Apprentice

Wow, 10 days since I last posted, there’s a lot I should have written on already. Sorry about that.

Yesterday I gave my first sermon at my home church*. Don’t ask me how it went. It all feels like a blur but I have been assured that it was not just a blur to the listeners. I said all that I wanted to say, I think. Anyway you can judge for yourself since the recording is online here.

My friend Carmel came down to see me preach and we got to hang out in Cahir for a few hours. We went to Cahir Castle but between my rubbish phone camera and Carmel’s flat batteries we couldn’t really take many pictures. Just trust me it was good. It was good to have a friend there on the day (not to say that my church brothers and sisters aren’t friends, but you know what I mean), preaching is understandably made easier when this is your audience:

The banners for the church arrived on the 18th**. They look great! Peter and I are going to try to hang one of them on Tuesday after our meeting. Please pray that nobody dies.

On Saturday the 21st** Sam let me know the Scripture he was going to preach on the next day. I was able to make a bi-lingual Scripture printout for the Romanian kids so they could more easily follow along with us. Unfortunately they never showed up that Sunday. I did the same for yesterday and they didn’t show up either. Please pray that we haven’t lost the kids, it was great having them there.

I’ve been really rubbish at my time management lately. I think the sense of dread I feel when I wake up on work days might have something to do with it. It’s hard to be efficient and productive when you’re depressed. I really am not sure what’s supposed to happen here - the job really is getting hard to bear, I haven’t been this depressed in a long time. I feel myself being pushed out to go somewhere else but I don’t see anywhere else I can go to. I need a job that I can do, that will let me still go to IBI, and is not my current job, but such jobs don’t seem to exist.

* Second sermon in total. My first sermon is online here.

** This un-natural listing of dates is one of the prices I pay for waiting so long to post. Sorry.