Beginning.

I have always enjoyed seeing new places and finding beauty in the world around us. The Lord has provided opportunity for me to expand my circle of travel this year, turning me into what I've begun to call a "sometimes vagabond." I have a home base and I've held various jobs, but have always found myself on the move in one form or another. Wanderlust some would call it. 

At this time, I find myself in Ireland. 

Why Ireland? 

Why not. 

But for those of you needing more of an explanation, here is how I found my way to Drewstown House in County Meath...

This past summer I was not involved in camping ministry at all for the first time in... my life. Literally. However, I can give that history some other time. I did have the opportunity to take a two week trip with a couple of friends and travel to Germany, Scotland, England and Denmark. Ireland has always been on my list of places to see, but we had too much on our agenda to squeeze it in. But I loved our trip. I loved Europe. Now hold on to that thought...

When my family worked at Victory Bible Camp, we had the privilege of working alongside and getting to know the Scherrer family, Matt and Carole and their 6 children. Matt had grown up in Ireland at an orphanage turned boarding school turned camp/retreat center called Drewstown House. Their family came over to Ireland a couple years ago to visit and tour a bit. This Fall they had made plans to come specifically to serve at Drewstown House for a three month period, bringing with them a work team from Glacier View Bible Church for a couple weeks at the beginning of their time.

So as the summer was coming to an end, I began to feel a push to move on from my job at the credit union. After no camp this summer, I was missing that kind of ministry service -after all, it's what I grew up with and went to college for. So when I heard about the team coming over to Ireland I inquired as to whether or not I could be of help, and whether or not I could stay for 2 months. 

To make a long story short, I quit my job and here I am, listening to the predictable Irish rain on the roof, enjoying a fire in the stove and wearing homemade wool socks (made by my uncle, mind you, pretty fantastic family I've got). 

I am blessed. 

I shall try my best to keep you all updated and let you know what kind of things we're up to over here. I'll leave you with a map of where we're located. If you'd like to see a larger map of Ireland, I'm sure Google can help you out. Here's a smaller map of Meath just to bring things down to a smaller scale. We're about an hour from the Dublin airport; our nearest town is Athboy, just south of Kells as you see on the map: