12 p.m. Central Time - Leave Lakeview
5:30 p.m. Eastern Time - Flight Atlanta to Miami
We landed and had enough time to get to our gate and swallow some food quickly :)
8:40 p.m Eastern Time - Flight Miami to London
As crazy as it seemed, we landed in London on Friday at 10:30 a.m. After an 8 hour flight on which we did not sleep much, we dropped off our luggage at homes and headed to eat lunch!
The idea is to stay awake and busy so that you can sleep that night on "London time". After lunch we did some prayer walking - we prayed at a recently reopened "Spirituals" building, an abortion clinic, a couple of night clubs and a Jehovah's Witness building. It was a lot of walking, but we managed - I might have put my head down on the supper table and dozed for a few minutes :). We had dinner at our friend Abi's house. Her family cooked for us and served us - it was wonderful. (See the recipe attachment from our supper below).
Friday night, the guys did some street ministry at Ealing Broadway (right out side an Underground Tube Station). The girls helped with a children's night at South Hanwell Baptist Church.
London is not a country that needs us to help build them homes, administer medicine, or other work projects; they need loving, Christian relationships. Street ministry gives us an opportunity to stand on a red box and tell testimonies, short illustrative messages, and start conversations with the people who stop to listen. We usually ask something like "what do you think about what they are saying?" Some people welcome this and will talk to you, while others are either in a hurry, or do not want to talk at all.
The children's night at the church was fun! We went to the local park that was about 3 blocks away and played some games. The first thing we played was a version of tag, if you got caught you had to go to "jail", the adults chased the kids first (I was the jailer so I had to protect our captured kids so they wouldn't get free), then we played again where the kids chased the adults. Needless to say they were much quicker at catching than we were! I mean three of the six adults were jet lagged ;) After the game, we had a testimony and a snack. Then the kids wanted to play Futball Shootout - this is our soccer ball shooting into the goal! We had a lot of fun despite our being tired - the kids were very well behaved!!
As you can see it was a long day - by Friday night when we went to bed it felt like it had been two days since we had landed in London, but it was only 12 hours before! Daniel and I both fell asleep very quickly around 10:30 (that is only 4:30 p.m. back in Auburn!) I did not take any pictures on the first day :( but believe me there are plenty more on the other days!
Supper Recipe:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/simple-baked-lasagne
The addition of butternut squash in this is awesome!!!
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