While being in Ireland with OM, it's such a great experience to immerse yourself in the culture of all nations. We have people here from the Middle East, Asia, South America, and Europe. One of the other girls pointed out that "this is kind of what heaven will be like." All believers from all nations coming together for one purpose - to serve and worship God.
Our group was assigned to put together this month's "prayer emphasis day." On this day, you chose a main theme and pray for that. We chose to do "The Youth of Nations." Today we started the morning session and it went well. We had praise songs and talked about the nonbelieving youth in Ireland who drink away their depression or commit suicide and we had a time of prayer for them. We also prayed for the believing youth who are severely outnumbered here - and we prayed for their strength. Our theme verse is: 1 Timothy 4:12, "Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech in life in love in faith and in purity." I had the opportunity to talk about Rachel Joy Scott, a girl I did a speech on once who was shot at Columbine High School in 1999. I talked about how she lived a 1 Tim. 4:12 life and how we need to pray for youth to be as bold for Christ as she was. It was such a great experience.
The evening program starts tonight and all of the Immersion members are going to give specific prayer requests for their home nations. It should be a neat time. I love how the entire team only found out we were putting this on three days ago and have worked together so well!
New pictures are up on picasa: www.picasaweb.google.com/ozgrl16/ireland
Blessings,
Leanne
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
A week at Lacken House
Well! It has been a busy week here at Lacken House! I'll begin with just the basics of what we're doing!
Tuesday - Friday we have classes from 10:30-4:00. In these classes we study chapters in the Bible, Irish culture, Church history, etc. These classes have been really enlightening and fun! This past week we studied the entire old testament. That part of the Bible has so many stories that we can learn from! We acted out some of the stories, or got into groups and did mini-reports.
On Friday afternoon, we went on a field trip to Clonmacnoise. It is one of Ireland's first monastic sites and dates back to 545 AD. It was BEAUTIFUL! I am putting pictures up soon. [And for those of you who don't know - facebook isn't uploading my pictures so I've had to use my picasa page. You can find the album at: www.picasaweb.google.com/ozgrl16/ireland ] After the fieldtrip, we went to our weekend outing. We were going to help a church on the East side of Irealnd [nearer to Dublin]. The church was having a prayer event and needed help with childcare, so our group entertained children from the ages of 5-15 all day Saturday and taught Sunday School in the morning. We had around 30 - 40 children at once, for only 4 or 5 teachers because some of the other Immersion members had other jobs during the conference. It was tiring - but fun! During the weekend our team grew and we realized how much we already had grown within just the first week as we were missing Lacken House as "home" while away for the weekend. We are happy to be back.
When we got back to the house, we decided that we needed some structure. We were running out of food and funds quickly. :) So one of our super-organized girls [that we all love!] got us together and we made a grocery list, chore list, and teamed up to schedule who would make dinner each night. In fact, last night, I and Whitney made dinner for the house. It was an impromptu recipe of pasta and chicken. And might I say - it was amazing. ;)
Just some fun Irish facts for you too, that I've learned while here:
Lunch is called dinner and dinner is called Tea.
And Irish man will usually never tell you "no" to something directly. Trust me. I've experienced this by offering some food. If the Irishman doesn't want it, they'll simply say "I think I'm good now." They NEVER tell you "No."
The trunk of a car is the "boot."
My favorite: They never say "thirty" like in the states we would say: it's five-thirty. They say it's "half of five."
That's it for now! More pictures to come when I can find the time to upload them on Picasa - just keep checking that link.
Blessings,
Leanne
ps: for those of you wondering, yes - I and the other girls are picking up a slight Irish accent ;) and I've become addicted to tea. :)
Tuesday - Friday we have classes from 10:30-4:00. In these classes we study chapters in the Bible, Irish culture, Church history, etc. These classes have been really enlightening and fun! This past week we studied the entire old testament. That part of the Bible has so many stories that we can learn from! We acted out some of the stories, or got into groups and did mini-reports.
On Friday afternoon, we went on a field trip to Clonmacnoise. It is one of Ireland's first monastic sites and dates back to 545 AD. It was BEAUTIFUL! I am putting pictures up soon. [And for those of you who don't know - facebook isn't uploading my pictures so I've had to use my picasa page. You can find the album at: www.picasaweb.google.com/ozgrl16/ireland ] After the fieldtrip, we went to our weekend outing. We were going to help a church on the East side of Irealnd [nearer to Dublin]. The church was having a prayer event and needed help with childcare, so our group entertained children from the ages of 5-15 all day Saturday and taught Sunday School in the morning. We had around 30 - 40 children at once, for only 4 or 5 teachers because some of the other Immersion members had other jobs during the conference. It was tiring - but fun! During the weekend our team grew and we realized how much we already had grown within just the first week as we were missing Lacken House as "home" while away for the weekend. We are happy to be back.
When we got back to the house, we decided that we needed some structure. We were running out of food and funds quickly. :) So one of our super-organized girls [that we all love!] got us together and we made a grocery list, chore list, and teamed up to schedule who would make dinner each night. In fact, last night, I and Whitney made dinner for the house. It was an impromptu recipe of pasta and chicken. And might I say - it was amazing. ;)
Just some fun Irish facts for you too, that I've learned while here:
Lunch is called dinner and dinner is called Tea.
And Irish man will usually never tell you "no" to something directly. Trust me. I've experienced this by offering some food. If the Irishman doesn't want it, they'll simply say "I think I'm good now." They NEVER tell you "No."
The trunk of a car is the "boot."
My favorite: They never say "thirty" like in the states we would say: it's five-thirty. They say it's "half of five."
That's it for now! More pictures to come when I can find the time to upload them on Picasa - just keep checking that link.
Blessings,
Leanne
ps: for those of you wondering, yes - I and the other girls are picking up a slight Irish accent ;) and I've become addicted to tea. :)
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