I’m not actually sure when the spring officially ends and summer begins, but judging by an increase in the occurrence of sunlight, I’m going to assume that summer is about to start (or has started). The time between the start of my second term in February and now has slipped by suddenly, possibly because of some busy-ness at university and with my university Amnesty group. My other activities have not been entirely interesting (unless you think things like backing up a database and writing an email about pesky technical issues is interesting). However, I was happy to spend a little bit of time in the past couple weeks with some friends staffing with YWAM in Rostrevor, continuing to pass on whatever team-leadership advice and help they can desire. I went and talked to the staff who are taking teams to South Africa and Israel & Palestine next month about budgeting, finances and all that exciting stuff, as well as advice about planning and executing an outreach in South Africa. It’s good to put Renee and I’s years of previous experience into some use. We want to continue to be available for that.

The picture: Just after Easter, I drove down to Rostrevor and hung out with Nathanael (pictured), who is one of the South Africa outreach team leaders as well as current staff on their DTS. He was on the team we took to South Africa last year. I snapped this photo with an awful camera as we took a couple of their kayaks out on Carlingford Lough (the An Cuan centre is in the background on the right).