My Birthday Girl

Can you believe Liana is nearly one!!! Our lives are disappearing befor our very eyes(I sound so old). The time has seriously flown bye, but we love her more and more each day, right now standing is the coolset thing going, Liana is standing on her own and learning some new words.

Her favourite word was triumphantly proclaimed recently on a trip to her great grandmothers house here in cork. Linda had gone to get something when Liana was seen to climb down and root through Linda's handbag, she found the other half of a falrey's rusk which she then thrust into the air with some defiance and shouted Bickie!!! Other words obviously are mum/dad/pretty/bye bye and a few more.

Linda and I are doing well. work is still ok, i am really learning alot about patience and self control as it is a tough environment at the moment, the Lord keeps asking us if he is enough for us, with ou all the ministry stuff and that has been very challenging as we have really soul searched recently.

We have our good and bad days but I can honestly say that we are learning to trust Him for His provision and for everything really. We are learning that if you seek first the Kingdom of God then all these things(which we strive after) will be given to us aswell, that's a cool promise, which we are beginning to see come true.

Monday night is going great, we are still regurlarly engaging with the homeless community in the city and have really struck a cord with a girl who uses the streets to pay her way, she has been really struggling recently and is sleeping on the streets, God is definately at work in her life so if you could pray for her that would be great.

We now have a team with us on mondays, a team of five which is hugely encouraging and has sprung forth from our sunday night meeting where we meet with like minded folks who want to put Christ first in everything and who want to live out their relatinship with jesus in a real and practical way. We are discipling eachother in the word and then putting it into practice midweek in our work places and on the streets.

Out of this group we have become involved with a college group which has been started in response to this to help young Christians in University to cope with the challenging questions/lifestyles they encounter in these crucial years. On a wednesday eve we meet with around 15 students on different stages of their journey with Christ to discuss key topics, like sexuality/evolution-creation/what happens to babies when they die and much more.

Professor Frank Peter's leads the group and I have really learned tonnes during this time, He has a huge heart for young people in His university and an incredible ability to use scripture to answer these tough questions.

It is no accident that these topics are coming up in work with people and I am able to explain from the bible where we as Christ followers stand in these areas, please pray for T in work who has asked for a bible, God is clearly at work in His life.

Hope this finds you all well, keep strong in the Lord and humble in heart. Alex.

So overdue

Oh my goodness it has been wayyyyyy too long since I have been on this and don't have enough time to update now. But I will get back as soon as I can and update on all that's been happening. Hope people haven't given up on us :) We're still plodding along. Can you believe Liana is 1yr next wk (16Mar) Our little baby is growing into an incredible little girl before our eyes.

Talk soon.

Linda xo