catching up

hi,

im sorry that ever since that week of mad blogging its been a while. life has been sweeping by me. but today i got to walk to work along the beach in brilliant sunshine.. god is amazing.

many of you know I went to england over spring break to visit mainly my grandma, the visit was planned quickly and so i rushed off without really processing all that was going on. it was good to catch up with friends and family and even manage to squeeze in a saints match - i finally got my rugby fix.

as i was traveling to the airport to return to vancouver my grandma took a turn for the worse, but i boarded the flight, a few hours after i returned to vancouver she passed away. hearing news like that is never easy by email and i don't think it fully sunk it for a few days. i didn't think i would be returning for the funeral as i had just been to england so off i went to work and started to get into the flow of things. on wednesday morning my dad offered to fly me home if i would like, after debating this and then deciding i would regret it if i didn't, i agreed to fly back and he started booking flights. i ended up flying that afternoon. i kept the second time i was home very quiet, many people didn't know i returned.. so sorry if you are one of them.

i then returned to vancouver on 13th april.. so now i can say i am fully catching up with live this side of the atlantic and its pretty much full steam ahead (unless my head says no!). since i've been back i have attended large youth events, had meals out with friends, enjoyed snow and weather so sunny and gorgeous you don't need a jumper, and generally had a pretty awesome time.

so much of the westside news, is based on what happened in my absence - robin and jess, did really well, im proud of them!.. so we started a new piece of ministry, opening up a church in the westside opposite kit's high school for after school drop in once a week. robin and jess have huge enthusiasm for this school, so now we pray around it once a week! lord byng is going well and we got to hang out with some students today and play cards :) and bayview filming has stopped and we have started editing - with me the star of one of the films.. oh dear and some hilarious footage from the lads. u-hill has been going great with robin starting a football tournament and staying till 7pm with students what we had in the first term! God is defiantly doing some thing on the westside.

thailand.. where am i up to.. well after having said yes, the next big step is booking my flights - i cant do the visa or injections until i get back to the uk for the summer) so what i really need now is the money to book them. as thailand draws closer i get more and more excited and more and more convinced this is the right next step and that yanking myself out of this city is the right thing to do. if you have any questions about thailand please please talk to me.

prayer requests:
1. i would stop hitting my head and that it would fully heal
2. kits students will come to the drop in
3. everything with thailand works out
4. for dan my brother :)