Well what a busy week it's been but it has been a great week for relationship building. We started the week with a course on anti-bullying. I convinced Alex to go and look at the way he's been bullying me at home........ haha no on a serious note, I have been asked to become a board member for the Cork YMCA and we got invited to a training day and course on anti-bullying. It was disturbing to hear all the research that has been done in the YMCA centers as well as in churches as well. It really was an eye opener and a well worth day out. The rest of the week has been packed with meetings with leaders and college students as well as work here at home. My dad and brother and Alex all worked so hard to put out our decking out the back and worked all through the pelting rain on tuesday to get it finished. We are so grateful for my dad and brother as now today we are sitting out on the deck in the glorious sunshine and working prepping talks and info for our first meeting with our Kenya team on Sunday. Praise God for the good weather and even better workers. I'll post some pics in awhile so you can see it.
We have another visitor from Dublin, Carla (one of our Dublin teens) so we're really enjoying hanging out with her. She flew down on Fri and heads back home on Sunday so as I type she is studying away for her leaving cert which is in a week and half!!! We also have Paddy coming to visit us tonight and heads back tomorrow with Carla. The loyal guy is driving all the way down from Dublin to meet the team he'll be working with in Kenya in August, so we really appreciate and love his heart that his willing to drive down for a 2hr meeting and of course to see us I'm sure ; ) We have a youth worker from Dublin coming to stay with us Monday and tuesday so we're excited about that too and then wednesday we fly to Dublin for a day to meet with the team and plan Teenstreet IReland for next year. So it's a busy time but a great one as we get excited about the future and see God move through people's lives. On the 3rd of June we head away on a God given holiday for just over two weeks and we can't wait!!!! When we sold our house in Dublin we put the money in the bank for 2 and half weeks before we bought our Cork home and with the interest it earned it paid for our flights to Bali with a free stopover in Hong Kong. Isn't God great otherwise we wouldn't be going anywhere so we are really excited and extremely grateful for his provision. Also another anser to prayer is my recovery from my wisdom teeth, Praise God that I have had no pain whatsoever, I haven't had to take one pain killer and I haven't had any infections (thank you Lord) and I had four wisdom teeth taken out. So I was told I would need a lot of stuff to get me through, so we went and bought everything and there still in the boxes : ) So thank you for those who were praying and are praying as it's coming along nicely. Ok I have to go and get some work done so I'm prepared for our meeting tomorrow.
Please continue praying as we have lots that we need to look at and lots coming up and we want to be sure that we're walking where God wants us to walk. So do pray that we discern through prayer and fasting what God wants us to do next. There are a lot of things coming up at the moment that we need to look at and to be honest it's really tough so we value your prayers at this time. We'll update again soon. Lots of love and hugs to you all. Xo
