This Blog follows the Adventures of Bear Mills. David "Bear" Mills is a Young Adult Volunteer serving in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a year working in peacemaking.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
An Experience Worth Having
This year has affected and continues to affect my life in so many ways, and I am excited to have the opportunity to share my story when I go home. I can’t wait to share how profoundly I have been changed through serving God and God’s people in an environment that is not only foreign to me but is in many ways a mirror reflection of many of the troubles we face back home. The characters and storyline are different, but the theme is unfortunately universal. At the same time there is a unique beauty to this land and these people and I look forward to sharing their stories with others.
I would love to see more young people joining the Young Adult Volunteer Program and programs like it, because I believe that the best way to discover who you are and who God intends for you to be is to serve others. Service can be exciting, it can be boring, it can be uncomfortable, it can be risky, it can be humbling, and it can even be demeaning at times; but it’s when we are living outside of ourselves that we discover who we really are. Jesus’ whole life was a declaration of truth and service, and he gave us so many examples of what it means to serve. I want to encourage and excite others to join the YAV program because it is a living example of Jesus’ call to serve.
Kissin’ the Blarney Stone with the bestie @pdcentre for her birthday weekend. #yearofawesome
What A Drunk Girl Deserves
Interesting read of how humanity can get confused. We’ve all been the victim, the perpetrator, and the bystander in our lives. Let’s make sure to focus on who’s who and wait for all the information to surface before making decisions.
Stories from Cave Hill
What if instead of simply updating our old school vocabulary to make God more accessible to contemporary audiences we sought to constantly reevaluate the theological system in which that vocabulary is framed so that when we call God a dirty God we are referencing a God who pursues those on the fringes of society, who seeks out the marginalized and the alienated and commands his followers to love the strangers among them?
Our fearless leader. I heart him.
Newborn Lamb in Donegal, Republic of Ireland
Slieve League in Donegal, Republic of Ireland
