Tuesday, 26 June 2007

We are finally off !


Today was our last full day here at the Kings Lodge for the lecture phase of the school. On Wednesday we clean and pack up and leave mid-afternoon for Heathrow and onto the Philippines. For those who would like to know the schedule for the next few days take a look at our class blog http://tklcdts2007.blogspot.com/. We plan to update this regularly so do check it out.


It is a very exciting time with much praying as we enter a different phase, that of active ministry where unity will be crucial. Several people here had words about unity this morning at our weekly intercession where we often pray for different countries and Youth With A Mission missionaries.


One thing that really touched my heart was when I and a friend, Lucena, who is from the Philippines and is teaching on the Health Care course, went to the Filipino International Christian Fellowship in Birmingham. I went in order to tell them about the work we are going to do in their home country and to establish a link between them and Youth With A Mission. They surprised me so much when they took a second offering for us and raised £73 which a considerable amount when you see how few adults there were (see photo above).
Lord bless them abundantly !

Friday, 8 June 2007

God really DOES provide

We have 18 days before we leave for the Philippines - most of us will fly out on 27th June, the rest on the 28th June. We have been prayer and fasting as a group for three weeks now and the last two days we have been praying continuously through the day and night. And God has answered our prayers:

  • we received a single gift of £2,000 yesterday for airfares, medicines etc
  • the hotel which was overbooked now can accommodate us for the first three weeks and it works out cheaper and more producitve than other accommodation options
  • we all got our visas in one day
  • the school of the leader's son will allow him to be taken out of school for the trip to the Philippines

Everyone is starting to get excited about the trip. Please do add your comments by clicking on the comments link below. Tell me what you would like to know about things for me and the trip.