It is hard to believe it is already the end of September. Recently Root Soup has been quite busy catering and hosting events. The crew hosted a fundraising cinema night at a 1950’s Tudor style cinema in Comber. The movie was great. The food was great. The turnout was great. We watched Radio and had old fashioned candies and popcorn! Doesn’t get much better than that!
Then, last Sunday, Root Soup catered for over 90 people at an after church lunch. A few people said they were expecting ‘just some vegetable soup’ but were pleasantly surprised by the 3 choices (spicy parsnip, potato and ham, and French onion). The guys from Open Door did a great job greeting people, serving soup and clearing up! It was another successful day even though the cooker blew its fuse and was off for about 30 minutes before we realized!
In addition to Root Soup, we have been busy helping to plan the 10th anniversary for L’Arche Belfast which is on Saturday. Lucy has been in charge of invitations, RSVPs and coordinating the food. Micah (and Root Soup) will make the soup for about 250 people as well as a light dinner for about 40. It will be fun to be a part of a milestone in the history of L’Arche Belfast!
The weather here has begun to be a bit unpredictable, but one day the sun was shining and it was just lovely, so we decided to bike on the Comber Greenway. It is a 7 mile path that we can pick up near to our house. We have been desiring to bike out to Comber for a while and we absolutely loved it (even though we rode into the wind on the way home!). It is always nice to get away from the loud traffic of the Ormeau Road!
One funny story from the Ember (where the core members live): Lucy was helping Jillian to phone her dad one evening and we didn’t get a hold of him so she headed up for her bath, but on the way up she kept saying ‘Larry out drinking. Larry bad boy out drinking. …’ It was incredibly funny! She is such a great woman!
In the midst of the busyness of this time, we were able to get away for a weekend down to Wicklow with Joy, Bobby and their boys. Our friend, Sam (who just moved to Russia) and his family own land in the mountains. They have a beautiful piece of land and were gracious enough to let us use their ‘hut’. It was a brilliant weekend of laughter, reflection and great memories. It is hard to sum up in words how beautiful and peaceful it was! Maybe pictures will do a better job!
In the next week we are really looking forward to celebrating the 10th anniversary of L’Arche as well as have 2 friends visit (Trent and Erin who Micah lived in Seattle with). It will be wonderful to show them a bit of our life here! A prayer request for us is that we find more volunteers soon. We have had 6 for quite some time but because of different circumstances we will be down to 3 at the beginning of October. It will be a tricky month so we would appreciate any prayers!
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