Ireland, cont.

I haven't kept up on a daily basis with this blog and there is so much to tell that I will never get caught up. So...

I'm going to give a quick overview of our time here so far and include a few pictures as well.

Beginning Sunday, the 27th of August:

We attended two churches -- Trinity (www.trinity.ie) in the morning and Core (www.corechurch.ie) in the evening. We met a few people that we plan to get together with later to talk about worship and how we might be able to assist them in our ministry.

We had an interesting meeting Monday morning meeting with other missionaries. We were there to meet and talk with the board members of Church Planting Resources, a group of missionaries from various organizations formed to strategize and share resources for the purpose of building the church in Ireland.

I finally got my insulin Wednesday morning. Fortunately it wasn't critical that we leave for the west of Ireland Tuesday.


We had hoped to connect with some people in the Galway area while were traveling, but that never happened due to various circumstances. We did have some good days of sightseeing and getting familiar with that area of the country.


Saturday we had a great time in Shannon leading a worship workshop with the worship band of Jamzone, a youth ministry lead by Elton Goode of Shannon Evangelical Church. It's kids like this that are the future of the church in Ireland.

Saturday evening we drove to Cork and stayed in a really awful Bed and Breakfast. I'll try and relate this saga at a later date.

Sunday morning we were at Grace Fellowship. Monday, we met with Michael O'Donovan, the worship leader at Grace and had a really encouraging conversation. We are planning to do a worship workshop with his worship team next time we come to Ireland (maybe January).

Although it didn't work out to meet with him, we spoke with Laurence Graham, the pastor of Cork Methodist about meeting with him and one of his key musicians who has a heart to see contemporary worship in their church. We will also look to doing this when we return.

Tuesday morning we met with Michael Neglia, pastor of Calvary Chapel Cork , his wife Rachel and their worship leader, Niamh (pronounced Neeve). It was the beginning of a long term relationship and we plan to meet up again on our next visit and perhaps pull together a workshop for several worship leaders in the area.

Tuesday night we were back in Dublin and had a great time of playing and worshipping with several guys who are traditional Irish musicians and a part of a new church plant. We also had good conversation about leading worship and arranging music, etc.

Today we are meeting with one of the worship team members from Trinity, so I guess I'd better close for now.

Cheers...