Travelling

As well as visiting the travel agents to book our flight to Jordan/Israel we have been regular visitors to the travel hub of England, namely Yatton railway station. On our last visit tickets were bought for our next trips to Birmingham, Blackburn and Devon - and so far we have not experienced any delays on our many journeys to far, far away lands (we were baby-sitting this week and managed to watch Shrek 3 - a trilogy to match 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Matrix'). Just heard that BA international flights will be transferred to Terminal 5 at the end of next month - hopefully after we leave on the 24th, perhaps the Yatton station-master should offer his advice to Heathrow - the wikipedia photographer got bored waiting for a train to appear for his photograph, strange because there is at least one train a day!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatton_railway_station

House still in one piece !!

This is a picture of my parents house in North Somerset. P and I have just been for a sunny spring walk up a local hill. Mum and dad have v kindly left us to house sit for a couple of months whilst they truck around N.Zealand. It is a regular 70's grey brick house, but to us it has been a sanctuary; somewhere to rest and re-group before returning to the Middle East in April.
'Mum and dad' as u can see its all in one piece! So far we have had no breakages; just a slight cracking and a melting of some kitchen implements ( nothing serious!). Those of you who are aware of my culinary skills will appreciate this comment above. J

Plans

Following meetings with CMS this week here are our provisional plans:
24th April: Fly to Jordan for CMS regional conference.
7th May: Fly from Jordan to Israel, either using our volunteer visa (still not processed) or trying to get a tourist visa.
24th September: Start at All Nations Bible College, Hertfordshire, for a foundation course in cross-cultural service.
Christmas & New Year: With family and friends – wherever there's a spare bed.
2009: Learn Arabic at a language school in Jordan for 5 months before returning to Bethlehem or another Arab country.
And when we have time, we will be visiting our supporting churches in the UK. P&J

CMS Mission Partners

The result from our CMS selection conference is that we have been selected to be 'Mission Partners', which means that we will have the support and prayers of link churches, individuals and CMS, we can now be committed to going on a longer placement. Following meetings at CMS next Tuesday we should have a better idea what we will be doing over the next few months/years. In the mean time we retrieved some of belongings from our storage crate, not a huge crate (7' x 7' x 5'), but difficult to find things when the storage boxes weren't properly marked!!! P