by emma | Jul 24, 2005 | Photography
Ah good times…
So I’m back from Portstewart (i know, im sorry, the blogs a bit scattered at the minute, it will be most of the summer probably!). I had such a lovely time away, i did very litte, just messing about and resting really, it was great! Ah…. how I love to be beside the sea.
I turned 18 there on Friday… scary thoughts, I suppose I should start and be semi-responsible now!! Went out for a meal in a new Italian place, which was lovely… until they brought out a cake and made a big deal out of it! I liked the lights…
We took a trip round to Carrick-a-rede rope bridge one day, was the first time I’d been there. It’s funny how easily we can forget how beautiful our own country is… man I love this place!!
by emma | Jul 16, 2005 | Everything Else
well I’m off on holidays for a few days now. My family and I are heading down to Portstewart for a week, so we will most likely do very little and have a great time doing it! It will of course mean trips to Barry’s Amusements, several beaches, the swimming pool, Coleraine, Portrush, Portstewart, Carrick-A-Reed rope bridge, and who knows where else. Unfortunatley this means my blog will be down all week pretty much, I doubt I’ll get internet access…. nooo! Anyway… have a great week guys and I’ll see you all soon!
by emma | Jul 14, 2005 | Photography
Hey guys, sorry its been so long! Somehow I just forgot to actually update this with pics and stuff from SonShine, so here goes, big long post…
Key verse… “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.” Matt 5:16
Rebuilding the alter of the Lord… this was key throughout the week for volunteers.
Kids club… all 275 of them!
Cleaning the pub toilets, every morning… got some fantastic conversations.
Andrew playing at the Wednesday evening event.
Giving out free newspapers every morning…
Grafitti competition…
The light feature… this always raised questions like, ‘what on earth?’ It has 131 bulbs on it- one for every SonShine volunteer… letting our light shine!
And so the madness is over for another year… or maybe its only the beginning?
by emma | Jul 9, 2005 | Faith
well folks its been a crazy week, but it has also been an awesome week. im reminded of how great our God is again! SonShine has been brilliant, and i have loved being a part of it again. I think one of my favourite moments this week was cleaning the toilets in the Fairhill Bar on Wednesday. Jonny had a really great chat with one of the barmaids for ages, and it really hit home again how powerful simple things can be. All week long we cleaned pub toilets, the bookmakers floor, gave out free newspapers, gave away a playstation, mp3 player, beauty packs etc. I love watchin God move through simple things like that. I will post some pictures in time, but for now im catching up on some sleep! check out allys pictures on his SonShine blog, sonshine2005.blogspot.com
by emma | Jul 1, 2005 | Everything Else
Things are really kicking off now… big prayer meeting last night (Seekin’ Meetin – because we’re seeking Gods face) and a prayer breakfast tomorrow morning, before we start on Monday morning.
by emma | Jun 30, 2005 | Photography
New camera!
by emma | Jun 27, 2005 | Photography
I went to the park on Saturday afternoon and took some pictures, it was such a beautiful afternoon…
by emma | Jun 25, 2005 | Exodus
I have had soooo little sleep over the last few days! Last night was the Exodus commissioning service, so I met up with the guys on my team. We had a great night, the service was fantastic and it felt so short, even though it was half ten before the service finished, and another hour before we actually left! After that we headed out round to Portstewart for some scran, and then down onto the beach. (Go Pizza Express, by the way, great food!)
By the time I got home and into bed it was 2 am. We then had a fundraising event this morning, a car boot sale, and we were meeting at 6 am to set up etc. So I was out of bed again at 5 am – a whole 3 hours in bed! Great fun. As you can imagine I am knackered now, and am just about to get ready and head to work! Hopefully it will be a nice quiet night, just ally and me in tonight I think.
More later… maybe when I wake out of this semi-zombie like state!
by emma | Jun 24, 2005 | Faith
Last night a guy from Calvery Chapel spoke at the Wash Basin, and it was a great night. Think the thing I took from it most was simply to appreciate the word ‘so’ – a word that implies the following word cannot posibly describe what it wants to convey. For example ‘so great’ meaning its greater than the word great can describe.
Last night we also launched a new team, called the Love Foundation. It will endevour simply to say ‘we love you’ to some of the very special people in our lives. To launch last night, they presented Tony with a wee dog. It was beautiful to watch these guys with tears in their eyes as they just showed him how much we appreciate him. I have to admit, there were tears close to my eyes too. The transformation in Tony’s life has been incredible.
It got me thinking about ‘broken’ people again. The WB has afforded me the opportunity to meet so many people from walks of life I never imagined… drug addicts, alcoholics, etc. It seems to be these guys that have the greatest capacity to love. Maybe it is like the guy said last night, maybe it is because their deliverance has been great. It’s playing on my mind heavy at the minute, I re-read Red Moon Rising again (very strategic book for school CU!) and have a quote running through my head…
“But maybe the call the pray is a call to bleed as well as to recieve blessing.”
What if God is calling us as a generation, to feel the pain all around us. This truly is a generation that seems to be hurting more profoundly than any other- just look at the suicide rates, among young people especially. And we know that prayer changes everything. So what if, as God calls us back to prayer, He’s really calling us to hurt? To feel the pain around us. To weep for the broken people. To meet them in their pains, rather than ‘pray from a distance’.
Where do we go from here?
by emma | Jun 21, 2005 | Music, School
… No more exams!! Happy days. Man its been too long since I last posted… sorry guys. Exams are finally over, had my last one this morning, ICT module 2. Went well i think! Now that they’re out of the way I have a bit more free time to concentrate on important stuff – like SonShine week, and the likes.
So next thing… Foy!
The guy is incredible! I went to hear him play in Belfast on Friday night, and he blew me away again. Was the first time i’d heard him perform with a band, and it was impressive- im looking forward to his EP finally coming out. You can check his stuff out here. If you havent heard him yet – make the effort to go see him! Big things are a-coming.
That’ll do for today me thinks.
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