In Scotland!!

We’ve arrived!

Our experience at the Glasgow airport was significantly simpler than our nightmare in London. Thank you for your quick and powerful prayers! If we’ve learned anything in this first 24 hours, it is that God has GREAT plans for the students here and we want to be a part of it- anything that is worth this much work from the enemy’s side must be worth MUCH to our Father!

It is almost 7pm here- we are getting ready for dinner. Many eyes are droopy and heads are hanging from exhaustion, but we have a lazy day tomorrow of just recovery and some planning time.

We are having a HARD time finding internet connection, but we are hoping and praying that more connections will appear so that we can keep you up to date on the things to pray.

For now:

- We PRAISE God for getting us all here safely and making it possible for us to come. We are excited to be a part of what He is doing in Scotland. We met with another YWAM missionary today and he had some very prophetic words for us about the GREAT impact that God will have through this week.

- Pray that Katie Bedingfield would get here quickly and safely- no hitches in the luggage or passport or anything. NO weapon formed against her shall prosper!

- Pray that God would continue to fill us to overflowing with His love for these students and His heart for them.

- Pray that He would give us His creativity and His mind for these students as we finish planning camp.

- Pray that God would remove all exhaustion and fill us with His energy and His power- that we would all sleep well (remember daylight lasts from 4:30am to 10:30pm- a little different than Marietta!) and we would be ready for all that God has for us this weekend before camp starts.

- We had such an amazing week at RiversStone’s summer camp last week- God showed up in a deep and meaningful way in the hearts of our students. We KNOW that there is one God and that same God inhabits the praises of His people, no matter what country. We are asking God to show His same saving power, His same presence in worship, and His same full expression of His love for His children. We want to see Him!!

I just need you to appreciate the situation right now- Cheryl is talking to a sweet Scottish man at the camp, who keeps reminding us that the “techy geeks” at camp are unable to connect the internet. Justin is in the driver’s seat (the steering wheel is on the wrong side and the car drives on the wrong side of the road!) and just now a lady has come out and told us to follow her to the closest internet café. This is hilarious- I’m typing a blog in the backseat of a car!

This is our first view of the camp and it is going to be interesting, to say the least.

We are now following the lady to the internet café, but for some reason she has us going through a pasture on a one-way road- we have made so many turns and the three of us are so lost that Justin just asked, “Are we still in Scotland?” I wish y’all were here to experience this with us- apparently when a Scot tells you it’s just ‘down the hill’, that means you are lost and are never going to be found again.

And now we are in the internet café (for 25s and under? What is THAT about?) and the nice man is trying to help us out. Ok, so it will TRULY be a miracle if we get to blog again soon- add that to your prayer list!!