It's about 45 minutes before I leave for the airport, but I wanted my last blog to be a bit more uplifiting than the last. We're back from a refreshing and beneficial debrief in the Lake District, where I was able to see Wordsworth's tomb (he was a christian poet). Wordsworth, by the way, is my favorite poet so I was most excited to see it.

But as my ultimate objective for my time here was to advance the Gospel, let me tell you about something that happened recently at a ministry. There's the old adage about putting a crab in boiling water. If you do that, it will jump out. But if you put it in tap water, and slowly heat the water, you will be eating crab (or so the adage goes) in time. Well, a few months ago I thought of putting a "prayer box" out at a ministry. At first all kids put were different insults about other kids there, etc. There was one kid who loudly exclaimed "God is crap!" when we first implemented this prayer box. But, the last night of this ministry, this same kid wrote a prayer: "God, help me to have the best luck ever and to have the best life." I can't tell you how happy I was to see this kid opening up to God and at least admit that he wants a better life. We leaders prayed that night that God would honor this boy's request, and that God would show him what life was (and is) intended to be--that he may have life and have it more abundantly. I'm very glad that I'm leaving these ministries when people are finally opening up to God.

"Here I raise my Ebenezer, here by Thy help I've come,

 and I hope by Thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home."