a brief update

Hi all,


This is just a brief update on what is going on in my life at the moment. It has been stretching! But God is good, so I wanted to portray that.


Since I last wrote one of the biggest events has been that I found out that I need to actually apply for a Visa to get into Canada before I leave. This as some of you know is not an easy process and can take a lengthy amount of time. So as it stands I am hoping to get a Visa that usually takes 6 weeks to process in 2 weeks... Be praying! 
It came as a bit of a shock and honestly a bit frustrating. I had wondered if I needed to but after researched that I carried out months ago and from advise given I was informed I could pick one up at the border to Canada. I wrote to the High Commission in London double checking this research, they took over a month to respond telling me that perhaps I should apply. So I now have done and it has been a week.


The other big event is that in just over 24 hours I will be leaving Holmsted Manor. This is a strange thing to be writing as this has been my home for the good part of a year and a half, I have met God here in incredible and intimate ways. I have made the best friends that I could ever have hoped for and I have been challenged, broken down, rebuilt, and stretched beyond words! I know with my whole heart that I am ready to be moving on. I am so excited by what is next.
I will spend my time before leaving for Vancouver in England doing some travelling visiting friends, and also going to my home in Reading and spending a bit of time there, visiting my home church. I leave the country on the 28th September.


How can you be praying?

• For my Visa! God works in incredible ways, I need Him to work now.
• Transition out of Holmsted. This has been a safe place, but I know God goes with me.
• Provision. I have yet to find a house in Vancouver to rent.
• Give praise. God is really walking with me, I feel His peace in this madness so strongly.

Thank you to all of you that have been faithfully praying for me and walking with me in this journey. As I write this for the last time from Holmsted Manor I look back and reflect on all the wonderful and mind blowing things I have seen God do. I wish you could have been here with me to whiteness them, but I hope that these updates help you to feel part of it.

May His grace, that surpasses all understanding, be with you this day and forever.


I praise God for you.


Blessings,


Joel