Going to the land of Coldplay

For those of you who don't know K and I will be heading to London for a few days this next week. We have wanted to take a trip to the UK for a few years now and things lined up so that we could do that this summer. Please pray for us as we travel from DFW to Chicago to London (Heathrow) on Tuesday and Saturday of this week. We will be staying at a hotel near Buckingham Palace all three nights we are in London. Tentatively we are planning a day trip to Oxford on Friday to tour the city. Some of the spots we plan to visit while in London are: Westminster Abby, Parliament, the British Museum, the London Tower (and Tower Bridge), St. Patrick's Cathedral, Bunhill Fields (and Wesley's Chapel) and whatever else we can squeeze into the extra long days they enjoy over there during the summer (sunrise happens about 5am and sunset around 9:15pm).

London is 6 hours ahead of central standard time. If you need to reach us the best way will be by e-mailing my work account (jwatson@swbts.edu) (I will be able to use my phone for e-mail but voice calls will cost $0.99/minute...yikes!). For those of you wondering what the weather will be like: today's high was 74 degrees (Fahrenheit) and the low tonight is projected to be 55. We hope to publish lots of pictures on our Facebook pages when we return.

This past weekend we traveled to Little Rock to surprise my mother for her 70th birthday. Thanks to the work of my sister, niece, aunt, the graciousness of Bayou Meto Baptist Church, hard work of many others, and God's grace we were able to surprise her with a large group of people (87) who know and love my mom. She was blown away by the magnitude of the event and the love shown to her by those who came.

I praise the Lord for a godly mother who taught me His word and lived it out before my eyes. "Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised" (Prov 31:30). God grant us the grace live each day in the righteous fear of You, to love you with all of ourselves, and to look eagerly for the appearing of Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.

jonathan