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our first informational meeting will be Sunday, January 29 @ noon. reserve a spot below.   About two years ago, I had a very strong sense that our leadership here at the Vineyard needed to be praying about what the Father was calling our church to in the area of missions & church planting. I had just [...]

This morning it hit me…6 months from today, Liz, Méabh & I step on a plane (Méabh will actually be carried on most likely), and get off the plane  the next day in Dublin. The girls will have another month in the states to go to camp, see friends/family, etc, before heading over to join us. [...]

One of the things we’ve been asked more than once since we began telling people we’re moving to Ireland is, “how are you going to support yourselves?” As you might have guessed, it was one of the first conversations Liz & I had with each other as we began thinking and praying about this move. [...]

When we first started the Ithaca Vineyard, I went to a number of church planter training and heard over and over again about how many people you would need to talk to if you were going to plant a church. My conversation with God, went something like this…”If you really want me to plant a [...]

This morning Liz & I were going to have a weekly planning meeting at 10 am. We got started a bit late, and when I got into my calendar @ 10:11 am, the first thing I noticed was that I had an orthodontist’s appointment at 10 am. (And I live 20 minutes away). It is [...]

Earlier this week I wrote a brief update on the Ithaca Vineyard’s search for a new lead pastor, and another on how things were progressing with our move to Ireland. I thought I’d end the week with an update of the various other things we’ve got going on…or at least as much as I can remember. [...]

Yesterday I gave an update on the current pastoral search at the Ithaca Vineyard. Today I thought I’d write about how everything with Project:Move to Dublin is going. This part of our lives fells pretty big at this point has several aspects to it, so I figured the easiest thing to do was address each [...]

No, I’m not talking about that move…although that one is getting closer. I think this blog is becoming a bit too confusing…part of the time I’m talking about Ithaca, part of the time I’m talking about Ireland. (& then part of the time, who knows what I’m talking about) So within the next 2-3 weeks, [...]

Often I write a data dump on Fridays, but the last couple weeks have left me a bit short of time when Friday rolls around. However, there are still a bunch of things rolling around in my head, so I thought it’d be best to get some of them out.

Over the past few months we’ve learned quite a bit about how education works in Ireland. One of the things we found most interesting, was that you were not limited to schools in your geographical area. That means there is actually competition among the schools. And in the area where it looks like we’ll be landing, there are a number of great schools.