The month of June has been full of events. Early in the month we had a wedding at Corrymeela. The wedding was of Kieran and Rhina who were previous long term volunteers. Rhina is from El Salvador and Kieran is from Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The wedding was a lot of fun and our Scottish short-term volunteer co-ordinator dressed up in his traditional garb for the occassion as can be seen in the photo above.
Niki left her mark at Corrymeela by leaving behind one of her paintings for display.
We had two memorable conferences. One of the conferences we took part in planning with 6 youth from Northern Ireland. We recruited, planned and delivered the conference and it was a success. The conference was on issues affecting young people in Northern Ireland and we had many marginalized youth attend the conference. The other conference we hosted with Niki's parents as well was a church and peace conference with participants from all over Europe and many of them Mennonites. It was the first time playing the Mennonite game with a group. During the conference we were privilaged to hear from Norman Kember who was one of the CPT delegation members captured in Iraq last year. We also chatted with his wife and heard her experience of that time.
Lastly we spent holiday time with both of our parents and my sister and Philip, but I will talk about this in another post. Needless to say June was an eventful month for us.
