This past Wednesday 10th December saw one of our favourite peeps in the world, Dalton and Vicky Jantzen visit us in Gibraltar. This guy baptized me 12 years ago in a swimming pool in the Spanish city of Seville, and although we have maintained contact through the marvel of the internet, we had not had face-time all these years.

We started off by just hanging out in Gibraltar, visiting different places and just catching-up on 12 years worth of water flowing under our respective bridges. One of the highlights of the afternoon for me was finding a monkey inside my car...... I kid you not.

In the evening we held a service where we worshipped together, cranked it up, and then Dalton ministered a good word on humbling yourself and going low before God that He may exalt you in due time. It was in this going “lower still” that God meets you and does what only He can do. This is like a passport application where you have to fill in what areas of your heart God needs to work in, in this process of humbling yourself under the mighty hand of God.

What I really appreciate about Dalton and Vicky is that they portray this sense of being real. I guess that living 16 years as a missionary in the jungles of Colombia does that to you. You lose the appetite to play religious games, and the result is a process where you have often gone before God and asked Him to deal with your own heart, and change it. In my friends Dalton and Vicky, the fruit of that process is evident.

Guys, if you read this, I want to say thank you.....for being you – I needed that.