Sunday, February 21, 2010
chapter 2
Tonight I went into the prayer room before bed and brought up my computer to listen to this CD the guest speaker gave me last week. After I was finished I decided to listen to some worship music, I came across old recordings of Chapter 2 from the last night that Steph played with the band. This may have been one of the greatest things to happen to me today. One of the greatest little surprises was it has parts where Kenny or Rob would say something during the set or Jon would randomly scream ( gah that almost made me cry!) , it was such an amazing surprise to hear their voices and the group singing in worship. Skype is cool but there was just something about the surprise of hearing it with my headphones on, made it feel like they were in the room. I remember that night like it was yesterday, how so much has changed since then. New faces have come and old friends have said goodbye, it’s been hard at times but man were they some of the best times. My mind stayed a bit from worshiping, however, I know God did that for a reason. YWAM has been the greatest gift ever, I have been learning a lot and have changed so much since I’ve been here, but no matter who I am, I know where I’ve come from and it was that small little shack in the parking lot of the church that drew me in. How each and every one of you has contributed to me getting here and I will always be so thankful for that. I love you all so much; Chapter 2 was one of the best experiences in my life, its what God used to capture to my heart. I have to admit that I didn’t start going for God, I went for selfish reasons, but that first night I came “From the Inside Out” was played and I was never the same again. That song is on this track list, it means as much now as it did then. So thank you, you all know who you are. You have been the most amazing people I have ever known. I’ll see you all July 31st Ive got a wedding to be at ☺
Thursday, February 18, 2010
sorry its been so long. life is so busy here. just know that god is GREAT. we are good. life is good. its moving and shaking...
i went ice skating last weekend with my darling kate. this amazing family has kinda adopted us in invited us skating for valentines day. its nice to be around a family, espically coming from living with the jones' i need to be around family. they have an amazing son who just loved hanging out with us.
oh and last week someone randomly left me 200 euros for my outreach and then the next day someone left keith 100. such amazing servants listening to God here. so crazy we both have no idea who gave the moneys to us. but it was rad.
keep us in your prayers and our famalies!
we love you all..
ps chapter 2 maybe we could set up a skype date!?
i went ice skating last weekend with my darling kate. this amazing family has kinda adopted us in invited us skating for valentines day. its nice to be around a family, espically coming from living with the jones' i need to be around family. they have an amazing son who just loved hanging out with us.
oh and last week someone randomly left me 200 euros for my outreach and then the next day someone left keith 100. such amazing servants listening to God here. so crazy we both have no idea who gave the moneys to us. but it was rad.
keep us in your prayers and our famalies!
we love you all..
ps chapter 2 maybe we could set up a skype date!?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
mini outreach...1 week in budapest...and 1 week in romania!!!
keith will be a week in budapest and a week back in Dresden, Germany.
interesting to see how God is going to use us in these places....please pray for our finances for this! and for the large outreach in may!
and pray for a wide angle nikon lens to fall from the sky. just looked at all the castles in romania mannn im gonna need a wide angle!!!!
love you all.
ps my mail box is still empty. i think im like the only person who hasnt gotten mail yet. wait i take that back i wrote my mom a letter and it came back to me so i got that in the mail :(
keith will be a week in budapest and a week back in Dresden, Germany.
interesting to see how God is going to use us in these places....please pray for our finances for this! and for the large outreach in may!
and pray for a wide angle nikon lens to fall from the sky. just looked at all the castles in romania mannn im gonna need a wide angle!!!!
love you all.
ps my mail box is still empty. i think im like the only person who hasnt gotten mail yet. wait i take that back i wrote my mom a letter and it came back to me so i got that in the mail :(
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Prague from Irish...
View from the bridge
Same bridge from the other side.
Creepy treee
guard in front of the castle/church we went too
rooftop cafe
looks like venice...or at least thats what im told.
I wonder how many times a day they are photographed
My loves Satori and Katie
Good to know I didn't ruin the moment
Street sax player. I love him!
Would have more photos of architechture if my digital had a wide angle lens :( kinda hating my self for selling it but what can I do. Thought this looked like The Magic Kingdom.
$500 Czech Koruins= maybe 20 US dollars
Random Czech dog...
Friday, February 5, 2010
the prague trip from last saturday
taken from my friend bethany(www.bethanynagan.blogspot.com) about our trip to prague... Yesterday I went to Prague.
Most amazing day ever....
We assembled at 9:45am to leave.
We left the castle at 10:15 after figuring who was really going, who was really driving all the way there, and if anyone needed to take the bus.
