On the way to Norway...

My case is almost packed again. Just a few more hours and I'll be heading to the airport for my flight from Edinburgh to Oslo. I'll arrive in Norway around midnight, and will be spending the next few days in Grimerud, meeting with the faculty committee for the College of Education in the University of the Nations. We'll be prayerfully considering the way forward in terms of our education and youth ministry degree programmes around the world. The last time I was in Grimerud was in January 2009 when I was co-leading a child and youth ministry school there. Everything was covered in a deep blanket of snow and the temperature was minus 26 degrees - officially the coldest day of my life so far! The forecast for the coming days is for around 14 degrees - a respectable Scandinavian summer temperature, no doubt. On Sunday I'll fly back to Spain, where we're still experiencing late summer temperatures of 25 - 35 degrees.