Winding down!

I think part of me is still in denial about the fact that we’re leaving San Francisco on Saturday. The sun is shining as we walk down the streets here, a blessing compared to the predicted cold and rain which is more normal for the bay area at this time of year. Temperatures are still in the mid to high teens here, so the prospect of landing at Heathrow on Sunday morning to potential lows well in the sub-zero’s does not fill us with huge excitement!

That much said, we are excited. We’re excited to be able to come back to the UK, to reflect on all that we have seen and experienced here. We’re excited to see family and friends and to share with them some of what we’ve been part of. We’re really excited to see our co-students at Moorlands College, many of whom have been doing other placements in different places all around the world. We’re excited to hear about all that God has been doing in and through them, as well.

We are sad though. We’re sad to be leaving people who in 5 weeks, we’ve come to know as friends. We’re sad to be leaving a ministry that has taught us a lot, and woken our hearts in a fresh way to God’s love for the last, the least and the lost in his world.

But as we go, we’re determined to go in his strength, to listen to his voice and to follow his lead in every detail of wherever we end up next!

Thanks for your prayers, and please keep praying for us as we wrap up a busy final few days here, for strength as we keep going right up till we leave on Saturday afternoon. Pray for safe travels both back to the UK and then on to Moorlands within 24 hours of our arrival there. Pray that we can process well, and effectively put into words some of the lessons that we have learnt through our time here.

Most of all, pray for the people we have met here: the staff at YWAM San Francisco, who face such huge challenges with incredible boldness and faith, every day and the people that we have been working with them in ministering to. We ask that God would bless them, that he would lead them, that he would watch over them and that most of all, he would draw them to himself.

Amen!