Jane's "on the job" review....

About four or five days after leaving Canada, Jane sent out a prayer letter. Now that I read it the memories come right back of how we knew that God was with us, and why we need to go again. I'll include it here for you to have a look at. It details the agony and the ecstasy of mission!

Hi Guys,

Haven't had access to e-mail until now, so hope you get this ok. I guess you realized that we had to wait to take off last Thursday. The lightning and rain were incredible. I heard after that you even had a tornado touch down around Toronto. We were supposed to take off at 8 o'clock but it didn't happen until 10:30 so we were quite late getting in to Manchester. Nigel had been waiting a long time for us. It was supposed to take us about one and a half hours to get back to Halesowen, but there was a big music festival starting and the roads were packed and it took us six hours. We were so exhausted that we all flaked out at Wendy and Stephen's house for some sleep, had supper and went to the service at Long Lane Church.
It was a really good service and good to see friends there. Irene [John's Mom, age 92!] caught the bus from her house and got off only to have to walk a long way from The Oak pub to past The Stag*. She said she had forgotten how far it was. We all went to different houses to sleep. JM and Kim went to Irene's to spend some time with her. We were supposed to get everyone by 5 a.m. and leave for Manchester to fly on an 8 o'clock flight to London then to Bucharest, but of course that didn't happen, so we ended up driving to Heathrow and catching the plane there.
That was fine because it was one less flight.

Gabi picked us up at the airport and we headed off to a place called Draganesti-Olt to a Canadian ministry there. That ride took us six hours
instead of three. We got there late. Draganesti-Olt is called the devil's footstool by the people around the area. There is a lot of witchcraft (which is very evident. You can feel it and actually see stuff in the spirit quite clearly.) (It's wonderful to have a God that is so much bigger.)
There is a strong spirit of oppression against women which is reinforced by the culture there. But the ministry is wonderful and has such a big vision. We did pray a lot there and Michelle took us sight seeing to a Roman ruin (so boring - please tell P. Ace sooo sorry) We also got to pray for the pastors of a house church there and had a very good time with another couple in children's ministry. He was English married to a Romanian girl. Got to pray with them too.

When we left there we went to Deva which is a six hour drive that took eleven. As you can see the infastructure here is not really good for the
traveller. Met a couple there with another very big vision for unity and God's move in this city. What a nice couple. We got to pray with them too.
Everyone here is very loving and giving and hungry for the Lord to move in a very big way. Also everyone here keeps asking John if we can come for six months or so or move here and teach. He keeps telling them to ask my wife.

Now we are in Sibiu. Meeting up with old friends and we are going to the Sibiu house of prayer in the morning to stand with them in prayer for this country. Friday we leave for Bulgaria. Please pray about our travel arrangements as the van we are in is not in good shape so we are planning to catch the train.

Jean and Geneva are doing fantastic and the team is in tight unity. We have laughed a lot since we got here. It has been good. Please pray we keep that unity and grace for each other and for the travelling.

Miss you all. Jane

P.S. It's flippin hot here.

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* Very common to use pubs as landmarks in England!