see friends, and to pray with a vast number of different people. There are many church planting initiatives being planned, and other projects that are starting all across the UK, very exciting times. Our church body is in process embarking on the start up of a youth drop in centre right here in the centre of our village of Overton, this is very exciting, and it is picking up steam during this Christmas season.

After returning from Derby where we stayed with Jazzy, we drove to Heathrow the next day to pick up Karisa. If you are ever flying into London, try to make it terminal 5 it is the best airport I've ever stepped foot in. The upgrade it is over the other terminals in Heathrow is breathtaking as is the terminal itself. Anyway after a short 45 minute drive to the airport we were back home enjoying the cottage and chatting with Karisa. She worked on Rebecca's hair for quite some time while I caught up from the previous days of being gone, and then we got on with Alpha that evening. Alpha has been really good, a great time for it, we have been in the right place for it as well.

The weekend hit soon enough and the three of us went for a walk at Watership Down, a gorgeous valley like area not too far from our house. We jaunted for some 3 hours and then finally made it back to the car, let's just say we were cold, tired and ready to sit down, oh the lovely English weather, actually the weather that day wasn't bad, but quite windy up on top of the hill before desecending down into the valley, of course then you have to traverse back up the hill to get to the car so ya. Hung out at night with friends from the village, a chilled out time, it's good to have friends close by we can walk to their new pad in about 2 minutes or so.

On Sunday our church meeting was one of Thanksgiving, it was a great time, so many people shared. Karisa joined our worship team for the morning, that was like old times with us two belting out the tunes. God is doing a great deal in the life of our body here, and so many were involved with sharing it was encouraging. just back from nursing the fire a bit, have we mentioned that we really enjoy having it, last night we argued over who would jostle the wood around to get the biggest flame, oh the joys of our life here. Anyway the body is moving forward, God is taking us into a new season that is clear from what visiting speakers have been saying and there is momentum.

Monday we were around, but nothing amazing to share out of that day, but then Tuesday and Wednesday hit, but I'll put out a post just for that, but probably later tonight or maybe tomorrow.
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