Deposit is paid.

Well we got a phone call from the agents today to say the deposit is in. So we're just awaiting the survey which will be early next week and then we'll get the contracts. So it's getting closer and closer to the full sale of the house. In another matter, Alex is not well this week. He was up till 4am this morning throwing up and doubled over in pain. He has been sick since tues morning so we went to the doctors today and he had his bloods taken. So we're awaiting results but the doctor thinks it might be gall stones. So please do pray for him as he's in a lot of pain.

We just agreed with our buyer!!

Ok we've sale agreed....it's all mad. we're so excited and so grateful to God for being so faithful and again blowing our minds. He's gone ahead again and against the market trend and sells our house in a month after going on the market, when all the professionals said it would take at least 3mths to sell. Now we just need to wait for contracts but the buyer is putting the deposit down tomorrow. I can't believe it's all happening. It's exciting but strange all at the same time. Xo

More news....

Oh my goodness this is all happening so fast. We got the first offer yesterday at 12.45 the second offer today at 1pm. And at 4pm we got the final offer from the same guy. God is brilliant now we just really need to pray and seek him over this weekend about whether we accept or not. Please pray for us that we get a peace about the whole thing. It is still a good bit under the asking price but an answer to prayer all the same. Thank you Lord!!

Another day, another offer!!

Praise God within 24hrs we have another offer. We're getting there. Our God will supply all our needs!!! Keep praying.

The ball has started to roll.....

Well we have had an answer to prayer. That guy we asked you to pray about well he has come back today with an offer. Now he has given a cheeky offer but that starts the ball rolling. Praise God we were only praying this afternoon about it and 20mins later we get a call from our agents saying an offer has been put in. She said herself it was a crazy offer and that he was really under cutting us but it was a start. So please keep those prayers up. We just want a fair price but it's so cool as God answered our prayers today so He has again reminded that He has us in his hands and everything is in control.

House update

The viewer that we had who came for a second viewing has said that he MAY (please Lord!!) come back with an offer this week, so do pray. Also we had a couple that came to view it last saturday and have said that they might come back for a second viewing and they have a mortgage approved already. So keep praying people. Thanks for being in this with us. Xo

More news

This is Adeline one of the teens from Grace youth group and this is one the games we had. How many pegs can you get on a face!! Top score was 60 on one of the lads but our camera died. check out some pics on our flickr box over on the side.


Hey everyone lots happening. Please keep praying as apparently one viewer who has seen our house twice now is rumoured to be making an offer next week!!! This is not completely guaranteed but looks hopeful. Thanks for all your prayer but please keep them up.

Since the last time we blogged lots has happened. Through negotiations with a church here in Cork they are going to help us to support us finiacially to help us run our college group and train some leaders. Alex will be a guest speaker once a month which is an exciting new direction for him. I have been meeting with the college student girls and will be meeting them again tomorrow at UCC.

Things are going really well at Grace and we are shopping for bean bags, pillows, cushions, hot chocolates and a cows tongue etc as we look to study James 3 with the teens on Sunday morning.

We've been down here now for 2 1/2wks and it's been GREAT! Although there is a little part of us that is looking forward to getting back to our own place in Dublin and catching up with friends. Alex said he's looking forward to sleeping in a real bed as 2 1/2wks on an air matress in the attic has it's limit :) Thanks for all your support and encouragement keep letting us know how your all doing. Leave a comment or email us to tell us how you are.

Linda & Alex Xo

Update from the South

Well time is passing by quickly and we are now here over a week. So much has happened, we have great times getting to know the leaders and teens at Grace more and are looking forward to a fun night tomorrow night as we take the evening for the youth group there. We are having a Winter Olympics evening so it will involved frozen t-shirts, bowling with frozen chickens, water guns and night lights, which victims oh I mean volunteers will hold over their head and lots of games involving ice. Oh fun fun fun. It's been a great week for catching up with friends and tomorrow I (Linda) am heading to UCC to meet with 7 college students (all girls) to talk and dream about what we can do together as a group to encourage, grow and journey together. As we mentioned before there is such a hunger down here and I have been meeting up with a few college students individually but now this is the first time where they have gotten a group together from various churches and backgrounds that I'll meet and talk about how I can help them etc. So excited and of course a little nervous as I want to really share God with them more and help disciple so they can reach out to many around them. So please pray that God gives me the words tomorrow as I meet with these girls because without him at the centre of this it is empty.

In house news we found out today that another house in our estate has just gone up for sale. We were gutted when we heard this as this house is gorgeous and is so modern and has everything. So much more than ours. So after a lot of panic and Oh we are doomed!!! We realized that we are so human and like everyone in the Bible when at the first sign of opposition or hard ship we run, run, run. Thank goodness for reflection times and a word from God reminding us to have faith ;) Also a few things have come up and a little battle is looming so please pray for us at this time that we will remain focused and not take things as a personal attack. We don't want to put it on a blog but God knows the story. Drop an email if you want our prayer requests as we really need to send one soon anyway.

So here we are again realizing that he has it under control and we just can't see the bigger picture right now. So what we can see is what a blessing it is to be here sharing in the lives of so many from different churches and having the privilage of being part of their journey with God for this time. We have been really encouraged by particular people that we are trying to train and have really been blown away by their trust, love and faith in us (little do they know hehehe). Seriously though it's times like this when things are hard that you have to collect your golden nuggets and make those markers to remind you of ALL that God is doing. As he sure is working.

Starting to settle in.

We really enjoyed this week and are beginning to settle here in Cork. We had a good leaders meeting at Grace on thurs eve and we looked at their Spiritual gifts with them. Everyone involved seemed to enjoy the night and were made aware of the gifts that God has given them, something that will help Linda and i to taylor roles appropriate to their giftings for each of them.

We taught on Sunday morning and it went very well, we looked at faith and deeds in James 2 and the teens really engaged in the discussion and opened up to the challenge and application in an exciting way.

We also went bowling and for food with the leaders on sunday night and had a great laugh with them. Also got some watersking done on sat and saw Munster play on sat night which was great.We just need the house to sell so we can make our move permanent, so please keep praying as we feel it might be close now. We will keep you up to date as time goes bye, but for now take care and God bless.