Wallyford

This past weekend Tabitha and Oscar had a little holiday with Andrew’s parents while we headed over to Edinburgh for a couple of nights. Without kids’ schedules to work around we were able to relive the hectic nature of life pre-kids. We caught up with lots of great friends, gave a short report as part of our missions prayer night, visited the ministry we will be involved with early next year, did some house-hunting and even found a few minutes to get to the shops.

It’s exciting how the doors are opening up for ministry in Wallyford. Please pray on Thursday this week for the group giving an introductory session to the bible club they will run in the school. There has been complete support for this group from the head teacher. This week they hope to do a treasure hunt and then start properly the following week. Pray that many kids will be attracted to the event and even venture along next week.

Wallyford, just outside Edinburgh, is an old mining town. House prices in Edinburgh are naturally quite pricy and so redevelopment in places like Wallyford is quite obvious as people choose to live further outside the city and commute to work. For 3 years now our home church in Edinburgh, Carrubbers Christian Centre, has been establishing links within the community and reaching out through mothers and toddlers groups, a youth ministry and other bits and pieces. The team has done an excellent job and are well known within the community. We are excited to be stepping into the team and to be looking at ways of developing the ministry further.

In some ways there will be many similarities to the ministries we were involved in in Mexico and in many ways there will be different challenges and opportunities. We are excited and looking forward to what lies ahead.

Our main prayer request is that we would sell our house in God’s perfect time. We would love to avoid another transition stage for the kids is possible i.e. sell our house here in N. Ireland soon so that we could buy in Scotland and move straight into the place that will be our home. Logistically it would seem much more simple rather than have to think about packing only the things we need for an indefinite period of time, finding a place to rent, living far from Tabitha’s school and our ministry and in transition again which could be hard on the kids. But we are confident that God knows our need and is concerned for our good and that He has never let us down so far. Pray with us as we wait on God for yet another miracle demonstrating His infinite love and grace.