After making lots of new friends with four of our REPC missionaries, today we visited with some old friends from St. Louis, Robbie and Jane Ellis Griggs.  Robbie served on the pastoral staff of Central Presbyterian Church with Clay and I for six years.  Robbie and his family are in Durham, England, where Robbie is in the middle of getting a PhD at Durham University.  We had lots of fun touring the city including the Griggs boys rolling down the hill near the Cathedral.  They had so much fun that they inspired two young women who were part of a group there, to roll down the hill as well.  It was a sweet thing to behold.  We then went on a tour of the Cathedral, which is the burial place of the Venerable Bede as well as St. Cuthbert.  There were two choirs singing in the Cathedral today and we all wanted to sit down and just listen for hours.

Robbie then took us around town to learn more about the city before we made our way home for dinner.  After dinner, we were able to catch up on one another’s lives since we were last together.  We also have the opportunity to morrow to worship with them before we take off for Edinburgh tomorrow afternoon.