We're Back!!

Greetings from back in Indiana.

We arrived back in Chicago on Friday afternoon and are in the midst of enjoying time with family and friends.

Our last couple weeks in Ireland were fantastic. We had a lot of goodbyes, some which were more difficult than others. We will certainly miss the people that we worked with and interacted among.

In the next week, we will be putting together a final letter to tell you more.

As far as our next move, we are planning to move to Chicago sometime in May, where I will be attending Trinity Seminary in the fall. We are excited to start yet another adventure!

Thank you all so much for keeping up with what we have been doing. We appreciate all of you so much.

Love,

Tyler and Erin

Beantown!

This past week, I had the privilege of going with our basketball team to Boston. The week really couldn't have gone much better. Our Freshman guys had been looking forward to it for many months and none of them returned disappointed. The guys played three games against small school opponents. We won one of those matches and the guys were able to interact with the opposing players after all of the matches.

We did a lot of fun activities as we saw the Basketball Hall of Fame, a Celtics game, and a minor league hockey game They also got a chance to meet a lot of faithful supporters of our ministry in the way of meals and activiities. The kids were blessed and so were the Sportslife supporters.

The trip brought me back to my days as a camp counselor as I was hosted in a house with five of the guys. We took over the basement. It was a great setup as we had foosball and air hockey going on constantly. For all but one of the guys, it was their first time in the USA, so it was fun to see their reactions to the many differences, such as large houses and yards, basements, shopping malls, and fast food. They loved the food, but by they end they were missing their fries with vinegar and curry sauce.

There were countless opportunities all week to interact with the guys and our relationships with them were deepened. They asked a lot of questions about God and Christianity and the hope is that several of these guys will start meeting with Dan for Bible study. There are definitely a few that are interested, which is great.

Erin survived the week apart well and was well taken care of by friends who were here visiting and who are apart of the Taylor group around the corner. This week we will both be working an Easter sports and arts camp with the kids up in Ballymun.

It's hard to believe there are only two week lefts for us here. It will be sad to leave, but exciting to get home in many ways as well.

Thanks again for all of your support and prayers.

Tyler and Erin