What's next?

We're on tour with the band for the summer. Read about it on "A Cold Pint of Canadian Adventure" (working title) at pleisenhauertour.blogspot.com!

Cheers.

Appeal

Have you ever observed the phenomenon that occurs when one owns a digital camera for some years? Namely, this is that one goes back after a while, and—hopefully—gets to go through thousands upon thousands of pictures from recent… months, and one finds that, in a thousand pictures, one has maybe a hundred good ones, and none of them have their friends in them! I just got around to organizing our 8-month archive of digital photographs from Ireland, and this was true for me. So, I just want to say that, if you happen to be from Ireland, and you know us, and if you took any pictures of, say, anything that might have vaguely involved us, or that we might appreciate to look at, such as yourselves, then we would be most obliged and ecstatic and all that if you would maybe put some of those pictures on a CD and just pop them in the mail for us! We would be so thankful. Cheerio.

Memo

To all our readers, including the lurkers, the active contributors, our family, our friends, those who still occasionally check our blog with the smallest hope of an update, and those who have fallen away.

Thank you, our supporters and friends, for the most incredible eight months of our lives to date. We left Ireland--Swords, the church, Tim, Eric & Donna, and all the youth that we have come to love--with much sorrow, much hope, and much anticipation for what is to come this summer and beyond. We felt like there was so much more to be done, like we were just getting started, like we were finally getting to know people, and like God was finally using us in others' lives; but at the same time, we felt so privileged to have simply known the Irish, to have spoken into their lives and to have them speak into our lives, to see the way the Spirit moves around the world, and to experience that the God of Ireland is the God of our own church and our lives as well--the fellowship that we shared with these folks was the best part of our eight months in Ireland. Please, if you talk with the Lord regularly, do remember the youth in Swords--whose names are many--the youth pastor, Tim, and those who sacrifice their time every week for this work: Eric & Donna, Nev & Hazel, Liz, Alice, and perhaps others by now. Pray that they will continue to grow in their knowledge of God and their commitment to Him, and that, through them, His name will be known in Ireland.

In other matters, our four-week vacation in France, Spain and Italy was a much-needed getaway, a blessing from God, and not at all funded by missions money. Don't ask for pictures though! We have little more than our memories, and several hours of video footage (thank you Eric & Donna, again!).

During the month of April, we visited our beloved niece & nephew (and their parents too) in Beaverton, ON, as well as the family in Manitoba. Good times and many laughs were shared, Canasta and provocative word games were played, lost pounds were regained, overweight bags were packed and re-packed, and disaster in Heathrow was averted! We are now in Gold River with Ashleigh's parents for two weeks. I am relishing the fresh, rainy, mountain air and the overwhelming green-ness.

Speaking of Ness, three months of our summer (constituting nearly the whole) will be spent in a camper van on the roads of Canada with my wife and my bandmates, Jeremy Eisenhauer, Sheree Eisenhauer (Plett), Jordan Ness, and Jeremy Penner. We are coming to a church or coffee shop near you! Visit Wallow Records for dates, links, and further details. Our first show is at the History Maker Festival in Chilliwack, BC, on May 19th at 12:00 PM. If you're in the area, come and say hi! We may or may not be setting up a tour blog; if so, we will of course link to it from this page in the next two weeks.

Cheerio for now! God bless!

Jordan Dueck