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| Just hanging out in the Queen's backyard. :) |
How have four months in England past so incredibly quickly? It feels like just yesterday I was holding my breath for my visa to be approved. Time really does fly when you are having fun.
I know there has been a serious lack of personal updates from me on this blog. I could give excuses but the reality is that I've been busy. That's a good thing. I came here to serve and be busy. I'm happy that I have been able to fulfill both of those things.
The summer has been full. Full of wonderful people, visitors, royal experiences, lives touched, and rooms cleaned. I wouldn't change a minute of it.
There are lots of stories I could write for this post but the thing I want to talk about most is God's provision. From the very beginning of my planning to come to England God had provided in miraculous ways. But I haven't just seen God's provision in my own life. I've seen it in the lives of my friends and others who have come to serve at NTC. Two particular things come to mind. (I'll share one in this post and the second in another.)
The first is how God used a Work and Witness team to accomplish so much more than originally anticipated. A Work and Witness team arrived to work on the kitchen and chapel here in July but because of some unexpected circumstances they were unable to work at the college. This was obviously a disappointment for them and for the college, but this is where God's plan and provision come shining through. The college put out a call to local churches and supporters of the college and the work that needed to be accomplished at the college was still completed as planned thanks to several dozen volunteers.
This meant that the Work and Witness team were able to do other things. They reached people and communities that they would not have, had they been able to work at the college.
God provided for the college as well as for the team. In a way double was accomplished. Multiple communities were touched instead of just one. His plan and provision was bigger and better than ours. I'm so thankful for His provision!
Here are a few pictures from my visit to London...
