We're half way through the leadership development course and it's been so encouraging to see God at work in the lives of missionary leaders from different parts of Europe, Asia and North America. A first for us this year, however, is that a dog came to LDC with his family! Charlie is a well behaved boy - lying peacefully under a chair, and only groaning a little when long classroom sessions send him to sleep. He's very cute and I've joked with his owners that I am going to keep him when they leave for the long drive back to Austria. So, last week on my birthday, they came to me and said, "Here's your birthday present." I was allowed to walk Charlie home from lunch and enjoy him for half an hour before his owners came back to reclaim him.
Picking Charlie up to have my photo taken with him, it was rather surprising to realise that, back home, I have a cat who is almost as large and as heavy as this little dog. As long as I don't have a dog of my own, Teddi is proving to be a very cute alternative.
