I've realized just how much I miss this special part of my "past" (pre-marriage) life. (mission's trips.) ;-) It has been a faith building and walk encouraging trip thus far. Specifically in our relationships at Kitty's Road (where we're spending all of our time). God has allowed for natural friendships to develop. And out of those, He's allowed a searching desperate and heart broken (suicide-stricken) community ask questions about why we believe, act, do, say, and love the way we do... and we've been able to plainly share about our Living God with them and model a walk with Him in a real and "normal" way. If you think of it, their are four people in the the Kitty's Road neighborhood that we've been able to reach out to more and have connected with, please pray for them, as these are the ones already asking us how to read the Bible why are we so different, where does our joy come from, etc... a wife and her husband (who broke his pinkie today teaching us and Irish game) and and another wife and husband (who two days ago broke his foot quite bad and is in the hospital in a room where the TV doesn't work- our guys visited him and chatted and left a Bible there... he has little else to do, and had previously been highly involved in conversations with our men showing interest). If Gd brings them to himself there would likely be a slew of trusting followers. They are a tight-knit neighborhood.
Throughout the morning kids hang-out program and teens evening game-playing and sharing time I've had the opportunity to share the Gospel with three kids and encourage several moms during a very fun "moms/ladies" tea and coffee. It's been a blast.
This morning I was woke by the sheep baaaa-ing away. and the mist/fog rolling over the mountains. I hope to post some pictures sometime. A few of us also went to Newry today to run a few errands and along the way saw the ever-beautiful green country side of Ireland and amongst our errands got to go to a very old castle/historical site. -Quite fun.
Thanks everyone for praying! It's off to the teens time tonight right now.
hugs, manda
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