Greetings from me in my homeland!
Its been a great time here so far… I left nashville airport at 2pm on Friday, then connected in Newark to take an overnight flight to London Heathrow. Saturday morning, after a 7 hour sleep on the plane, I woke up to see us beginning the descent into Heathrow, catching a beautiful view of Big Ben, the Thames River, the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye, all outside my window, sparkling in the morning sunshine…beautiful!
Here’s a snapshot of me and my road manager Joy who is travelling with me on this trip. We had just boarded the flight to London and were very ready to sleep!
From Heathrow, we took the tube and train to Paddington Station (have you heard of Paddington Bear? That’s where his story was set in the children’s books!). Here is my favorite station on the London Underground… there is a station called “London Victoria”… and I’m biased because that’s my name!
From central London we took a train three hours to the countryside of Somerset. Its a beautiful part of the UK…lots of rolling hills and wide open skies. The nearest town is called Castle Cary, as there is a brilliant castle there… I love how historic England is!
Read Joy’s blog too, to see what we are upto as she is blogging from here too! http://aussiejoyslife.blogspot.com
The speaker today is Dave Parker from the Desert Vineyard Church outside of LA. Nice to have an American here at the conference too, as it reminds me of the States! He spoke about our hearts needing to be broken tiwht the things that break God’s heart. He said our world has become SO apathetic. He told them story of a woman who was attacked outside of a busy apartment complex full of people. She shouted and cried out, but no one came to help here. Curtains flickered as people looked and decided they didnt care enough to move beyond the safety of their own world. We need to have our hearts broken with what breaks Gods heart – we must be moved out of out apathy and into action for a broken world. Does that resonate with you? How can we share God’s heart?
More later!
Vicky