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Greetings from a chilly wet Belfast!So it is half term for me this week, which means that I can basically continue on working on my papers and can't necessarily relax! I have three papers needing to be turned in here in the next couple of weeks. The subjects of these papers are: for Theological Reflection, write a 1000 word paper on your first week of college and your experiences within that

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Greetings from a chilly cloudy Belfast!So this is just going to be a quick note to say that I absolutely love my classes here at Belfast Bible College. Yesterday during Biblical Story the class got into a partial discussion about the book of Deuteronomy or probably really to be more specific the book of Joshua. Anyways this class has made a few of us question what we know and really begin to look

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Greetings from an actual sunny day in Belfast!Well yes as you might have guessed from the opening line there I am back in the beautiful Belfast City... sort of. Actually I am currently living in Dunmurry which is actually very close to Belfast but I believe not technically part of Belfast.Anywho, to catch everyone up I did indeed get my visa but i was not able to make orientation on time. I also

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Greetings from a sunny and hot San Antonio, TexasWell it certainly has been awhile since I have last written and I apologize for that as frankly I have no real excuse to give you sorry. Things happened very fast and very quickly these last few months. As my time ended as a Young Adult Volunteer in Belfast, Northern Ireland I had been applying for university in Belfast, more specifically at

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Greetings from a rainy day in Belfast!Just a quick blog here about something that has caught my attention recently here in Belfast. Recently, the UVF (the Ulster Volunteer Force a paramilitary group) in the Shankill area murdered a Father of six because the father and a UVF leader got into an argument. Now what's interesting besides the fact that this is extremely tragic is that before the

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Greetings From Belfast, Northern Ireland!Spring is here... well sort of... if spring means basically it raining most days and it still not making it above 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Not that I'm complaining because I do enjoy the cooler weather that is here. I have gotten used to the cooler weather, or maybe I just ignore it and only picture it as warm weather to try and trick my mind out...We went

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Greetings from a beautiful Belfast, Northern Ireland!Well it has been way to long since I last wrote here, I apologize. Seems things are really just going on same as always with not to much exciting news to share or if there is it's more on a personal level and I'm afraid I am not willing to share that on here. Work is still grand, I love the 174 Trust and Glengormely Presbyterian Church very

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Greetings From Belfast!What a fantastical Christmas break this has been! For the first time in many years I have not had to work during the Christmas season and I was quite terrified that I would be immensely bored throughout these past two weeks. Let me say that I have been so busy that I think I might have preferred to be bored! Starting Christmas day it seems that almost everyday was spent

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Greetings from a Baltic Belfast!Well I am finally getting around to doing my 'homework' as I have been reminded by someone so 'gently' lately. This year is going by much to fast, and I realize again that I have a strong desire to remain in this city! A main part of that is the people here, even though there is still a strong tension underneath the surface between most 'protestants and catholics'

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Greetings from Belfast, Northern Ireland!The holidays are coming however I have noticed distinct differences over here compared to the states. One of the most immediate things you will notice over here is that Christmas lights are basically non- apparent. Only a few houses I have noticed have actually put up any lights at all. Not sure why this is exactly it's just something to get used to, not

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Greetings From a Frigid Belfast!Ach, where to begin!? Had a good past week, as I was on holiday from work away to a small town the south of Ireland called Donegal from Monday to Thursday. A pretty good trip I would say overall, as we spent a day climbing a mountain of which I only went to a certain point due to the fact I was not willing to really risk my life being blown off a mountain with a

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Greetings From a cold, wet, soggy, Belfast!What a good week it has been, more specifically a great weekend! Quite a lot happened it seemed overall, and I am quite tired, but no time for sleep as I leave tomorrow for the YAV retreat to Donegall!At the 174 trust this week, there was no after school program for all the kids were on holiday from school for Halloween/ fall break. It was a little

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Good Evening from Belfast!Quite an interesting week or so since I last wrote. "Work" has been quite fun as usual and I'm realizing that I could be having a call from God to do youth ministry for a career as the kids I have in both the 174 Trust and Glengormely are just absolutely fantastic! Here are a couple of things that have happened to me recently, last Saturday the 17th I got to enjoy the

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Greetings from a cold wet night in Belfast!Let me start by saying that it is great to have our site coordinator, Doug Baker, back with us after is tour of the US talking about World Mission!Life is quite a joy over here with things calming down and starting to become routine. Frankly there is just not to much to report on the work end so I think I will tell a story.A few weeks ago on a Monday

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Greetings on a cool afternoon!Its has been a couple weeks since i last wrote and i apologize. things have not changed too much since i last wrote however things could also never have been better! there is always so much to do here that i never really have time to actually do things!With the 174 things are going well i am immensely enjoying my time with the children in the after school program as

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Greetings From a wet day in Belfast!quite a busy week again this last week! Again I spent time with the 174 boys just getting to know them better and playing some football with them as well. I tell ya, these guys are not to shabby at all when it comes to the skill level of football and I am just barely able to hold my own with them; no real surprise there though considering that I am in a country

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Good Evening from Belfast, Northern IrelandSo how do you put how busy you are in a short amount of space? These past few weeks have really just been a blur of activity and I am quite ready to be able to settle down into the working routine! I am settling in just fine at my flat of which there is a quick tour of it in the video bar to the right of the page. My flatmates are fantastic and I

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Greetings from a cold Northern Ireland!What a crazy past few days it has been! I am just in a complete information overload but frankly I feel that's kind of a good thing. Three days ago we had a barn dance at my flatmate Stephen's host church which was quite enjoyable, then yesterday was an all day seminar about youth worship and what not also very good. Lots of new praise worship music that day

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Greetings from Belfast, Northern Ireland!!Wow! What a week it has been! The information swirling in my head is enough to give a person a migraine.We arrived safley tues. morning here at about 8 a.m. or about 2 a.m. central time. Of course I had no sleep at all on the 8 hour flight over nor did any of the other YAVs really so naturally we were all in that excited sleepy loopy goofy state. The past

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Greetings from the last day at Stony Point, New York!This week has been one of the most enjoyable of my life, the spiritual power in this place has been absolutely insane. My small group was fantastic, worship was fantastic, free time was fantastic, the food was fantastic. As I sit in the common room, I listen to everyone who are sad to be leaving but incredibly excited to where they are going!

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Greetings from Stony Point, New York!The past few days have been quite busy for me with still lots and lots of workshops half of which I am not sure how or if I will use but still it is good information to have. One of my main highlights this weekend was yesterdays workshop where our small groups were different countries with VERY different cultures. I found it quite enlightening on how Americans

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Well technically day three of orientation. overall I would say today was quite enjoyable, our workshops for the past two days have really consisted of learning about ourselves and how to be sensitive to others. Now I can't say that I have been particularly excited to go to these workshops but all in all they have been quite informative even if the material has not been that well presented. We did

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Greetings from Stony Point, New York!My day started quite early today (course not for the teachers out there) with a first stop and layover in Baltimore. After about an hour layover sand meeting up with about nine of us other YAVs (Young Adult Volunteer) we all made about a 45 minute flight to New York City. We then got to wait about 2 and a half hours for our bus to get to Stony Point, where we

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