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| Being able to do calligraphy means sometimes working in places that are a bit out one's comfort zone! |
Members
of POP, it is with great joy that I write to you about the wonderful
experiences we are having during this mission trip to Ireland to work on St
John’s Church, Kill.
We came
here to give the gift of helping restore an old village church. I didn’t know
what specific gifts I could offer or what gifts the other members of the team
could offer. I knew we could offer the love of Christ and hard work. But
restore an old church? Apparently, I am really good at polishing old wood and
brass along with Monica, Tina, Linda, Barbara, Diane, and Nancy. Pastor Jeff,
Jim, Doug, and Barbara are excellent painters. Don is wonderful with a weed
wacker in the rain and holding the ladder for safety. Jim loves to trim bushes
and Tina has calligraphy skills- thank goodness. God has certainly blessed us
with an abundance of gifts to share with our Ireland friends on this mission.
In
return, several of our Ireland hosts have worked laboriously beside us sharing
their skills. Many of them, though, have other things to attend to
such as jobs, children, other volunteer work, or perhaps a health issue that
prevents them working beside us. However, the gifts they have provided us is more
than any of us could have ever expected. They have opened their homes to us,
cooked for us, entertained us, did I mention cooked for us? There is
breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, WOW is all I can say. They are certainly some of
the most wonderful and gracious people I have ever met. You know it is not
a sense of duty that they are doing this for the Americans, but it is a
true gift from God that they have offered us so much of themselves: their time,
talents, and generosity and that they do so gladly, as we work gladly on
their church.
Peace Be With You, Deacon Robin Domm
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