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It’s only 3 weeks till I arrive back in Australia for the first time in almost 4 years. It will be great to see family and friends, but wondering if I will recognise our home and if it has changed? When we flew out, the parks in Adelaide were green, water was available whenever, John Howard was top dog and Carlton couldn’t win a game of football. We have been so focused on work and life in Europe that we felt we may have lost the connection with Aussie? Then we had some sunshine, (almost forgot what that was…) a BBQ and we suddenly felt a connection again. Thank goodness for the humble burnt sausage.

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Saturday last we travelled to Bristol, about 2 hours south west of us to join with Danny, Nick and the team at the official launch of Edge Church Bristol. We also managed to catch up with Greg Jones….. again. It was an excellent time and the guys did a great job. It will be fantastic having some more Aussies around. The goodbyes were long and I think we were not really wanting to leave but alas we did.

I arrived home on Wednesday last and have had a few days of holiday which have turned out to be timely as a friend, Greg Jones, from Adelaide was in the UK for a couple of weeks and was able to come and stay with us. We appreciate the opportunity to catch up with friends and family as it helps us to keep up with whats happening back home.

We have arrived in downtown Chicago today for a brief overnight stay and then we fly back to London tomorrow. All of the meetings are over and we will get a few hours tomorrow to sight see before hitting the drama that is Chicago airport, and then arrive early Wednesday morning at Heathrow which is in chaos at the moment, so that should be fun.

We have started training and meetings with the US national office staff. For the next 4 days we are basically locked in a room with no time off for good behaviour. We are crafting the way NLI will function organisationally in the future as we look to reach 47 nations of Europe by 2020. It’s all whiteboards, coffee, project planners, coffee and long hours, but should be good on the other side.