5 Summer Prayers

1. Please pray for Rachel.
   • Rachel will be helping us with the kids so both Katy and I can get out to do more ministry. Eden has already connected with her wonderfully. Let's pray for Rachel as she goes through cultural adjustment away from family.
2. Please pray for students in Carlow and Dublin.
   • As we enter into the summer months, let's pray for them to remain focused on what God has been doing in their lives. Let's also pray for next year's leaders. Much training will be done this summer in preparation for the Autumn semester. 
3. Please pray for CONNECT.
   • CONNECT is our annual summer training conference. We look to be taking as many as six students from Carlow and Dublin! This is such an important trip for these students as they receive practical training, bond together with like-minded students, and hear from God. Let's pray for God to speak clearly and provide safe travels.
4. Please pray for our new baby.
   • Every scan and doctor appointment points to a perfectly healthy baby and healthy momma. We are so grateful, especially coming off a miscarriage last summer. We cannot wait to meet this new little boy, and Eden is excited to be a big brother. (He has no idea how much his life will be disrupted. Ha.)
5. Please pray for our visa.
   • At the time of writing this we still have no word regarding our visa. We are confident that God is paving the way for our journey here. Please pray for us to remain confident and for the immigration officer who has received our case. We pray blessing on her/him regardless of the decision made.

Thanks you so much for your prayers and support. Together, we are striving to bless the university students of Dublin, Carlow, and Ireland.

Rachel: Our Newest Team Member

Yesterday we picked up our newest team member from the airport - Rachel Reilly! She will be here until the end of November and will be working with us to help care for Eden and Baby Edgmon, freeing me up as well as Blake to meet with students and do other ministry work. 

We started praying early last year that God would bring us someone to help out with childcare - it’s tough to be thousands of miles away from family members and having to cut ministry efforts almost in half. While our first ministry is to our children, we do also have a responsibility to continue in what God has called us to here in Ireland with university students. Rachel is an answer to prayer and will be an integral part of God’s movement here on campuses across the nation. 

Please be in prayer for her as she acclimates to life here, gets over jet lag, and gets to know our precious first born (who is a force of nature to be reckoned with). We are so thankful for her and are excited to get to know her more!

(Also, many of you have been asking. We are still waiting to hear back about our visa. Please pray. Our current visa will expire in 18 day. We are at peace that God will provide.)

Fast Food or Fast Faith

Matthew 14:13-21 - When Jesus fed the 5000, we get fixated on the kid with the fish and bread. But it's not about the kid (in the Matthew version that I read, he's not even mentioned). It's about Jesus and what he did...and what he asked the disciples to do in the first place. 

They suggested a logical thing - it's getting dark. There's no food here. There's food in nearby villages. People should go find some dinner before they're stumbling around in the dark looking for a KFC before it closes. Jesus, out of the blue, tells them to produce some food for them. What?

And here it is: when he asks us to do something, go somewhere, give something, talk to someone, etc....and we lack the obvious resources...what is our response?

In the story, the disciples actually started asking around for food. They had nothing to offer in and of themselves, so they gave their small resource to Jesus. He made it happen, gave it back to them, and they ended up feeding a ton of people. 

Was it their ingenuity and quick thinking that saved the day? No. It was all the grace of God. When our resources look skimpy, we shouldn't panic. We shouldn't give up the task because there isn't an abundance of stuff/knowledge/money/time in front of us. God has the ability to provide that abundance. We need to be faithful with the scraps in our basket. He can turn those scraps into a feast. 

We write this post to challenge and encourage ourselves. We pray it blesses you as well.  Thank you for your faith as you pray and support us here. Together we are walking in God’s provision.