Last Few Months.

It seems counter cultural to say, but things have been very busy here in Ireland. About mid-Oct things should start to slow down but for now its full speed. Of course I thought things would be calm after the summer months with all the teams. Since then I have said good-bye to many missionaries who have returned to their passport countries after completing their work. Then off to GO Conference I went. Two weeks of learning about how to do Personnel with OM and picking up a bunch load of new recruits for the field. Many of them joining our Immersion Team, which is the gap year programme geared towards teaching the participants about being missionaries followed by placement in local churches in Ireland. So after the two weeks of refreshing fellowship and learning much about OM at the conference, I return back to Lacken House which is now housing 12 people, most of which are young adults. Good-bye silence and hello motherhood. ;) The first week with all the new kids, I spent teaching and orienting everyone to the field; what we like to call Orientation Week. The Immersion Team has now begun their classes on theology, missions, evangelism, etc. I get the honor of teaching three of those classes over the next few weeks. Last weekend we had our staff retreat which was a time of fellowship, food and worship. Oh and of coming down with a nasty virus, it seems that many of us came down with a head cold mixed with fever following the retreat. I am still trying to recover from said illness. I am also currently working on a staff workshop that will be held in Oct on Team Building with all of the staff in Ireland. So please pray as I work on the content and for the presentation, since I don’t really like talking in front of people. That is the short recap of the last month or two and a little look into the following month for me here in Ireland.