God has been doing some small but significant things over the past two months. In Ministry terms we are seeing some real growth in Lee Valley church where I(alex) speak and we attend. I have been preaching through Jesus teaching on the Kingdom of God. This has produced some great responses. The first of note is that the Church has responded to a challenge of how we could reach out to our community in Ballincollig and we have begun to prayer walk the area. Everyone was encouraged as God put the same things on all our hearts as we prayed. When we discussed it later it was unreal to see that He definately has a plan for the people of that area. People are sharing the Gospel and have a heart to disciple more and more.
We are really enjoying some close friends of ours continuing to grow in their new found walk with Jesus. We are discipling them once a week and it has been a real blessing to see them and even their language change. Phrases like, "we were lucky, now translate, we are blessed". this is so refreshing and exciting for Linda and I.
After much prayer and many attempts, God has finally moved the heart of a new volunteer for our monday night outreach to the guys on the streets of Cork. That ministry is called the Mustard seed and both Dave(His outreach) and I are very excited to disciple and enjoy the company of this new volunteer. His name is Ant and we would love you to pray for Him.
We have something possibly in the pipeline for the New Year which would be a real blessing to us and give us further support in what God would have us do here in Cork, but we are in the praying phase of this to see if this is something of Jesus and if it would be a fit for us also. We would love your prayers on this as well.
Finally just to say that Linda is an incredible mum already, she is waking up every half an hour at night, still feeling sick most days and is 6 months pregnant already(where does time go), but she never complains and has a great attitude, I am so proud of her, I could not do it I assure you. So both Mum and baby are really fit and well and we are so excited to begin this new chapter in the coming months.
All the best for now, will update soon, thanks for your prayers, support, love and thoughts, we are learning to trust Jesus with more and more of our stuff and thats never easy but never boring. Lots of love Alex and Linda
