Hello from Cork

Hey oh my goodness things have been so up and down over the last few weeks. The house stuff has really gotten on top of us but God has kept us sane and has been so faithful. The solicitor called today to say that the buyers have finally signed the contracts to seal the deal for the 10th of Feb. We're just hoping now that it will go through this time but there's no more planning issues praise God.

On the Cork front we arrived down Monday evening and had a long meeting at Grace yesterday from 9.30-3pm. It was good though talked about a lot of stuff like different roles, the youth and the how we're looking forward in regards to growth and development. Tom also asked Alex if he would be interested in being trained to preach!!! He was nervous but delighted at the challenge. Tom told him they wouldn't throw him in the deep end but would start him in on Tuesday evenings at their bible study evenings which on a quiet night there's between 70-80 but on an average night there's 100-140. Hehe had to laugh when I saw his face then but I think it's great the opportunities that are opening for him. So we went to the bible study to get a feel for it last night and really enjoyed it.

Today we met with Ciara one of the youth leaders we're training and had fun planning out the main leaders meeting for tomorrow night. For our next week we'll be meeting with youth leaders, teaching discipleship groups, teaching our 2nd meeting with the college age group we started and going to youth groups to help out. As well as this we are getting ready for teenstreet Ireland and planning a lot of stuff for it so we value your prayers at this time that we can wisely manage everything. We'll update you soon as things progress. Thanks for checking in on us. We really appreciate your support, prayer and friendship.