Meeting up with Terry Hoggard, the former pastor of Christian Centre in Wallonia was a truly amazing time. Pastor Terry is a lively individual who inspires vision and passion and is praying to see the body of Christ uniting again in Belgium and Europe. His stories and testimonies of his more than a decade of experience made me feel like planting this church in Gent is absolutely in God’s divine time.

Johann and I then said goodbye to Hans and Elria right after our meeting to head home back to London. During our stay with them both Johann and I were so blessed by their hospitality and genuine love for God.

We left at about 11:30 Belgium time to catch the Eurotunnel at 14:20. We reached Calais in good time and thought we had about 40 minutes to spare before we had to check in. This meant we would be in time to get Johann to Heathrow to catch his flight back to Dublin at 17:45.  Our excitement was given a bit if a curve-ball when the car’s gearbox got stuck in third gear and was jammed about 5 miles before the Eurotunnel.

After a lot of options and phoning around, trying to communicate to quite a few French speaking people who could not understand a word of English, we finally got someone to tow us to the Eurotunnel. Our aim was simply to get into England so we could get the breakdown cover (which did not cover Europe but only the UK… yeah, yeah, - I know) to take us home.

We finally reached home at around midnight and needless to say, Johann had to make some other plans to get to Dublin this morning. (I just spoke to him – he is still smiling and home safe).

After all of this I came home and felt like this was simply one of the most significant trips I’ve had to Belgium so far. We are really excited to go and can’t wait for July in order to move to our new home.

Yvette mailed of the application forms for our children’s nationality today. It feels like this is the first of the last few steps before we leave.

Watch this space ….