New season in youth work at City Gates

Watch this space more photos to come showing the new season at City gates. We lost our venure for Gap on a friday night due to renovations etc leaving us with no venue. But God was so faithful he has provided us with a house in the center of Dun Laoghaoire where we will be starting something brand new for the group. We will have 4 rooms, 1 will be a cafe with tea/coffee/soft drinks and snacks, 1 will be a games room with playstation & X-box, 1 will be a music room/chill out zone with live music some wks and just regular music the other wks, the last room will be an art zone where teens will be able to use their artistic skills to grafitti a wall and poster the house. We are very excited about this new venue and idea and God is already blessing it with some people donating old tv's and a couch. God is good!! Please pray for this new journey. Xo

Impact in our house last sunday (8th Oct). We have 20people squashed into our house and then there was us. So 22 in total, all there to learn more about God, how cool is that.  

Our cat smoochie (Alex picked the name, not me.got it from the film 'death to smoochie') 

Glad to have her spot back 

Thailand Mission's trip Sep '06

Wow where do we even begin, 3wks in Thailand. We had amazing times and saw amazing scenery. As always God had a lot to teach us about ourselves and about the world we live in and don't always get to see. Thanks for all your prayers and support. We really needed them as this year was full of surprises such as strong opposition, real spiritual battles, floods in Pattaya, bombs going off by terrorists (not where we were but down south), the military coup and the end of a hurricane as we returned home and all that within 3wks. We're just glad to be home now and back to some sort of mild reality. We hope you enjoy the pictures, we've tried to capture the trip as much as possible. We took 887 pics so this is definatly a chopped down attempt. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments. Take care and God bless. Xo

Always shrines everywhere you go.

Two days in Bangkok

Eating at Mk, the average meal was 2euro.

Our hotel the Pj Watergate 

Houses next to the hotel 

The street our hotel is on. It's a great local street right in the heart of bangkok. 

A shopping centre in Bangkok 

The lads outside starbucks. This was our starbucks from last year in bangkok as well. 

Good old starbucks, you can't go wrong 

It was so hot this day, we were all sweating like mad 

The lads in their tuk tuk 

The tuk tuk driver was sound out he even let me in the drivers seat. It was hilarious, the size of these things. 

George relaxing before we head for Pattaya 

We finally found a hotel room for the night. Had a few complications when we arrived at our first hotel.  

Working at the Mercy shelter (orphanage)

Squashed into the back of Ian's truck

Typical roads in Pattaya city. On our way to the orphanage 

George and Paul unloading van loads of furniture. 

Andrew and Paddy working hard in that Thai heat. 

Alex working with Richard, the maintance guy for the orphanage. He knew how to make them work. 

Working at the Tamar centre with outreach to the bars & english classes

Really nice people in this country, and just so lonely and hurt. It was heartbreaking to hear their life stories and hear how they came to Pattaya and why.

Chatting with some of the girls. They all signed up for the banquet dinner and came to it. 

Bars during the day, this time is of day is mild, nightime is very different. 

The girls hanging out and helping at the english classes