Knickerbocker Glory

We arrived in Greystones, via Dart train, around 6pm last night. The weather was horrible and luckily we were able to get in touch with Gwen Montgomery (Gwen's husband, Monty (David) is the pastor at Greystones Presbyterian Church) who was able to pick us up instead of us walking as we had originally planned. We are now staying at The Slievemore Bed and Breakfast with Pippens and Stan, the owners. We had our first experience in a real Irish pub. It was pretty much what I had imagined: people sitting around drinking pints and socializing. The time with Gwen and Monty was really good as we learned much about their ministry in the community of Greystones. What I gather from them, as well as from Paige whom we met up with Friday night, is that the Irish are pretty non-committal when it comes to fellowship. They will come to church on Sundays for the Sunday service but don't want take part in anything outside of that. The lack of community can lead to frustration and burn-out very quickly. I was reminded, once again, just how blessed I am to have the fellowship and community that I have.

I'm presently sitting in a restaurant with Whitney, using the wi-fi. There is no place to plug in the computer so I'm going to have to cut it short today. I hopefully will write more later. I want to tell you about the worship service we went to today.

Here is a photo of me from St. Stephen's on the Green, a park/garden area in Dublin. Well, nevermind; the wi-fi signal is too low.