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September 27, 2006
After Sri Lanka.....
Coming home has been much harder than I thought it would be. Don't get me wrong, it's great to see Laraine as I missed her so much and I’m looking forward to seeing my family and friends but coming back here where everything is so comfortable is very difficult after seeing people who have next to nothing.
I'm now back at work, sat in the rat race that is London where I have been for the past few years and I cant stop thinking about all the amazing things we did over the last 2 weeks on Sri Lanka. The songs we sang keep going through my mind, the people we met, the things we saw and the fun we had.
I can’t help thinking that God has something more than my job in London planned for me... I’m now very eager for him to reveal what that might be!
I also seem to not be able to go on a VCS Mission Trip without coming home with a parasite. I went to the docs yesterday and he thinks I’ve got yet another one and has given me some anti-biotics to hopefully combat it. Prayers would be appreciated as my tummy feels like someone has punched me most of the time.
Can’t wait to get to VCS on Sunday and see everyone and relive some of the amazing things that we've done. Thanks again to everyone at VCS who has supported us. Without you the trip wouldn't have been anywhere near as impacting as it was.
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September 22, 2006
Sri Lanka Posts
Rather than me put everything on twice, please check out:
http://www.vineyardchurch.org/sutton/sri_lanka/blog/
This has posts from everyone on so you can see what we've been up to.
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September 18, 2006
Photos in Sri Lanka!!
I’ve put together a photo gallery for you all to see a bit more of what we’re up to. Keep coming back for more updates which will hopefully happen every other day.
Click here to go to the gallery.
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September 15, 2006
Sri Lanka - Post 1
Today has been a very exciting day. We took off from Heathrow at 9.30pm and after a very long 12 hours flight, 3 films later we made it to Colombo to see Stephan awaiting us.
All of us have found the time difference quite difficult but are slowly getting used to it.
Once we landed, we were driven to our guest house which is owned by Pastor Sanna’s church and we given a really nice meal. Dasneeh (Pastor Sanna’s wife) cooked the meal for us and said that she has started off by cooking us one which was very mild… I guess they’ll get progressively hotter!
After that we all ventured off in two different groups to two Home Group Meetings. I was thinking it would be sitting in someone’s house but we all walked to New Life Christian Centre and then about 20 people turned up.
Duncan lead worship (after spending about 30 minutes trying to find a song that they knew the words to in both Sinalese and Tamil) and it was so powerful. We all sang in our native tongue and it sounded so nice, all singing to God in a completrely different way. It really made me realise how big his church is and isn’t just sat in Sutton. After that, we all gave our testimonies which was quite amusing as everything we said had to be translated into both Sinalese and Tamil. You could be speaking and completely lose track of where you were once it got back round to you again! After this, we prayed for anyone who needed healing. This was something I haven’t done before in that kind of setting and it was really nice and very powerful. I really felt that God was there. The people (mostly ladies and one bloke) were so humble and open. It was so refreshing and made me feel realise how much of a closed person I am…..maybe that’ll change by the time we get home.. we’ll have to wait and see about that.
Then back to the Guest House where there was a surprise birthday for Yohan with cake!
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September 13, 2006
Volunteer for the Olympics
Who knows what I'll be doing in 2012 but hopefully I’ll be a marshal at a sporting event.
My mum and dad have signed up for this so I thought I might as well too. It's basically to be a volunteer at the London Olympics in 2012. You aren’t committing to anything (as if you could 6 years before), just registering an interest.
Hope to see you there!
http://www.london2012.org/en/gettinginvolved/volunteering/
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