Late January - and the Great Beard Experiment

I had a beard for most of January, so here is a picture just to prove it!

Well as you will see, in order to keep up with my stylish fiancee, I have redesigned by blogsite (actually clicked the mouse a few times and it was all done for me!)

January is proving tough! Jenny is thousands of miles away, I have spent a week in bed with a nasty infection, the weather has been pretty rotten here at Capernwray and Jenny is thousands of miles away...did I mention that?!

Lectures are still really interesting and time with fellow students is a learning process too.

We have a date booked for the wedding which will be in Canada on Saturday 1st September this year. Jenny has chosen a dress, so things are moving along quickly with life. Jenny also has a new job which she has now started. God is good.

I am now starting to investigate what I might do after I leave Capernwray and have 2 churches to contact with the posibility of internships - working with experience church leaders to gain 'on the job' experience. I have also applied to various colleges including Cornhill and Spurgeons with a view to further studies. Please pray that God would open up doors for Jenny and I to serve him.

The Zimbabwe trip is rapidly approaching and the team are taking various services here in the UK over the next few weeks to gain experience.

All prayers gratefully accepted!

Announcing an Engagement!!!!

Happy New Year. And the big announcement is...that on New Year's day, I asked Jenny to marry me. We went for an evening walk through the woods in the snow whilst here in Canada and I bent down to turn my trousers up, which were getting snow on them. I got up on one knee and looked into Jenny's beautiful brown eyes and asked her if she would spend the rest of her life with me as my wife. Before my knee froze, she said, "what did my Dad say?" and when I said he had given me his blessing she said "yes". We hugged for a long time and then prayed together in the coll night air.

We bought the ring a day later and now the most amazing girl in the world is going to be my wife!!! I am so happy and I keep crying unexpectedly. God has blessed us richly.