A Good Weekend

Yesterday we moved to Phil and Cheryl Kingsley's house since we were never able to get on line at the flat in Rathmines. We will stay here for the remainder of the month when we're in Dublin.

Phil left today for meetings in Germany and Cheryl flew to the US last week, so we have the house to ourselves for a few days. It's good to stay here. We are saving a lot of money and Phil and Cheryl are very sensitive to our need for time to ourselves, which is the main reason we had booked the flat.

Now on to our weekend happenings. Yesterday we met with Alex and Linda Gason, whom we have known for a couple of years now. They are the youth leaders at City Gates in Cabinteely. We were expecting to simpy get caught up with friends and find out if there was anything we could do to help them in their minsitry. What we didn't expect was to find out about their plans to join with Operation Mobilisation (OM) Ireland as missionaries to theirhttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif own land. In an interesting twist, we found ourselves giving advice to an Irish couple as to how to raise support and minister to their own countrymen.

Today, we were in Clondalkin at New Life Community Church. Their youth band was leading worship this morning and then we met with them over lunch and through the afternoon, discussing worship leading and spending time in a practicum. It's a challenge when you're working with a talented group of musicians that only need a little encouragement and not a lot of direction. They were very good and did a nice job leading worship. It's also a challenge working with youth in particular, as you don't get a lot of feedback. You wonder if you are getting anywhere and if they are enjoying the workshop at all. The answer came in the form of a question, when we asked them if they had anything that they wanted to ask us. The first question was, "Will you be coming back?" What a wonderful thing to hear. They like us - they really like us!

We're looking forward to working with them more in the future and Michael and Trish Carroll, who are the main worship leaders and at whose house we were meeting made it clear that they want us to return in the future.

Tomorrow we'll be in the city centre for a meeting and then spend some time preparing for our time in the Czech Republic. We've been asked to lead a set of worship while we're there, so we are looking forward to that.

I have no idea what our Internet access will be like while we are there, so if you don't hear from us for a while, you'll know why.