Hi friends!

Who would ever have thought that a volcano in Iceland could shut down flights and create such bizarre chaos?! Strange but true!

After an amazing 2 weeks at Spring Harvest, yesterday I travelled to London Heathrow and found a totally empty and deserted airport – SO bizarre when usually it’s a hub of international travel and energy! Here are a few pictures I snapped as I walked around..

My flight is cancelled, so now I’m just one of many passengers waiting for news about when the airspace will re-open. When it does, those who’ve been waiting longest (I think flights started getting cancelled last week…so there is a back-log of people) will most likely get priority… So I’m just keeping an eye on the news and seeing what happens.

Apparently, years ago a plane flew through volcanic ash and it resulted in the plane’s engines all stopping… So now that I know that, I’m glad they are NOT flying planes through the ash cloud!

Sadly this means I’ll miss “Catalyst”, the conference I was flying to California to be part of. But my friend Carlos is going to fill in my worship set, as well as doing his own, so all will be ok!! Here’s the promo video for Catalyst West Coast… I’m praying their event goes amazingly!!

Catalyst West 2010 Promo from Catalyst on Vimeo.

Have any of you guys reading this been affected by the travel chaos? or has a friend or loved one?

How do you approach difficult situations when things are out of your hands, and you have to surrender and trust God? Is that easy or hard for you? Got any Scriptures that help you through times like that?

Love

Vicky

Hi friends!

Yesterday I spent the day in central London with a camera crew and my manager Wendy, filming a video piece to go with my new EP and album! It was bucketing down with rain, under a grey cloudy sky… so it’ll look very legitimately British! We started off inside St Mary’s Church, a beautiful, tall church built in the early 1800s near Marble Arch and Marylebone in the heart of Westminster. We filmed the stories behind the songs on the album there. Then after grabbing sandwiches we piled into Wendy’s car and drove around the city center with both camera men hanging out the windows filming the city in motion!

We parked near the River Thames and got footage of me chatting about themes on the album and about life in general. The rain didn’t stop so I pulled out my black and white polka dot umbrella! We filmed the London Eye and the Houses Of Parliament, then drove into the dark and very heart-breaking area of Soho – it has been London’s prostitution district for the past 400 years.

I got out of the car with the camera crew and we captured the explicit and devastating nature of those streets. I shared thoughts with the camera on worship and justice and my passion to see human trafficking ended. We ventured down some very dark, small alleyways lined with prostitutes and pimps. My heart was racing when we got accosted by one of them and told to stop filming as what was going on was private and not to be documented. It was scary and we felt pretty vulnerable…but I am so glad we were able to go there and let our hearts be even more deeply broken by what goes on behind closed doors. Worship and justice MUST go hand in hand – one of the songs on the new album is all about that…so my decision to shoot some film in Soho was one I’m still glad I did.

Watch out for the video! We’ll post some “Flip camera” B roll in the next week or so to give you a taste of what the full version will look like!

Not long til my 3 song EP comes out…. Feb 9th!!

Love,

Vicky

Hey!

So you know me well by now… but you have never seen any pictures of my family. They are fabulous folks… so let me introduce you!

In the photo above (taken a month or two ago when I was home for my birthday) there is…L to R:

Me, Claire (engaged to Brin), my cousin Brin, my sister Jo & Tim who have Jess, Owen and Hannah, Nanny and Grandad (Ron & Dorothy) Davies, then…Mum and Dad, cousin Lindsey, cousin Lou, cousin Libby and their parents (my uncle and aunty) Christine and Frank.

Brin’s brother Tim and their parents Dilys and Gordon aren’t in this shot, nor is my cousin Lauren, but they are part of the family too!

My Mum and Dad all dressed up for a recent wedding of some friends…

A photo I took of my sister Jo with my Nikon D80….

So now you’ve met my parents, my grandparents, my wider family… hope you enjoyed the photos!

Are you an only child? Got siblings? How many are in your wider family? When do you all get together?

Love,

Vicky