Friday night was an amazing evening as we had some 35 people in our home at one point. If you knew the size of our kitchen/dining area you would understand that is quite a feat to be accomplished! Those in attendance included our family, our friends the Stewarts visiting this week from the States, our teammates the Laughlins, their son Andrew's family who is also visiting, our teammate Stephanie, our friends the Grahams stopping through on their way to London, and of course, 15 of the cell mates. The evening was filled with laughs, fun, burgers, sausages, desserts, corn hole, guys vs. girls game of Guesstures, sunshine (we don't take the for granted), new faces and familiar faces.
The purpose for the evening was to continue to build and deepen relationships with those who have been attending the Cell study, and also to provide an opportunity for them to bring friends, which they did. Four guests who have yet to come to the study came to the barbeque which was exciting, two of whom were Brazilian, Ricardo and Fran (pictured below with our friend David Graham who visited that evening along with his wife Carol).
I have to say that the game of corn hole was a HUGE hit amongst the cell mates! They absolutely loved it! It was great fun to watch! Also, the sun was shining for most of it, which was an act of God as it had been raining nearly all day up until the bbq! Amazing! Well into the night, nearly seven hours after the first person arrived, the house was emptying. As each cell mate, new or familiar, was leaving we invited each to the next study as well as gave them a copy of the
dvd entitled THE HOPE which beautifully details in video form the story of hope running through Bible.
After returning from dropping some of the cell mates home Andrea, myself, and our friends, Clay and Susan, stayed up a bit just sharing in the joy of the evening. Truly Kingdom work took place that evening for which we are grateful to have played a part.
Saturday was a recovery day mainly, reviewing for Sunday's speaking engagement, and taking the boys to a birthday party for one of their schoolmates. The Stewarts journeyed into Dublin city centre for a bit of seeing the sites.
Today we headed down to Ballycullen Community Church where I spoke in the morning to provide some speaking support to the church as they are currently without a pastor. After the service we joined the others from the church for a bbq they were having at one of the elder's homes. It was great craic (good fun)! We arrived back home about 3:30 in the afternoon and once the kids were down for bed we played a game with our friends which was great fun.
Tomorrow we head up to Malahide Castle to show some of the sites in that quaint village area, and to meet up with our friends the Laughlins and their family who is visiting.
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