Saturday, 28 April 2012

Wet weekend

Well, in contrast to the lovely sunny weather we had last week, this weekend is going to be full of storms and torrential rain. Definitely not a day for delegates to go to the beach again or for us to have a barbecue like we did last Saturday. One of our LDC delegates is a South African of Indian ethnicity, though, and this evening she'll be cooking a big curry for all forty of us. I'm looking forward to that. 
I managed to book several plane tickets this week. I've been trying to work out the best way of getting to Romania to teach on the PCYM there in June this year. This week I managed to find flights via Barcelona, which works out well, as I have to be in Barcelona the week after teaching in Romania. And, because I have a week's gap between the end of LDC and the dates of my trip to Romania, I managed to book in a quick trip to Scotland that week, so that I can visit my family briefly. My Dad is still in hospital (it's been six months now) and it's been a very up and down journey as he's having to work hard, learning to eat and learning to walk again after his near-death experiences at the end of last year. Please would you join me in praying for his continued strengthening. Once he's able to walk by himself with a zimmer, he will be allowed to move back home again, even though there will still be a long time of recovery ahead of him.