Update End of April 07

I know it was onlly like about 2 weeks ago but I thought I would send you are more upto date email with my coming and goings and more about the ship.

Well It is now the beginning of my 5th week of my DTS in Perth and the - So far we have studied the Character of God, Hearing God and Repentance/Forgiveness, Fearing God and this week is Relationships (with God and other people). These last few weeks have been some of most challenging, theologically I have ever experienced - but also the most amazing times.

My class is very mixed with Americans, Canadians, Aussies, Swiss, South Koreans, Thai, Malaysian, Danish, German and a fellow Brit. We have 24 people in our class in total with 5 staff. The base here is pretty huge with around 300 odd people here with so much going on.

I am also getting trained in plumbing here, as we have afternoon work duties and I am doing a bit of domestic plumbing around the place. I am liking it, but any of you Afria Mercy folk reading this - no I am not going to be joining the plumbing department!

Speaking about the Africa Mercy, everything is going great I hear. It has been moving between a few different docks picking up different suppliese and doing PR tours etc. I believe that they will be sailing in about 2 weeks to The Netherlands first then to the Canary Islands then finally to Liberia in about 3 weeks. I think the date to arrive in Liberia on the 21st May

Well I'll be back in touch soon with more updates.

Please keep in touch. I am sorry for the lack of professional quality going into these updates, when I get back to the ship I will do the usual funky graphics etc. but if you click the blue link below you'll see some photos posted on my blog.