By 10:30 we had picked up people in town who didn’t know they were going, but then got shanghai-ed into it, and we were on the road.
By 10:45 we were in the Czech Republic, and exchanging money.
By 11:00 we got lost for the first time
By 11:15 we were back at the same gas station we started from
By 12:00 we were turning around and retracing our path, again. (for the third or forth time)
By 1:00 we were somewhere. (somewhere we had been before…)
By 2:00 we were somewhere closer to Prague, we could see the Praha signs.
By 2:30 we were in Prague.
By 3:00 we were able to actually find parking in Prague.
By 5:30 we were on our way down from the castle, and got a great view of Prague at night
By 5:45 we were eating hotdogs from a street vendor. (So good.)
By 6:00 we were all warm and cozy drinking coffee (at starbucks. Thank you globalization)
By 7:00 we were trying to get back to our vans to go to the airport to pick up our speaker.
By 7:30 we made it to the parking garage
By 7:40 we figured out how to get into the parking garage
By 8:00 we were on the road.
By 8:15 we couldn’t figure out where the airport was
By 8:20 we turned around and found airport signs. Not well marked.
By 8:40 we found the airport. It was not the air port we were looking for.
By 8:50 we figured out we needed to go towards the zoo to get to the real airport.
By 9:20 we were in the zoo parking lot. Oops.
By 10:15 we circled around Prague (a million times) and finally made it to the airport
By 11:00 we thought we were on our way out of Prague with our speaker
By 11:30 we were still in Prague
By 12:00 we were still in Prague
By 12:30 we somehow managed to escape Prague
By 1:00am we stopped at a gas station. This was the 38th gas station we stopped at
By 2:00am we were home and in bed.
The Count:
16 Hours
10 Car Hours
38 Gas Stations
18 times we got lost.
2 hours-the amount of time it's supposed to take to drive to Prague.
Most amazing day ever....
We assembled at 9:45am to leave.
We left the castle at 10:15 after figuring who was really going, who was really driving all the way there, and if anyone needed to take the bus.
By 10:30 we had picked up people in town who didn’t know they were going, but then got shanghai-ed into it, and we were on the road.
By 10:45 we were in the Czech Republic, and exchanging money.
By 11:00 we got lost for the first time
By 11:15 we were back at the same gas station we started from
By 12:00 we were turning around and retracing our path, again. (for the third or forth time)
By 1:00 we were somewhere. (somewhere we had been before…)
By 2:00 we were somewhere closer to Prague, we could see the Praha signs.
By 2:30 we were in Prague.
By 3:00 we were able to actually find parking in Prague.
By 4:00 we were able to have eaten and start exploring the city
By 5:00 we made it across the old bridge (awesome) and to a castle (meh) and to the church inside the castle walls (Amazing. Beautiful.)
By 5:30 we were on our way down from the castle, and got a great view of Prague at night
By 5:45 we were eating hotdogs from a street vendor. (So good.)
By 6:00 we were all warm and cozy drinking coffee (at starbucks. Thank you globalization)
By 7:00 we were trying to get back to our vans to go to the airport to pick up our speaker.
By 7:40 we figured out how to get into the parking garage
By 8:00 we were on the road.
By 8:15 we couldn’t figure out where the airport was
By 8:20 we turned around and found airport signs. Not well marked.
By 8:40 we found the airport. It was not the air port we were looking for.
By 8:50 we figured out we needed to go towards the zoo to get to the real airport.
By 9:20 we were in the zoo parking lot. Oops.
By 10:15 we circled around Prague (a million times) and finally made it to the airport
By 11:00 we thought we were on our way out of Prague with our speaker
By 11:30 we were still in Prague
By 12:00 we were still in Prague
By 12:30 we somehow managed to escape Prague
By 1:00am we stopped at a gas station. This was the 38th gas station we stopped at
By 2:00am we were home and in bed.
The Count:
16 Hours
10 Car Hours
38 Gas Stations
18 times we got lost.
2 hours-the amount of time it's supposed to take to drive to Prague.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Castle life...
I have some time to write now and wanted to update you guys on what a typical day is like for me (irish) here in herrnhut.
