Its been an amazing trip so far here in the UK. God worked it out so that my host family would also have a muslim woman living here. She's estranged from her husband right now and waiting for him to call her home. They've been married over a year, and have only spent 4 nights in the same country, all 4 nights were spent apart from each other as well. She lived in her home, and he in his.

She asked me to pray for her and this difficult situation. So we stopped right there and prayed in Jesus name. We just found out this weekend that her husband got his visa and will be arriving within the week. Praise the Lord for answered prayers! Since then, we've been able to help her husbands brother as well, their network of friends is accepting us in which is exciting for me, because unlike in America, you can't instantly befriend everyone. Friendships come with time and effort, and can't be made from a simple conversation in line at the grocer.

Another situation that has occurred (and another answer to prayer) was that we - myself, and one of the missionary families here in the UK - were exposed to the swine flu. We took a group of contacts to this seminar on managing money, and as it turns out the girl that sat at the table in front of us had contracted H1N1 and didn't know. But praise the Lord that no one (neither the missionaries, interns, or contacts) became sick. This would be a serious hurdle given certain religions predispositions against anything related to swine!

Yesterday was particularly interesting - we spent half the day or so touring the biblical antiquities at the British museum. They have alot of very cool things that scripture talks about. For instance in the old testament where the israelites were forced to make stones with straw, and later as a punishment - without straw. They have stones that go back to this time period that were found near each other, one having been made with straw, the next was made without straw. Equally cool was the little statue of a goat caught in a thicket. It dates back to the time we believe Abraham would have lived. I'm sure everyone has heard the story about God asking abraham to sacrafice his son, and then in the last moments providing a goat - stuck in a thicket - for sacrifice instead. This statue many think was to symbolize that and has been around for thousands and thousands of years!

Entire books have been written about these nuggets of faith building treasure hidden away in this musuem so I don't intend to re-produce them here. However if your ever in London, you should drop by.

If you think about it, keep me in prayer this saturday afternoon as well, as I will be speaking with some muslims at a book table. The muslims set up book tables, and give out pamphlets of information (and books as well) to any and all who are interested in hearing more. I suppose its part of their form of evangelism. It was suggested to me that I aproach them and ask them to explain Islam to me, and see if I can't develope some contacts while I'm here. So the weekend before last I did just that and have befriended a muslim man whose been to mecca on the Hajj. Pray that God will make him receptive to the truth. We have had some good conversations so far, but this saturday is my last saturday in the UK and thus my last face to face conversation with him.

Ken