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It’s
6:00pm here and today’s been a pretty lazy day. We flew all night from Washington
DC to London’s Heathrow airport. The flight was only about 60% full and
the seats were comfortable. We were
on a Boeing 777 which has a video screen and movies at each seat. Since we didn’t leave until almost 10pm
last night most everyone went to sleep as soon as they fed us (beef,
potatoes, creamed spinach, roll, fruit cup and chocolate cake). We arrived at about 9:30 this morning
shortly after eating a breakfast of a roll, butter, jelly and fruit
cup. What a life, all I do is eat
and sleep.
Arrival began my “fun” as I
have a 36 hour layover here in London before
flying to Lagos, Nigeria
and then Monrovia. As disappointing as the United folks were
in Nashville (I’m being a little unfair I
guess but they made a significant mistake right away and never were able to
recover), the United folks in London
were just that good. They put me up tonight
in the Marriott – Heathrow, also paid for a day room since my flight leaves
late tomorrow night, provided bus passes to get me back and forth and also
provided for 4 meals at the hotel.
It took about 2 hours to clear customs, pick up my heavy luggage,
find United and get to the hotel.
But it was all very low stress with everyone being very helpful.
I’ve worked some today,
answered some emails, updated the website (twice), eaten lunch (not sure if
I’ll be able to hold supper tonight) and took a walk around the block just
to get outside. My daughter,
Rebekah, spend 3 weeks over hear on a college study course earlier this
summer and she wishes she were here to show me around. So do I. During my walk today I saw the widest
variety of cars you can imagine.
Maybe half we have in the U.S. (Mercedes, BMW, VW, etc.)
but there are several brands that I’ve not seen before. Many of the cars are manual shift and all
of them have the steering wheel on the “wrong” side of the car. They drive funny here too. I had no desire to try driving as it
would take some time to get used to driving on the left side of the road. I think I could pick that up okay but the
turns into and off of the roadways would be tricky.
I’ve been reading Spiritual
Leadership by Henry & Richard Blackaby
today. In the dedication section
Richard Blackaby says, “I dedicate this book to
the emerging generation of spiritual leaders… who want their lives to make
a difference in God’s kingdom and who are willing to adjust their lives to
God’s agenda in order for that to happen.”
I’m seeing more and more people who are making huge adjustments in
their lives so that they can live on God’s agenda rather than the world’s.
Pray for Kimberly Forder. She and
her husband, Bob, recently sold out and moved to Liberia with their 7 children
to serve God there. Kimberly has
come down with some type of infection that would likely be easily treated
in the U.S. but can’t be
cured in Liberia
(think about that for a few minutes).
She is flying back to the U.S. just to get that taken
care of which is very expensive and time consuming. I was sent some things to bring over for
the Forder’s by two separate families in the U.S. I hope to have a chance to meet Bob while
there.
Nothing else big has happened
today. It was actually nice to make
this stop halfway and bath, sleep and eat before continuing to Liberia. I hate to give up the day and one-half of
time in Monrovia
but am grateful to be on my way again tomorrow night.
Thank you for your
prayers. Pray especially that I will
be given favor with the proper people during my time in Monrovia so that the Crown event can have
the maximum possible impact in November.
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