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D A Y 1 Birthday week started off with a game, a

D A Y 1

Birthday week started off with a game, a clue, and presents! Then we spent a lot of time commuting in the rain 😅 and did a bit of pottery.

More planned for the days ahead as we celebrate Ethan turning SIXTEEN!!

22.04.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #birthdaysareabigdeal #birthdayweek #ethancole #timeandproximity #somuchtobethankfulfor

P A I N T This child is not satisfied with simply

P A I N T

This child is not satisfied with simply sitting in the same room and binging a show together. Time and proximity looks like more - more conversation, more engagement, more substance.

And so, we paint. Today it was spice bags, a local legal wall, and a piece he did for me 💡🥰✨ (iykyk)

Thankful I'm on the list of people he asks to hang out with 💕 If you're fortunate enough to get time with him, you know he's a treasure!

11.04.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #timeandproximity #sayyes #ethancole #graffmom #andsowepaint #somuchtobethankfulfor

N U M B E R E D We got news today that Silas has

N U M B E R E D

We got news today that Silas has been accepted into the film and production course he interviewed for a few weeks ago! He'll get his official offer in the post soon, we'll be able to register, and Lord willing, he'll begin college in the fall 🥳🥺🎉🥰😭

Today was Sabbath for us - no schedule, take our time, no one works/schools, go outside, eat nice food, look at each other's faces, rest.
And I've realised that there are actually a certain number of those we have left with our very customisable, homeschooling schedule. Things are changing, and I'm both really excited for Silas and also not so ready for things to be different around here.

I can't slow down time, but I'm endeavoring to soak up the days. Take them in, do the things, say yes!

Anyone else in transition mode around here?

10.04.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #sabbath #timeandproximity #mylifewithboys #somuchtobethankfulfor

S T I R Youth leaders brunch - chatting, plannin

S T I R

Youth leaders brunch - chatting, planning, collaborating, and eating good food together!

"...stir one another up to love and good works" (Hebrews 10:25).

05.04.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #partnersinministry #treuimagemin #timeandproximity #somuchtobethankfulfor

M O M This is an old picture, but I like it. It's

M O M

This is an old picture, but I like it. It's a pretty accurate depiction of life with these boys 🥰

Boba and spice bags
Walks and bus rides
All the chats
Faith and wrestlings
Food and adventure
Victories and heartaches
Fashion choices and exploring art
Stories that have made us and dreams that lie ahead
Learning and growing and depending on the Lord

Happy Irish Mother's Day to all the moms! You are shaping this generation in the daily, mostly unseen, faithful work of Motherhood. What could be a higher calling? Well done 💕

30.03.2025

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C O F F E E When that Vietnamese coffee has you

C O F F E E

When that Vietnamese coffee has you dreaming of going back! ☕😌

Pretty proud of this guy. He's got his entrance interview for the college course he's hoping to get into tomorrow. Would love prayer for him if you think of it!

19.04.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #silasdaniel #newseasons #somuchtobethankfulfor

P A R T N E R Such an incredible time joining in

P A R T N E R

Such an incredible time joining in with @crownjesusministries this week! Primary school assemblies, visiting secondary school SU's, creative brainstorming and meetings about future collabs, connecting with old friends, making new ones, getting to be a part of @hopechapellane, and eating good food!

Crown Jesus is doing great things with the Lord and it's truly a joy to build relationships and partner together in this Kingdom work of bringing the Gospel to the whole island! The best is yet to come!

14.03.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #partneringinministry #treuimagemin #wherejesustakesus #somuchtobethankfulfor

J O Y It's been a pretty fun weekend up in Northe

J O Y

It's been a pretty fun weekend up in Northern Ireland with @imycd and their annual Soul Mates event! Such an incredible team, over 20 churches represented, and so many gorgeous kids! What a joy to be with them and to share about how to be connected to God and shine bold and bright for Him!

Thank you to High Street Methodist Church for hosting us and for all those who worked tirelessly to make the event happen. Ye were so kind and welcoming to us! May the Lord bless the work of your hands as you serve Him and these families He loves so dearly! Hope to see ye again soon x

09.03.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #wherejesustakesus #treuimagemin #kidsministry #connectandcollaborate #ohyeahmyhairisbluenow #missingethan #somuchtobethankfulfor

A N T I P O L O This is the street outside my Aun

A N T I P O L O

This is the street outside my Aunt and Uncle's house in Antipolo in the Philippines. It's where they host church on Sundays and countless gatherings every other day of the week.

Only cold water comes from the taps, even in the wet room bathrooms. You can't put toilet paper in the toilets and oscillating fans run constantly in every room.

