Ice skating; a traditional Irish sport?

Hello, This is Kelsie with your first update from NET Ireland Team 1. I hope you're all doing well in this first week of Advent. It's hard to believe that it's already December. These first few months have flown by. They say that time flies when you're having fun, and it must be true because our team is certainly enjoying the ministry and all that comes along with it.

This past weekend we had our first supervisor visit and we learned a lot about how we are already working well as a team, but more importantly about how we can work to become better and more effective instruments for God this year. As a fun surprise, Matt & Sheila brought us all to do a particularly Irish activity, ice skating in Dublin! Just kidding, it's not really Irish, but it was still fun. While skating is an activity that is well known and loved by most of the Canadian and American members of the team, for Ireland's Tanya it was a totally new experience. But I must say, she did very well and even skated a bit on her own towards the end of the night. Our whole team was in agreement that it was a good time even with the minor bumps and bruises sustained.

This week we've also been blessed to witness God teaching us through the young people we've met on retreat. Personally the eagerness toward prayer and Confession shown by one group of confirmation candidates reminded me that God us wants us all to have that same childlike faith and to turn to Him with absolutely no apprehension. Sometimes we go into retreats with the mindset that we are there to teach the young people, but the reality is that God can choose any person to teach us a lesson about Him!

The weather here has changed from wet to wetter & colder, but we haven't seen any snow yet. Honestly though that is fine with me, I know I'll get my fill of snow when I go home for Christmas. Speaking of Christmas, we go on break in just two weeks, however, until then I am completely in love with being here and serving God with our team!
Please continue to pray for us in our ministry!
God bless,

Kelsie Grimes
Team 1

Ps:Hopefully there will be pictures to go with this soon!