Monday, September 16, 2013

Connection - Ireland Day 2


                                                        CONNECTIONS

 

We’ve only been here two days and I already see connections. Many of the church members we’ve met have visited the States. One family had spent several years in Brooklyn while the father earned at Columbia.  Several folks had been to New York, although it was New York City and not upstate. There is a family from St. David’s with a  connection to a family from Oregon. The daughter, enjoys making cupcakes,  something she learned from a friend in the States.

Many people had ancestors who migrated from Ireland to America. In a twist, one woman’s great grandmother  came to America but went back to Ireland for a family gathering but never returned to the States.

 

As we paint and do clean up activities, we are making connections of a differ sort. Paint will fade and clean ups will have to be repeated. However it is my hope that the friendships we make during this mission trip will be long lasting. Wouldn’t it be nice if ten or twenty years from now, the people the Naas congregations think of us and talk about our visit? I’m quite sure our mission group will do the same.

 

Jim Greenfield

Written from Naas, Ireland

16 Sept 2013               

 

 

               

 

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