April (snow) showers bring May flowers...

Hey folks, time for another post! Well, I woke up Easter Sunday to see snow out of my bedroom window...

Just a few flakes, as you can see! Kinda weird at the end of March, but no big deal, right? Well, this past Sunday (the first weekend of April, mind you), I woke up to this...

And this is out the living room window...

So yeah, I now understand why Londoners say the weather is so unpredictable here! I must say that I actually LOVED having this surprise snowfall, even if I was the only one who enjoyed it!

Anyways, back to Easter Sunday...as I mentioned in my last post, we had to have our Easter service on Saturday this year because the IDEA Store where we meet was closed on Sunday. It went well, but to make up for missing the actual Easter day, on Sunday we had a dinner at our house! Over 20 people showed up and it went really well!

Here's Tola and Mawuse with a couple of Mawuse's friends who came to dinner (by the way, the baby is Joseph, Tola's son--he's a cutie!).

Moving on...for some reason, it seems like everyone is having a birthday this spring! Here we are celebrating Evan and Carl's birthdays...

...and here we are at another birthday lunch the following week!

We've also had several visitors passing through lately...like Emilio and Patty Carbajal (for you Bible College folks, these are Becca Brown's parents)! They were in London on holiday, so I got a chance to spend a couple days with them, it was such a blessing to see them!

Here's Emilio feeding the birds at St. Paul's Cathedral. Why is this significant? Well, for you Disney lovers out there, St. Paul's is the setting for the song "Feed the Birds" in Mary Poppins...so I thought I should take a picture! :)

We also recently had family friends Scott and Bev King visiting from back home in Washington!! So wonderful having them here!! This is a shot on the Thames River with Tower Bridge in the background!

And here we are with Big Ben and Parliament in the background!

Just this week, Cristina Malais also came over for a few days on her way back from Germany...had a good time touring her around the city as well. By the way, that's the Tower of London in the background!

We also met up with the Foxes and Dan Arnold for a meal!

One last thing which is kinda a prayer request...a few of us are starting to go to the train stations in the area to pass out Gospel tracts. This past Saturday we went to the station at Greenwich (pictured here) and it went really well! We expected to see our little tracts littered all over the ground when we were finished, but when we walked around a bit, we didn't see a single one! I saw many people reading the Gospel message, and a few even came up to ask for them! Even if it's just an opportunity to "plant seeds" in people's lives, what a blessing that is! As the Apostle Paul wrote, "One plants, one waters, but it is GOD who gives the increase!" Please pray that the Lord would continue to give a great increase of changed lives here in this city...

...because London needs JESUS!!!! :)