This week in Wales…

Just a hodge-podge of things to mention today.

First, spring has disappeared.  I actually had to pull out a sweater jumper yesterday.  I good bit of April was pretty nice, but May so far has reverted back to normal North Wales weather – rain, low 50s, etc.  Of course, people who live in places like Seattle, or even Maine, know exactly what we’re going through.  The hill in front of our house was almost completely enveloped in cloud yesterday evening, and it’s only a couple hundred feet above sea level.

Also, did you know that today is election day in the UK?  I have not officially endorsed any particular party, but I’ve heard a number of Christians saying they favor the Tories, also called the Conservatives.  But they are not like those who would be called conservatives in the States.  I would guess that American conservatives would probably be viewed as right-wing extremists in the UK.  The polls are suggesting that there may be a hung Parliament, in which no party has a majority of seats.  No one seems to know exactly what will happen in the event of a hung Parliament, but I think it might involve some deal-making among the parties.  It would be worth praying that God puts in place some leaders who desire to preserve the freedom to exercise (and talk publicly about) one’s religion.  From what I understand, both Labour (Gordon Brown’s party) and the Lib-Dems are in favor of curtailing religious speech in way or another.

And we’re having a special speaker next weekend.  A retired science professor from the States is in the UK visiting a number of missionaries and speaking on the subject(s) of Creation and Science.  In addition to speaking for us in a couple sessions on Saturday, 15 May, we are also trying to get him into our high school.  It seems that it may happen.  But please pray that the Lord would open this door.  The head of the science dept. has suggested a debate between Dr. Steele (our guy) and some of the 6th form biology students.