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ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

So yesterday we met with Tommy Nelson, the Northern Ireland representative for World Gospel Mission. He was almost immediately trying to get us to go teach music at their Bible college in Kenya. These Mission Agency guys are really salesmen, whether they mean to be or not. I think they're just that excited about what they do.

After that we went to a big Thanksgiving shindig at the Oasis, which is an old pub that John Moxen (of Project Evangelism and Murlough House) was given and recently renovated into a coffee shop youth outreach. It was fun and we got to see Erin and eat pumpkin pie (well, actually butternut squash pie, but it was close enough).

After that we played music for their youth outreach and it was pretty rough. I think the kids were bored out of their minds to be honest and I tried to talk too much which didn't help. It's kind of humbling to know that we're not "cool" anymore (or maybe ever...). I guess the way you learn is by being bad at something for a while though. We're not giving up.

So that's us. Cheers.
Mark

Embarassing moment of the day: Last night they made all the Americans stand up and sing this song about Ireland to the tune of "America the Beautiful". It was awful. The song lumped Northern Ireland and the Republic together (which can be very offensive in the north), but after the last verse some of the Americans decided to sing the first verse of the real American song. If no one in the room was offended it was a miracle. Hopefully there were no Orangemen in the crowd. It was desperate.