Monday, March 24, 2008

More visits from Dublin folk

Had a great time with Paddy and Stan. It was so nice to have them down to visit and share in our lives for the weekend. We miss them already now they've gone back : (

We've put up some more pics so you can check them out. Andy and Naomi are coming down thursday for the Grace church weekend away, so that'll be cool. The week ahead is busy with leaders training on wed eve with grace leaders and we're having dinner before hand all together as well so we're looking forward to that. We're meeting in the new Christian cafe, they're keeping it open for us and making dinner for us too. It's great to be able to support them by having our meeting there and it's so central for everyone to get to. We have the Grace church weekend away so there's lots to get ready for that as we're putting a youth programme together for the weekend and we meet with the church leaders tomorrow to look over everything. Appreciate your prayers, we're quite tired this week.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Happy Days!!

Well we have our first visitors to our new house. Paddy and Stan (our leaders we trained in City Gates) are coming down from Dublin. We are really excited about having people staying in our new home. We had Andy and Naomi in the house in the city but this is the first time we have people staying in "our house" . We have to say that this week has been really hard as we feel quite lonely this week. It's certainly not from lack of family and people around us but we were watching the parade on TV and got a bit teary eyed seeing our old home.

On a brighter note though we had our college group last Sunday night, so we had 2 nts last week with them. We are so encouraged by this group. We had 12 people in our house and we looked at the whole book of Job in one evening. Everyone was really encouraged as they said they had never looked at a whole book in one session before, but we all came encouraged and left encouraged. God is cool the way he brings us all on one the path at different seasons.

We've really been spending time growing the relationships with the youth leaders we're training at Grace church. It's been really cool just spending a lot of one and one time with people and really getting to see their hearts and how God has a plan for each one of them. It really is such a privilege to be part of people's lives and see how God is stretching them and growing them. We do miss our bunch in Dublin though. But we know God is starting something big down here as well.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Long overdue...

Ok guys we've just put up some pics of our time since we left in Feb so hope you enjoy. There are 3 sets 1) Our new home 2) Andy & Naomi visit Cork and 3) Adjusting to Cork life, so be sure to check it out when you get into www.flickr.com/alexandlinda/sets

Friday, March 07, 2008

Finally moved in, Happy Days.

Thanks for your patience, it has been a crazy few days this last week, firstly we got the keys on tuesday afternoon and began to load our stuff into the new house, when we got a call saying the banks had delayed the electronic transfer of our money and that we would have to take all our stuff back out of the house and drop back the keys.

We prayed hard and got a call back later that day to say the money was good and we could move in for real this time. The house ROCKS, WE LOVE IT!!! lots of space and it is warm, something were not used to. Smoochie has been slowly getting used to her new home and ventured outside for the first time today.

Youth stuff is going well and it is encouraging to see the group growing closer together, leaders and teens. We had our first parents eve the other night and it seemed to go well, with lots of encouragment and support for Youth work in grace.
College group is going great with 27 people turning up last monday night with 10 regurlars missing, we are already having to look for a new venue. I am preaching on sunday in Ballincollig and am prepping talk today.

Well fun times ahead as we decorate the house and unpack all those boxes. AAAGGGHHHHHH!!!

Hope this post finds you all well and we miss you guys all alot, praying for each of you, love Alex and Linda, oh and the reinstated SMOOCHIE:':

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

So sorry, keep being patient

We are so sorry we haven't had much update on our blog at all recently. But we've had no internet and there's been lots happening with trying to move etc. THe great news is we moved in late this afternoon (tues) and now finally have a home!!! We are really excited about being able to have a home to share together and with each other. It's exciting to think about what we can do now in having people over to stay, visit and just hang out. Still lots of stuff to move into the house. Lots of boxes to try and unpack and have fun in trying to buy furniture still but it's all good times and God has been so faithful to us. He gave us our home. We will get a proper update on here soon. Thanks for being understanding. Talk soon.