Comings and Goings
A group of Christian soccer coaches from Northern Ireland have been here all week leading an evangelistic soccer camp here in Youghal. We had a decent turn out and even though it rained some, it has definitely turned out to be a good week. They are finishing up camp today and will head back to the North.
Yesterday, Jessica's dad, brother, and brother's girlfriend came to stay with us for a few days and meet David. It's great to see them!!
Saturday, most of our team is going away one place or another for most of August. That means we'll be responsible for church and an event coming up at the end of August. A lot of it is already planned, though, and we've got lots of help with the great folks at church. It's all good.
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Got One!
We've been trying to catch one of David's smiles on camera and we finally did! Here it is:
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Church Website
Seth built a website for our church here in Youghal. It's not completely done, but it's close - you can find it at:
www.youghalbaptist.ieAll the pictures on it (lighthouse, etc) are from Youghal, some are just edited a bit.
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Medieval Radio
No, there is no such thing. But both will be in this post.
On Saturday we went to a "Medieval" festival at a nearby castle. It was fun - they had demonstrations of cooking, sword fights, jousting, falconry and other middle-ages kinds of things. But they also had WWII soldiers, Romans and belly dancers. Interesting. Oh, and the local radio station was there playing all kinds of things - we even heard some Shania Twain. So yes, evidently medieval and radio CAN go together.
But the main reason "Radio" is in the title of this post is because Seth's mom was interviewed on our teammate Mervyn's radio show last night on Community Radio Youghal. They talked mostly about her work with a crisis pregnancy center in Alabama. The show will not actually air until the 16th.
Labels: Ireland, our ministry
Weather
The weather here is certainly not what we were used to in the States, and now we've found a website that shows just how different it is -
click here for some interesting graphs that show some of the weather averages for Cork. You'll find, for example, that Cork gets an average of 2 hours of sunshine each day from November to February and that the average high for the summer is 64 degrees...
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Smile!
We got some real on-purpose smiles out of David yesterday for the first time! They are GREAT! I'm not sure when we'll be able to catch one on camera, but we'll try to get one for you soon!
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Weekend
Friday night we had a Christian band from Holland come and do a concert in Youghal. Several of the band members grew up as missionary kids in Peru, and some had spent significant time in Ireland before, so the style was quite a mix of Peruvian, Celtic and Dutch... and they sang in three languages as well (but provided translations so we could all understand the message). If that mix of styles sounds interesting to you, you can here samples of their music on
www.combotrinity.nl About 100 people came to the concert, almost half of whom were not connected to our group of churches.
On Saturday Seth took the band to where they could catch a bus to their next show, and in the afternoon we drove over to Blarney Castle to meet up with a couple of Seth's friends from high school that are touring Europe and happened to be in the area!
Sunday the short term team from Texas did the service and afterward we had a barbecue. The Irish call outdoor grills 'barbecues', and if you cook anything on them you are having a barbecue - we had burgers and sausages that were sort of like hot dogs.
The picture is us with Nathan Jackson, Seth's friend from High School
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Daniel's Birthday Party!
Yesterday we had eight of Daniel's friends over (plus parents and a few older siblings) and it was a beautiful day for a birthday party! Half the kids came from the church, and the others were friends from the area. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll let them speak for themselves:
If that's not enough for you, there are a few more posted in the Gallery!
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Grandma's Here
Yesterday Seth picked his mom up at the airport and she'll be here for a couple of weeks to help with the kiddos. Tomorrow we'll have Daniel's birthday party with some kids from church and some from the neighborhood - don't worry, we will take plenty of pictures!
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Happy 4th!
Of course, the 4th of July is just another day here in Ireland, but at least it's a Saturday! We actually have sunshine today, and we had it yesterday, too. Yesterday it actually felt hot for a couple of minutes, which is the first time we've felt that way in at least a week. We also got to grill out yesterday with some friends, so that made it feel more like a holiday weekend.
David has been unpredictable, as babies are, and some nights he makes us wonder who ever coined the phrase "sleep like a baby"... maybe it was supposed to be a curse? Anyway, we are managing to get some sleep here and there and it helps a lot that Daniel takes a long nap every afternoon. He is getting his two-year molars, though, so that makes life a little more interesting.
Speaking of Daniel, tomorrow he'll be 2 years old!! We won't have "official" celebrations until later in the week, but he is already pretty excited!!
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