Autumn falls

Hello everyone.  I hope that you are all well.  We are doing great and have really been enjoying living in Ballina. It's been over three and a half months already.  I guess that we have well and truly had our last days of summer for this year and have entered into autumn.  It is really cold and really wet but we are thankful for His blessings everyday.  The sun rises a bit later and we have been able to witness it most mornings.  It is a lovely time of the year.

A lot has happened in our lives in the past month or so.  Church started about 5 weeks ago and it has been lovely getting to know each other and spend time with one another.  Church is long on a Sunday.  We don't get started until about 2 but it goes on until around 7pm.   We meet for a meal, have a chat or play some sports and then we have our time of worship and word.  We have enjoyed being a part of something that is at the beginning of it's life.  Simon has been helping out with the worship and Sarai has been helping out with teaching the kids.  We have had between 5 and 12 people attend (not including kids) and we meet in a house.  You can be praying that the Lord provides a new house as the house that we meet in will no longer be available soon.  The guys who lived there have been told to move as the house was reprocessed by the bank.  Pray that the Lord provides a new home for Brendan, Carinne and the 4 kids.

Simon had a couple of job interviews this month and was offered a part-time job in Ballina.  This is a massive answer to prayer because we have had little or no income in the past few months.  Thanks to all who prayed and who gave and be encouraged by this answered prayer.  We continue to probe other ideas that will bring in enough income for us to live and be established here but we are very encouraged as we see His hand at work.  Simon started on Tuesday.

We have had a lot of visitors too.  All of Simon's family were able to visit as well as a couple of good friends from our home church in Northern Ireland.  We are expecting another couple from the North at the end of October as well as our good friends Phillip and Alisha Brummett from Texas.  They will be visiting us as they pray and seek the Lord's will for the next stage in their ministry.  They are praying about the possibility of moving to Ireland.  Please pray for guidance and wisdom in their decision making.  It is great to have people stay with us and experience life in Ballina.  It really is much different to Panama or even to Northern Ireland.

Ethan is loving school!  He comes home and doesn't tell us anything about his day but he is just loving getting to know other kids his age.  It is a blessing to see him enjoying it and growing through it.  Naomi is walking, a lot!  She never stops.  She had her first birthday at the beginning of October and her grandparents could come to it as well as some friends from the area.

We hope to get travelling North this month but a lot depends on Simon's work schedule.  Simon will be at Lisburn Christian Fellowship this Saturday for the Father Heart conference but he will only be there for the day.

Thanks again for all of the prayers as well the financial gifts.  It is wonderful to know that we have friends and family all over the world who pray for us on a daily basis.

Blessings!

Simon, Sarai, Ethan and Naomi Morrow