It's Tuesday, and the beginning of another week for Youth With A Mission, London. It's also the start of of another week of lectures for both the School of Leadership and Ministry (LMD) and the Discipleship Training School (DTS), October 2014. The last few weeks have been exceptionally busy for the base and for me personally. About ten days ago, the October LMD and DTS started. That night I went straight through to Stansted Airport to catch a plane to the Netherlands. One of my closest friends, from my own DTS (two years ago) got married on October 11. It was my first Dutch wedding and I really enjoyed being there and seeing a few people from my DTS. However it was a very short visit. I was only in the Netherlands for three days (two nights). The day after I arrived back in England my sister came to visit for Tuesday and Wednesday. We had so much fun together and she's already planning her next visit to London to visit. I'm really looking forwards to her coming back.
This afternoon we have a government outreach. We've been doing quite a bit of that since the school started. The day before the LMD officially started we did a spiritual mapping day, which involved walking around London and praying for different topics as we passed that location. This week is international disarmament week, so we're going to go and stand outside parliament. It's a first for me to do this, as we didn't do this on my LMD.
Otherwise, things are going well. My parents are still in South Africa with my younger brother Caleb (who's turning sixteen in a few weeks time). They've had some issues with my parents' South African visas. The laws changed a few months back and led to a lot of problems with my dad being able to get back into the country after his visit to the Netherlands to visit my grandmother with Caleb. He had to wait until the ban that had been laid on his return to South Africa had been lifted. They're currently working with the Home Affairs Office to get the visas sorted out before we meet up for Christmas in Uganda. Hannah's still in Paris, working as a chef in a restaurant that's located in a posh train station.
Till next time