We are in CANADA!!! Do you remember that often Paul's journeys were"interrupted" by all sorts of things... Well, our journey was interrupted by ASH! We had spent 3 days in LA with a tennis friend, Richard & his wife Carolyn. I played tennis in Hamilton in the morning and in LA in the afternoon! How cool is that? We then flew to NYC and were met by Phil Underwood, a colleague & friend for over 30 years. Phil & Gillian have been pastoring Cornerstone Church in Philadelphia for 13 years. We spent a week with them, preaching on the Sunday & midweek. We did some tripping around with Phil, visited State College which their youngest daughter attends (some 4 hours away)... then we found some wonderful outlet shops, which of course we had to "really" experience. It was time to head for NYC again to leave for Europe - but alas the ASH cloud had appeared & the planes had stopped! We spent about 4 days trying to contact our airline with no success & preached at Phil's church again. They were keen to pursuade us to stay "for a while" at Philadelphia - it could be a home away from home!

Anyway, we decided it was time to explore - Karen really wanted to see Niagara Falls ... so off we went. It was only 5 minutes before we took a wrong turn on the motorway - that was challenging! We went via Elim Bible Institute and caught up on some wonderful history.

After a trip on the Maid of the Mist boat that goes very close to the falls,we ventured back onto the freeway off to Toronto. Oh my goodness!!! Traffic, traffic & more traffic.

We are very thankful for the invention of GPS. We have discovered that the 401 goes forever and that you have to stay in the Rt Hand Connector to be able to get off when you need to!

We stayed with Pastors Phil & Rebecca Woodridge; pastors of the apostolic church in Toronto. They originally came from Wales & then were missionaries in Chile for about 10 years. What a great couple!

Now we are in Peterborough with Ps John Kristiansen; where I will preach tomorrow morning. I am really looking forward to it. We have a revival planned for 9.30am!

Well hopefully our next report will be from Europe - we are booked to fy out next wednesday night - direct to Brussells. Bless you all. Much love Nick & Karen.