Church, Friends, and Good Letters

Hey everyone! Happy Monday!

We have had a great past few weeks. Our friend Dustin was with us for 1 week and we were able to see and tour a lot of great things. We attended an Anglican Holy Communion in a cathedral one day. It was very different from your typical communion in Baptist churches, but really interesting. There was a sobering aspect to the way they did things. It was a good reminder to how serious communion actually is. This past Sunday, we went back to church. This was our 3rd time and as time goes on, we find ourselves building relationships and getting used to (for the most part) a simpler way of doing church. It’s been hard at times, knowing that God wants us somewhere that we don’t particularly care to be. It’s been a slow process of learning to tuck away our desires of a certain type of worship music and preaching style in order to get to our end goal of having a small group of young adults meeting at our house.

After Dustin left, we got back into the swing of things. I (Mandi) meet once a month with the wives of the other Media Team guys. I’m the only wife from the media team that actually works at the office, so it’s nice to get together with them. It’s been difficult and slow making friends here. We’re the only couple from the office without kids so everyone stays busy with families. Just pray that we would get creative and be able to connect with young adults around town, especially in the local pubs, as this is where the people here are most social. Our desire is to build relationships well enough in order to share the Gospel. All of this happened very quickly in South Africa, but it is much more difficult here in the UK. Pray that God puts us in the path of those He wants us to meet.

We’ve also gotten several packages from home! Thank you so much to Snowbird and the Prayer Chapel for all the letters!

We love and miss all of you,
The Showtimes