Sunday, April 29, 2007

Friends, Bar-B-Q's and Texas Hold'em Poker


I had a most enjoyable evening last night at Mr Greys house... so much so that I'm writing a quick blog about it to boast about beating the two champions that are Dave and Ash at Poker. Crow did come first, Joy second with the beginners luck and I; third but a few flukey bluffs.

Don't you just love the hot summers evenings when you can sit outside with old friends, eat and have some fellowship together. This summer's going to be good!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

19 years old

I remember last year being absolutely freaked out at the thought of turning 18 years old and becoming an adult so I was surprised when I woke up this morning turning 19 feeling as if I was ready to turn 21 or 22. This year has most definately been a maturing one.

Lindsay died on Sunday morning and so the funerals today. I am absolutely gutted for Alain and the family. We have lost someone so so beautiful and no words can express this situation.

Please keep the family in your prayers and lets hope this last year of teenage life is as good as the past ones...

Friday, April 20, 2007

Pray for Lins



Check out Alain's blog on the left hand side...

Blessed is she who considers the poor; The Lord will deliver her in time of trouble.
The Lord will preserve her and keep her alive. And she will be blessed on the earth; He will not deliver her to the will of her enemies.
The Lord will strengthen her on her bed of illness; She will sustain her on her sickbed. Psalm 41:1-3

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Bassano Del Grappa

This has most definately been the busiest 5 days ever since getting back on thursday so I'm only getting round to writing up about my time in Italy now.

...It was incredible!! The place where we were, Bassano del Grappa, is one hour from Venice and right at the foot of the Italian Alps. Such beauty.

The couple we stayed with, Iain and Moni were amazing and not only did they welcome us into their home but they treated us as family. So much so that Moni was like another Mum and Iain was another Dad for Joey. They loved us.

The Church was great. It's really big and has the potential to hold alot more people than the average 40 who go to it. It's situated above two supermarkets, a bar, a beauty salon and right next to a strip club.

We spent time handing out flyers for the church service and easter eggs in the town centre on saturday. Had a worship event that evening and on the Sunday we took the church service. It was great. The language was a slight barrier but we soon picked up the basics and learned to speak slowly for those who hadn't much experience with English. We also had the priviledge of going out to dinner with the english learning students from the church, these guys aren't christians so it was cool to tell them about taking this year out to work for the Church. They were really interested in it.

We had a lot of time to do some sight seeing stuff, we went to the beautiful Lake Garda, went up to the top of the mini Alps (I forget the name of them). That was incredible, it was 26 degrees at the bottom and an hours journeys to the top there was 4 foot of snow. And on our last day we went into Venice. (The photo is St. Marks Square)

The trip was definately unforgetable. We laughed so much and God definately blessed us while we were out there. I just hope we got to bless others.

Photos of Italy

At the Airport.


Playing Basletball at the park with some random kids..


Abbie and I bowling


..in the snow


Janene and Colin Skiing


Driving on the opposite side of the car and road!! fun, fun, fun!


From Left to Right; Adam, Moni, two ladies from the church, Mama Cuba, Gabrielle, Nathan and in front Colin and Joey.


Dinner on our last night together


Romance in Venice

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Departing for Italy..


I'm off to Italy in a few hours. Quite excited!! I haven't actually packed one thing yet, I'm such a last minuter.. Just checked out the weather and it looks like it will hit a hot 20'C, ha!

This will be my second 'mission' trip, although with this one the information of what we'll be doing has been very vague. All we know is that a church was planted recently and we're going to help them get sorted and recruit new members!

The team consists of 3 Northern Irish, 4 Canadians and 2 Australians so it'll be fun!! Keep us and my fellow interns, Drew whos going to Brazil and Laura and Indya who are off to Thailand, in your prayers...

Hopefully I'll get to blog again when I'm away..