Last week I read an article about someone in New York who had become so concerned about members of his community struggling to afford to eat that he built and stocked a food box in his front garden/yard. As his neighbourhood heard about his initiative, people who had the means to helped him keep it…
Because You’re Loved: Hospitality
At the risk of embarrassing them recently we celebrated the receipt of our visas with two of our closest friends. Over the years we have known them we have created many memories together, but one of them particularly, we often laugh about. It was one of the first occasions we had the pleasure of really…
Because You’re Loved: Liberation
There is something that feels a little strange about navigating some of the process of relocating to the States on a day like today. Not strange in a bad way but just an entertaining sort of strange, that my slightly odd sense of humour finds weirdly amusing as we ready our selves to move to…
Infinite Story
It is a cold grey June day here in Northern Ireland, so much so it is hard to believe in just a few weeks many of our wild adventurous missionaries will be finishing up their 10 month training with us. Some of them will be packing up and leaving our shores to pursue new adventures…
General Election 2017 – Hope Over Fear
Whatever the results lets choose hope over fear. Here is an observation I wrote after the Brexit referendum which I think is still resoundingly true in the 2017 General Election context. “The media love an outspoken controversial figure to inflame public interest. So they find the most obnoxious people from either viewpoint to spout their…
In Pursuit Of Dreams
Last week I bought some Luggage. It was the bargain of a century, but as it turned out, it was too good to be true and was in fact a scam. Amazon very efficiently noticed there was something not right and even before I had to flag up the problem they contacted me to refund…
Watch Out USA pt 5
Last Wednesday we flew over to London for our visa interviews at the American Embassy on Thursday morning. It is long and not very interesting story why we had to go to London but our appointment was for 8:30am so we joined the commuters traveling across London in the morning rush. This being our first…
Watch out USA pt4
Nearly 4 years ago we were expecting our 3rd child in July. It was a busy time. In reflection in many ways it feels like the visa process has been a bit like a pregnancy, full of adjustment and a fair amount of uncertainty. Thankfully we are drawing near the end of that process, our…
Watch Out USA update 3
We are still waiting for our visa … However over the last few weeks we have continued to work hard on various aspects of the transition for our teams here in Northern Ireland. As mentioned previously the intention is for our good friends Pete and Bryony to widen their oversight to cover Pais here in…
Watch out USA Update 2
Two weeks ago we announced some news about a new adventure we are preparing to embark on and have been busy doing what we can to get ready for the new role with the Pais Movement and relocating the family to Arlington, Texas. We are still waiting on our visas but we have begun selling many…