Today is our last day here in Motherwell, and what a blessing this trip has been! Forming relationships with the church body here in Motherwell has been an amazing encouragement and blessing for all of us, and today we got to deepen those relationships a little bit more over a BBQ with each other and some members of the congregation. One member of the church, Cameron, cooked us burgers, hot dogs, chicken, and South African sausage for lunch, and it was DELICIOUS. After the BBQ, we cleaned up and finished packing, and now we’re enjoying some fellowship with each other and some members of the church who have come to say goodbye before our us comes in about an hour to take us to London for our flight home.

Please be praying for safe travel and divine appointments on our way home.

God is good-all the time!

Today we were blessed to have gone to the Highlands altogether with the church staff from Calvary Motherwell as well as some of the congregation. We visited Loch Lomond, Callander, and the William Wallace monument in Stirling. It was a great day of fellowship and fun (we even got to see some of the highland cows!!), and after getting back to the church we had a debrief and meeting before getting a head start on packing and heading to bed-our last night here in Motherwell.

Tomorrow we are going to be cleaning, having a goodbye barbeque, and then finishing up packing, cleaning, shopping, and money exchanging before our bus comes at 10:30pm to bring us to London for our flight home to California.

Please pray that there would be no last minutes stresses or complications, but that everything would go smoothly and that we would have safe travels, both on the road and in the air.

Today we had a group go to a church in Carluke for the morning service, while the rest of us stayed in Motherwell and helped out with the church here. Chaz finished up the book of Jonah, and then we had lunch, tea, and coffee with the church body. In the afternoon we sent another team up to Carluke to invite people to the special evening service while the other team came back to Motherwell for the evening service here at Calvary Motherwell. Chaz taught for the last time from the pulpit while we are here, and following that we had another time of fellowship with the body over tea and coffee.

Tomorrow we go to the Highlands in Loch Lomond. And Tuesday is clean-up, BBQ, pack up and head out day. Please pray for safe travels and encouraging fellowship for us in our last days in Scotland.

Today we spent our last outreach day in Glasgow. We all left and headed to the train station after breakfast and a devo and arrived in Glasgow at around 11 o’ clock in the morning. We spent all day in the downtown area of the city and walked around, talking to people. We were blessed that the sun did peek out a few times in between the rainfall, and overall, the weather wasn’t that bad. Each team had a little bit of outreach money that we could use to bless someone else, so some teams bought people some food, one team bought flowers and passed them out for free and told people that God loved them and made them precious in His sight.

We headed back to the church after Glasgow and had a quick debrief and time for testimonies, and then hit the sack.

Tomorrow morning we have one team going to Carluke to go to a different church and help out, and the rest of the teams are staying at Calvary Motherwell in the morning, then in the afternoon another team is going to Carluke for the evening service. I say that today is our last outreach day because for the next couple days we will be focusing more on “inreach.” Tomorrow we have church and fellowship with the body, on Monday we are altogether going up to the Highlands with the church staff for the day, and on Tuesday we will be cleaning up, having a goodbye BBQ, and then heading out for London at 10:30 that night to catch our plane the next morning at 10.

Please pray for us as we continue to be used for the encouragement of the body of Christ while we are here for the next few days and please pray also for safe travel and divine appointments for us as we travel.

Today during the morning and early part of the afternoon we had some of us go to David Livingstone’s house and some went to go do laundry outreach. After that we took the rest of the afternoon and evening to do bus outreach and just walking around various towns nearby and talking to people. It was a pretty low-key day, learning more about the people of Scotland, both past and present.

After outreaches, we all went back to the church for a debrief and bed!

Please be praying that over our last few days here in Scotland we would be bold in following what the Spirit is guiding us to do and who He wants us to speak to or pray for.

This morning we went out and invited the community once again to our soup and sandwich outreach. We had more people come from previous trips we had made into the community and we had the opportunity to connect with many of them over lunch. In the afternoon, some of us went to do our laundry, and some went to David Livingstone’s house. After those two things we all came back to the church for dinner before the evening service, taught by Jeff Kuhn. After the service, we all went into the fellowship hall for coffee and tea, and not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5 birthday cakes for Nathan, a little boy in the congregation who turned 5 today.

Tomorrow the teams who didn’t go to David Livingstone’s house today will go there, and the other teams will do their laundry. Please pray for open hearts to receive what the Lord wants to teach us as we learn a bit more about the country and people of Scotland.

Today was our last Sabbath day while we are here in Scotland. We all split up into various groups that wanted to go to various places, some of which included Edinburgh, Glasgow, David Livingstone’s house, Stirling, or just staying here in Motherwell. It was a great day of fellowship, and even though we had heard that the weather was supposed to be worse than Monday (the day we got stuck in Edinburgh because they shut down our train), it wasn’t that bad. Kind of a gloomy day, but the wind wasn’t that strong and neither was the rain. God is good!

Tomorrow we have our last soup and sandwich outreach and then Bible study that night. Please pray that many people would come to both, and that their hearts would be open the Lord’s work in their lives.

This morning we went out and invited people in the community to our free lunch this afternoon. During lunch we got to connect with many more people, some of which we had invited on previous outreaches! It was a great blessing to see so many people there. At 2:30, 3 of our 4 teams left to go to Glasgow while the 4^th stayed behind to finish up the outreach and clean up before heading out to Glasgow. While in Glasgow, our main goal was to street evangelize (while of course, being an accurate expression and reflection of the love of Jesus Christ.) We got to Glasgow and back without any issues as far as the trains, and then we had a debrief and went to bed.

Tomorrow is our last Sabbath day while we are here. Some of us will be going to Sterling, Edinburgh, or Glasgow, while some others are staying here in Motherwell to rest and walk around the town a bit. There are a few different Bible studies and home groups that some of us will be attending tomorrow as well.

Please pray that God would bring us divine opportunities tomorrow while we are out and that even though it’s our “day off” that we wouldn’t lose sight of the mission at hand, and that we truly would be an accurate reflection of Jesus’ love.