First a little about the town, we are about 20 min from the borders of Czech Republic and Poland. The city we live in is called Herrnhut (pronounced HAIRNHOOT) there are about maybe a thousand people who live here…and I think that’s an exaggeration. There are 2 small markets, a german bookstore, a post office, a bank, a toy store and well that’s pretty much it. The stores close at 6 on week days, noon on Saturday and everything in the town is closed Sunday except the one restuarnt we have…the Turkish Doner (sorry I cant spell that word) Herrnhut was the place where the first moravian church was that sent out missionaries back in the day. So its fitting that there would be a YWAM base here. We live in an old castle. Its called the Water Castle for in spring time there is a lake around it. Right now its all frozen and covered in snow. We are in the middle of a forest and to walk to town it’s a twenty-minuet walk thru the woods up a hill called Slow Death. It sometimes feels like that on the way up, so there is definitely a reason for the name. Keith lives in town and has to do that walk many times a day. I live at the castle and do it maybe every other day.
A typical day for the girls here at the castle is getting up around 7 for breakfast, I’m usually woken up by my friend Satori crawling in my bed saying “woman wake up, its breakfast” I love it. Breakfast is usually cereals with nuts, seeds, raisins, cornflakes, and oats…we have a huge basket of bread that is commonly used to spread massive amounts of Nutella on. This is my favorite part of the day. The cereal is amazing and most of the time I wish I could have it for dinner too. I sit with a group of girls in the dining hall and stare up at the wall-sized map we have. We all sit and talk and talk mostly about countries we have never heard of. God has challenged me while here to research a country a day to be more globally aware. Its nice I feel like I’m being prepared for something in it. Who knows but I feel good learning about different nations. After breakfast we have an hour til 830 when we have prayer time. This is usually spent getting ready…showers and such. We are all still in that phase of wanting to look presentable, but I have a feeling that will change soon. Hah. After that there is usually time to read the bible or hang out in the prayer room and just kinda prepare for the day. At 830 we start with some sort of prayer thing for the day, it differs for everyday of the week. At 930 we start with lecture that is lead by a guest speaker for the week. We have been blessed so far with 2 amazing speakers who have really been leading us in hearing Gods voice and The nature and Character of God. I’m learning so much about God and even myself and am already seeing a vast change in who I am. At 11 we have a half hour break for teatime. This is usually spent hanging out in the main hallway drinking tea and eating LOTS of fruit. It’s a nice little fellowship break. We then go back to more lectures til 1 when we go to lunch. Lunch is a nice hot lunch prepared by the amazing kitchen staff. We have had some pretty amazing meals here so far!! That time is used for more fellowship of students and staff and brings time for your one on one meeting with the staff member you’ve been assigned to. They are kinda like your big brother or sister you can confide in and just talk with about stuff that’s going on. 2pm bring work duty time. Everyone is assigned a job to do for 2 hours to help maintain the castle and its appearance. It’s a nice time to kinda just clean and zone out and talk with God. I am assigned the basement and darkroom for 3 days a week, then the other 2 is snow shoveling or gardening ( which there isn’t much of a garden considering all the snow) At 430 we go back for either bible study, small groups, quiet time or art days this goes on til about 6 and differs everyday in the week as well. At 6 we have dinner which are usually sandwiches, which is nice because its doesn’t leave you super stuffed before bed. After dinner we have free time, its usually used for fellowship, darkroom work, alone time and such. I have started to take guitar lessons on Wednesday nights! Usually go to bed around 10 and start the whole thing over again til Friday. Weekends are free days but the town closes early so sometimes we go to the next city over or just hang out. This weekend we went to Prague, Czech Republic for the day. It was amazing. It was one of them trips ill never forget. So much went wrong but we had a blast. Sundays are such peaceful days. There is a church that has a small service that translates into English ( but its still no South Coast ) and after that its just free time. So not what im used to after Sundays in SB always being so busy!!! That’s probably been the hardest part to adjust to. Haha
Today we found out that in March when the last group comes back from their outreach trip, we will be leaving for a 2-week mini outreach. We will all be going to Budapest, Hungary for a week to stay at a YWAM base there and listen to a guest speaker. Then the following week there will be 3 groups and one will stay in Budapest, one will go to Turkey and one to Romania. I know where I want to go but I have to wait for God to tell me. More on that after Thursday. We will be in these places for a week just kinda helping out. Then in May we leave for our real outreach, which we don’t know the locations of yet.
We have been having a great time. Making new friends and starting to develop real friendships that I know are meant to last a long time. The staff is amazing too. Lots of the girls have invited me over for tea and getting to know you time. Its pretty cool.
Don’t really know what else to say. I think Ive said enough for one day.
