We have dedicated the last few days to familiarizing ourselves with the area of Notting Hill Gate, which is where we are currently living until the Lord opens up a flat for us to move into. We believe we are called here to live missionally, and to be intentional in detail to where in this large city that might be. So, similar to Nehemiah(chap.2) we have started the process of accessing the wall so-to-speak... seeing and growing a heart for the people. Also, other practical things such as: finding the grocery store, opening a bank account, taking Trent for his first Tube ride.
So for now, we are walking around the NW area of London, praying and seeking direction on where it is that God is calling us to live. Prayer, is and will continue to be thee foundation, and heart beat of every step that we take. We are dependent on Jesus, completely. We have found it important to learn to: "move man, through God, by prayer alone."
Love, The Simas Fam
“Within a few months of this time of consecration the impression was wrought into my soul that it was in China the Lord wanted me. It seemed to me highly probable that the work to which I was thus called might cost my life; for China was not as open as it is now. But few missionary societies had at that time workers in China, and but few books on the subject of China missions were accessible to me. I learned, however, that the Congregational minister of my native town possessed a copy of Medhurst’s ‘China’, and I called upon him to ask a loan of the book. This he kindly granted, asking me why I wished to read it. I told him that God had called me to spend my life in missionary service in that land. “And how do you propose to go there?” he inquired. I answered that I did not at all know; that it seemed to me probable that I should need to do as the Twelve and the Seventy had done in Judea- Go without purse or scrip, relying on Him who had called me to supply all my need. Kindly placing his hand upon my shoulder, the minister replied, “Ah, my boy, as you grow older you will get wiser than that. Such an idea would do very well in the days when Christ Himself was on earth, but not now.” I have grown older since then, but not wiser. I am more than ever convinced that if we were to take the directions of our Master and the assurances He gave to His first disciples more fully as our guide, we should find them to be just as suited to our times as to those I which they were originally given. “ - J. Hudson Taylor