Incredible food is marched from the kitchen inside to the larger, open air space, and we line up to fill our plates. Around the tables, there is laughing and chatting, connecting.

Deliveries come on motorcycles at the gate where you have to ring a bell with a stick. Outside, neighbours walk and bougainvillea blossoms. Down a little ways, tricycles and jeepneys fill the traffic with movement and noise.

I love this place. I already desperately miss the people inside. Only the Lord knows if I will see this house again. But I treasure all the days I've been there already.

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
- Psalm 90:12

04.03.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #timeandproximity #somuchtobethankfulfor

P A L A W A N My parents took us to Palawan, an a

P A L A W A N

My parents took us to Palawan, an area of the Philippines renowned for its limestone islands, many of which are so remote, they can only be visited by hiring a boat or tour.

It's hard to put into words what our time there meant. The scenery was beautiful, with what seemed like unrealistically teal/blue waters. The food was simple, traditional, and tasty. And we even had the surprise of seeing newly hatched baby turtles!

And the Lord did some really incredible things in our few days there. I think I'll hold them back from these spaces; they seem too precious to share this way. But I'm so so thankful, eternally so. What a generous God we serve!

Thank you Mom and Dad, for making Palawan happen. It was a gift!

02.03.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #palawan #timeandproximity #lookwhatthelordhasdone #life #somuchtobethankfulfor

P I L I P I N A S We're on our way back from the

P I L I P I N A S

We're on our way back from the Philippines now, headed home to Cork. It's always bittersweet leaving people and places that are ours to go to other people and places, also ours. To be honest, it's heartbreaking not knowing when I will see my family again. But I know that ultimately, we will be together, and there is comfort there.

We packed so much into the last two weeks! This is one of three posts 😅 A trip to the beach where most of us received a proper sunburn! Incredible, homemade food, two ministry opportunities, time with old and new friends, two children on antibiotics (again 🥴), and a lot of everyday things like taking the local, open-air transportation to the supermarket. So many memories to bring back with us!!

A huge THANK YOU! to my Mom and Aunt who worked so hard to make things happen. You are treasures 💕

01.03.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #timeandproximity #somuchtobethankfulfor

B D A Y Happy Birthday Babe! Here you are looking

B D A Y

Happy Birthday Babe! Here you are looking the most Asian you've ever been, wearing slippers while hanging out in a cat cafe in Bangkok!

Thank you for being up for adventure, for building memories with me, for all the ways you strive to love our family and grow - the best is yet to come, and I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store!!

26.02.2025

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K A S A M A It's been full on in the best way sin

K A S A M A

It's been full on in the best way since we landed in the Philippines! The first few days were spent with my eldest sister and her family and friends who are like her family. We haven't seen them for about 5 years, which is a really long time when you have kids who are all not kids now!

So thankful for time with them, somehow just living life and also packing it all in! Kasama means "together" in Tagalog, and it's something I'm so thankful for right now. #timeandproximity
is a gift

Thanks for all of your prayers, especially for health. Please keep them coming! We've had one boy and then the other still fighting sickness and needing antibiotics here 😔 Really ready for everyone to be well!

19.02.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #timeandproximity #inthephilippines #kasama #somuchtobethankfulfor

T I N Y We're about to go to the Philippines wher

T I N Y

We're about to go to the Philippines where we'll get to see family!!
But before we do, this tiny shop kitten we saw yesterday and its momma needed their own post. So sweet! 🥰🐱😍

13.02.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #randomthingsyouseeinvietnam #stopandsee #hoian #missingjuni #newkittenwhenwegetback #somuchtobethankfulfor

P E O P L E We walked today, and took pictures. A

P E O P L E

We walked today, and took pictures. And we got to meet a couple of people.

One woman runs a small shop making smoothies and coffee. Before and after opening and between orders, she works to care for her disabled father-in-law who's confined to a hospital bed in a room behind the shop counter. Her husband works in a restaurant whose profits fund a program that they started, helping disadvantages students.

Another man drives a taxi from 6am - 10pm. He lives with and cares for his 95 year old grandmother. His parents live 500 km away and work in fields, but he gets to visit them once a year. He shared how the only elderly who end up in nursing homes in Vietnam are ones with no children or grandchildren. Family is meant to care for their own.

What incredible, beautiful people we have encountered here. Praying for them, each made in the image of a God who knows and loves them dearly.