Xoxo
Irish
First a little about the town, we are about 20 min from the borders of Czech Republic and Poland. The city we live in is called Herrnhut (pronounced HAIRNHOOT) there are about maybe a thousand people who live here…and I think that’s an exaggeration. There are 2 small markets, a german bookstore, a post office, a bank, a toy store and well that’s pretty much it. The stores close at 6 on week days, noon on Saturday and everything in the town is closed Sunday except the one restuarnt we have…the Turkish Doner (sorry I cant spell that word) Herrnhut was the place where the first moravian church was that sent out missionaries back in the day. So its fitting that there would be a YWAM base here. We live in an old castle. Its called the Water Castle for in spring time there is a lake around it. Right now its all frozen and covered in snow. We are in the middle of a forest and to walk to town it’s a twenty-minuet walk thru the woods up a hill called Slow Death. It sometimes feels like that on the way up, so there is definitely a reason for the name. Keith lives in town and has to do that walk many times a day. I live at the castle and do it maybe every other day.
A typical day for the girls here at the castle is getting up around 7 for breakfast, I’m usually woken up by my friend Satori crawling in my bed saying “woman wake up, its breakfast” I love it. Breakfast is usually cereals with nuts, seeds, raisins, cornflakes, and oats…we have a huge basket of bread that is commonly used to spread massive amounts of Nutella on. This is my favorite part of the day. The cereal is amazing and most of the time I wish I could have it for dinner too. I sit with a group of girls in the dining hall and stare up at the wall-sized map we have. We all sit and talk and talk mostly about countries we have never heard of. God has challenged me while here to research a country a day to be more globally aware. Its nice I feel like I’m being prepared for something in it. Who knows but I feel good learning about different nations. After breakfast we have an hour til 830 when we have prayer time. This is usually spent getting ready…showers and such. We are all still in that phase of wanting to look presentable, but I have a feeling that will change soon. Hah. After that there is usually time to read the bible or hang out in the prayer room and just kinda prepare for the day. At 830 we start with some sort of prayer thing for the day, it differs for everyday of the week. At 930 we start with lecture that is lead by a guest speaker for the week. We have been blessed so far with 2 amazing speakers who have really been leading us in hearing Gods voice and The nature and Character of God. I’m learning so much about God and even myself and am already seeing a vast change in who I am. At 11 we have a half hour break for teatime. This is usually spent hanging out in the main hallway drinking tea and eating LOTS of fruit. It’s a nice little fellowship break. We then go back to more lectures til 1 when we go to lunch. Lunch is a nice hot lunch prepared by the amazing kitchen staff. We have had some pretty amazing meals here so far!! That time is used for more fellowship of students and staff and brings time for your one on one meeting with the staff member you’ve been assigned to. They are kinda like your big brother or sister you can confide in and just talk with about stuff that’s going on. 2pm bring work duty time. Everyone is assigned a job to do for 2 hours to help maintain the castle and its appearance. It’s a nice time to kinda just clean and zone out and talk with God. I am assigned the basement and darkroom for 3 days a week, then the other 2 is snow shoveling or gardening ( which there isn’t much of a garden considering all the snow) At 430 we go back for either bible study, small groups, quiet time or art days this goes on til about 6 and differs everyday in the week as well. At 6 we have dinner which are usually sandwiches, which is nice because its doesn’t leave you super stuffed before bed. After dinner we have free time, its usually used for fellowship, darkroom work, alone time and such. I have started to take guitar lessons on Wednesday nights! Usually go to bed around 10 and start the whole thing over again til Friday. Weekends are free days but the town closes early so sometimes we go to the next city over or just hang out. This weekend we went to Prague, Czech Republic for the day. It was amazing. It was one of them trips ill never forget. So much went wrong but we had a blast. Sundays are such peaceful days. There is a church that has a small service that translates into English ( but its still no South Coast ) and after that its just free time. So not what im used to after Sundays in SB always being so busy!!! That’s probably been the hardest part to adjust to. Haha
Today we found out that in March when the last group comes back from their outreach trip, we will be leaving for a 2-week mini outreach. We will all be going to Budapest, Hungary for a week to stay at a YWAM base there and listen to a guest speaker. Then the following week there will be 3 groups and one will stay in Budapest, one will go to Turkey and one to Romania. I know where I want to go but I have to wait for God to tell me. More on that after Thursday. We will be in these places for a week just kinda helping out. Then in May we leave for our real outreach, which we don’t know the locations of yet.
We have been having a great time. Making new friends and starting to develop real friendships that I know are meant to last a long time. The staff is amazing too. Lots of the girls have invited me over for tea and getting to know you time. Its pretty cool.
Don’t really know what else to say. I think Ive said enough for one day.
Xoxo
Irish
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