Friday 30th November - 5 miles up

As I sit here to type this it is 3:30pm on Friday 30^th Nov, UK time. We are 33,000 ft above the Caspian Sea about to enter Turkmenistan and travelling at 600 miles an hour. We left home this morning at about 5:30am, just after posing for the photo. The sharp eyed among you will notice that we are in front of a Land Rover, as obviously we are going to the other side of the world and only a vehicle of that muscle and quality will do. Strangely though, we did not need to make full use of it's off road abilities on the motorway between my house and Heathrow airport.

Before we left the team were prayed for by two separate churches, Jubilee Coventry and Hope Church Nuneaton. On both occasions we received some very specific prophetic words that I thought you might like to hear about a couple of them:

One was about Power and Love: - We need to expect to pray in Gods Power at the slightest opportunity and to expect to see His power at work. Also a river of love is going to flow from us.

I had already decided that on Sunday I should preach from 1 Corinthians 4:20 “For the Kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.” - So it will be interesting to see what happens.

Another was that we should expect to see signs and wonders flowing from our ministry.

Another based around Psalm 96 and to do with the importance that Praise and Worship will have on our time at there.

Again one of the focusses of our trip is to work with the local church in the whole area of praise and worship.

On a different subject we whilst we were in the check in queue at Heathrow airport an attractive young lady came up to Simon with that well know line “Don't I know you?”, Becci immediately moved and stood a little closer to her husband, but it turns out she really did know him (& Rochelle) from their Warwick University days. Meanwhile Rochelle has met on this very flight an old school friend that she has not seen for very many years and who is, apparently, off to Bali to a climate change conference – We didn't mention the Land Rover as our new vehicle of choice for the M40 slog!