12.02.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #vietnam #imagodei #timeandproximity #alsopho #itwasadollar #somuchtobethankfulfor

P A U S E Vietnam feels like recovery Like pausin

P A U S E

Vietnam feels like recovery
Like pausing to look up and take a deep breath
It feels like receiving, savouring

Scooters and lanterns and so much banh mi!
Strong, sweet coffee and new connections
Creating, collaboration, and colour
The world is bigger than you know and also smaller than you think!

11.02.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #timeandproximity #vietnam #somuchtobethankfulfor

B K K We've made it to Vietnam (not without incid

B K K

We've made it to Vietnam (not without incident 🥴), but I just had to get one last post in for Bangkok.

Branden said about BKK, "Thailand has been both incredibly cruel and immensely kind. It kicked us in the stomach, showered us with kindness and nursed us back to health, then punched us in the throat!"

Yeah, kinda 😅 maybe the Lord will bring us back one day and we can have a few different experiences!

I absolutely had to share though, about some incredible people. Top of the list is our friend Irina. She and her family pastor @calvarychapelbangkok. We were staying with them and doing some ministry (first 4 pictures) when I got sick. Irina did everything to keep us together and alive! Like, didn't bend over backwards - she learned gymnastics! It's hard not to get emotional over how the Lord used her to minister to us, especially when our need was so great. Dave and Irina, we are indebted to you 💕

While I was in hospital, Branden and the boys got to spend a day with a couple from an organisation called @stepaheadthailand. One of the purposes of this trip was to have Silas do some film work for ministries who might need it. I wish I could have been there, but Jonathan and Elise took them into a slums community where Step Ahead works and Silas got to help create a film that will hopefully build awareness for their cause. The boys came back talking about how beautiful and generous the sense of community was and what they learned from the day.

In the midst of so much not going to plan, being hospitalised, and so many other challenges, I am grateful for so much! God truly is doing a work. What a privilege to be a part of it.

07.02.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #friendswhoarefamily #partnersinministry #somuchtobethankfulfor

R E C E I V E This was the view from my ICU room

R E C E I V E

This was the view from my ICU room in Bangkok. Ended up there for about 36 hours after getting sick (2nd time this trip) and my blood pressure bottoming out. Severe sinus infection, fever, stomach issues, dehydration, and zero energy.

In that room, I could do nothing for myself. Four IV lines and continuously hooked up to a BP and heart monitor - every adjustment, medicine dose, toilet break, even opening a bottle of water required the help of a nurse or doctor.

Towards the start of this trip, I was praying and felt like the Lord said, "Abide. Receive. I'm doing a work."

In that ICU room, I could do nothing but receive. The nurses literally washed my feet! It's humbling, embarrassing even, how dependent I was. But I saw a side of Thailand I probably would have missed. Kindness, dedication, humour, hearts that serve so generously and with so much respect and dignity and diligence. No hurried pace. Just quietly meeting the need at hand.

This is not how I thought this trip would go. I've been discharged now, praise God! But I am still recovering. And I'm slowing down, hands open, looking for the Lord in the spaces and people around us. He is with us 💕

05.02.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #rest #wherejesustakesus #recieve #thekindnessofthailand #bangkok #onedayatatime #somuchtobethankfulfor

N E W We got to be in Chinatown for Chinese New Y

N E W

We got to be in Chinatown for Chinese New Year! The streets were full of people dressed in red, with stalls and festivities and celebration!

We moved to probably the most Instagramable hostel in BKK! Literally, there were people constantly filming or coming to take pictures there!

Tried new foods and we've gotten to connect with new friends in the last couple of days - people serving the Lord and those He loves here in Thailand and beyond.

We walked into a worship session and it was kind of overwhelming - we are here, with the Church in SE Asia. How long we've anticipated this time.

Please pray as we get ready to do some ministry this weekend. Protection and help to be faithful, and that we'd be an encouragement.

31.01.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #treusinseasia2025 #cny2025 #amahostel #withthechurch #timeandproximity #somtam #wherejesustakesus #somuchtobethankfulfor

C I T Y Soccer in the park Bananas in the alleywa

C I T Y

Soccer in the park
Bananas in the alleyway
Legal walls
Skyline from the mall rooftop
Cat cafe
Waiting for the bus
The best selfie we've ever taken

28.01.2025

#seetheday2025 #numbereddays #treustories #bangkok #bkk #thailand #treusinseasia2025 #timeandproximity #Heknowsthemeachbyname #wherejesustakesus #somuchtobethankfulfor

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Branden, Ernie, Silas, and Ethan. We’re a family from Denver, Colorado, called to serve the Lord and the people He loves in Cork, Ireland. Our heart is sharing the Good News with kids, young people, and their families, showing them how God’s love changes everything!

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