Keep her 'lit'

So many tremendous things happened on our trip to the U.k. Meeting different people and going different places.

It was a great pleasure to meet Pete Green in person, a young married man with an even younger family, who ‘out of the blue’ decided to support the Living Word School. In a world which emphasizes taking care of me and mine or just me, myself and I, it is always refreshing and exciting meeting someone who isn’t conformed to how things are but is prepared to bring transformation.

Pete decided to leave his job to set up a coffee delivery company, where each coffee purchased would feed a child in need! His desire to make a difference has motivated and influenced those around him, providing not only meals for 100 children in the Amazon but also jobs for people back home in Halifax (www.teafortwo.org.uk).

Pete had invited us to see 816 espresso (http://www.816espresso.co.uk/) first hand, we watch coffees being made and delivered to local businesses, people coming in and out to pick up their coffees and even some coming to sit and enjoy their coffee in the sweet ambience of the 816 locale. Pete throughout the day gave us a running commentary, not of how many coffees had been made or sold but as to how many meals had been provided.

I asked Pete, “what is 816 in the 816 espresso”?, he smiled and said it is Luke 8 vs 16 (that is in the Bible :-) ).

Luke 8:16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. (NKJV)

It basically comes from where Jesus is preaching on the mount of Beatitudes and telling the listeners what a life looks like that is living according to the Word of God!

We are called to make a difference in the community and the world that we live in…..go on……have a go……you were made to be the difference!

Emergency Exit

Thank you so much for your prayers. It was wonderful to arrive in Belfast after a surprise stop off in Exeter. When I purchased the tickets I thought and by all appearance the flight went Paris direct to Belfast. But we soon realized that the flight was going to stop off at Exeter were we got the opportunity to literally run around the airport, go through customs control and change airplane for the next leg of the onward journey to Belfast. As we hopped on the plane to Belfast the air hostess went to explain the emergency door instructions to Tinho who was sat beside it. On realizing he didn’t speak a word of English, she asked if we would kindly swop……which we did. Tinho laughed a lot when the air hostess left, as he said, poor girl, she doesn’t realize that in two minutes you’ll be asleep and in any case of emergency you are probably going to continue asleep! To which I replied that it was very improbably that in the case of an emergency I would even get the chance to open the door anyway…….needless to say that as the plane took off, my mouth was open, my eyes closed, neck tilted and a little drool had already formed a wet patch on my shirt just below my shoulder!!!!