SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
An early start today, up before 5.00am, even Hong Kong was quiet, so that I could get a taxi to the Kowloon Airport Express Station to catch the first train, 5.53am, to the airport. I should arrive there at 6.15am and get through security in time for my 7.35am flight back to Heathrow. If not, I’ll see you sometime! I land at 1.30pm (UK time).
It is an amazing system here. I checked in my suitcase yesterday (Saturday) at the Train Station. They have check in desks for each airline and you can drop your luggage in up to 24 hours before the flight. That saved an even earlier start today.
Yesterday I left Cheung Chau and headed back to the mainland. It had been raining all night and it continued the whole of Saturday as well. So instead of some extra sight-seeing I went to the cinema and watched a film called, ‘Inception.’ I still can’t work out if it was brilliant or rubbish! It’s all about dreams and the sub-conscious and I’m not sure what else, but it was in English and dry! As I came out I wondered if it had been a dream!
I then spent the night at a Hotel in Kowloon, the Mariners Club, and watched the Everton v Man Utd game live with a number of Hong Kong Man Utd fans all in their Man Utd shirts! A little surreal. Slept okay and woke up to a number of weird looking creepy-crawlies wandering around in the bathroom and on my bedside table! Not quite Indiana Jones, but I survived.
So, the last leg of the adventure begins. Ukraine, USA and Hong Kong. What a privilege, what a contrast, challenge and inspiration. I have learnt so much from the people I’ve met, the places I’ve been to, the things I’ve seen and the opportunities I’ve had. It has been a truly amazing privilege.
The children at Kompas Park eager to play football, learn and have fun. The sessions at Willow Creek GLS with the top class teaching and challenging stories from individuals who have taken up the opportunities God has given them to make a difference in His world. The marvel of the world at Niagara Falls. The lives of the Brothers’ in House 4.
But I couldn't have been on this journey without the kindness and love of Kerry and Karl, who I thank God for every day, and the generosity and encouragement of my special church family at LHFC. But, of course, the trips would have been pointless without God whose presence and power I have felt in all the places I have been to and in the faces of the people I have met. Without Him it would just have been a holiday (I know some of you thought it was all along!), but with Him I have been able to witness to the truth that, ‘surely God is in this place.’ In fact He is all over the place.
So my final word goes to Him; Creator, Author, Provider, Healer, Saviour, Redeemer, Forgiver, Light of the World, Hope for the World, the Beginning and the End, the First and Final Word.
He gave me His only Son so that I might have Life, and have it to the full. He gave me the power of His Holy Spirit so that I could serve Him and be involved in His plan for the whole world, the transformation of one life at a time. That’s why I am committing the rest of my life to Him. Bring it on!
Your Kingdom come and Your will be done in me and through me. AMEN,
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