Jan - Aug 2022

2022 has been a busy one! To start, the first five months were filled with lots of travelling. For January and February I was on outreach in Wales and Albania with the 2021/22 Kingdom DTS. In March the school graduated and we had an all YWAM Ireland staff gathering here at An Cuan, the first one in person since 2019!

April was full of different ministries. We hosted another An Cuan Market, a pop-up restaurant, a storytelling event. I ran a baking workshop for the Called to Create DTS and participated in bucket collection fundraisers. I turned 25, and went on a fun holiday to Enniskillen, a nearby town with some friends! We had a few YWAM Rostrevor staff days talking about living and working in multicultural environments. There was a WISE gathering at the end of the month - a YWAM gathering for every team in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England. This year the gathering was held in Harpenden, England. In May we had the 10th annual BorderWalk, a 200 mile pilgrimage prayer walk along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. I wasn't able to participate this year because I spent May at home in America! This was the first time since I moved to Rostrevor in 2019 that I've been able to visit home and I used it as a chance to surprise my mom for American Mother's Day. It was a great time connecting with my family, my church and home community!

A few days after I arrived back in Rostrevor, in June, we hosted an environmental event, did more bucket collections, and started getting ourselves sorted for Fiddler's Green. I also started co-leading the hospitality department again. I also decided to shave my head and see what it was like! July was jam packed and started off with hosting a Mission Adventures team for a week. We were able to send a team of our own to a week long Christian youth festival called Summer Madness and to finish it off we acted as a venue for the week long music/community festival called Fiddlers Green. Fiddlers Green is an annual festival that the entire village of Rostrevor puts on and people from all over come to attend. Sadly it's been postponed the past few years due to the pandemic but this year we were able to run it again. This year we were one of the biggest venues and operated as a stage, workshop space, and cafe! I helped lead the baking dept and it was a lot of fun! We jumped right into August with a week long multicultural family camp and then another week long kids camp. Both of these were great ways to connect with the local community in Rostrevor! We also had another YWAM Ireland staff gathering, this one in Enniskillen. The C2C DTS graduated, I've planned a few different farewell parties for people moving on from Rostrevor, and planned a baby shower for some good friends of mine! Needless to say it has been a very busy, but very good year so far.

Moving into September looks like a shift of responsibilities and focus as I get closer to moving to Wales. I'd appreciate your prayers as I fully enter this time of transition in stepping back from An Cuan and allowing time for rest before I move to Cardiff. I do have specific prayer requests in regards to the financial provision of moving costs, all in all it'll cost around £600 to cover all of the different fees. If you are interested in hearing more about this need and how to donate, please let me know! I'm officially moving the 4 November and am excited about all that is to come, thank you for praying for me and with me in this transitional season!