Change

Change is as integral to life as breathing the air around us – life doesn’t stand still for any of us. An unhappy outcome of the fall means that aging and death separates us from our loved ones. But change also brings new life, allows for the forging of new relationships and brings us nearer to heaven and re-union with our creator God. Change is sometimes an easy and happy turn of event and at other times a hard thing to deal with.

Moving is never easy and especially when it means moving location, moving culture and leaving behind loved ones. It has been a painful process to leave behind our church family in England and move to the Republic of Ireland. God teaches us to rely solely on Him – He is the great constant in this changing and decaying world. Our relationship with Him changes as we choose to serve Him more or less, to become more Christ-like or not. We need to learn to graciously accept change and learn to trust God more through it.

An Introduction

The contributors of this blog are good friends, both in church-planting situations, but separated by the Irish Sea. As we live in different countries so we are also at different stages in life. One is a wife and mother; the other is a daughter and sister; but we both seek to press on towards the goal set before us in Christ Jesus.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11)