Notices: 7th April 2013

Today:
11.00 am Holy Communion
4.00 pm Youth Leader Training - Colebrooke Hall including Safeguarding Trust training at 6pm.

Next Sunday: Sunday 14th April
10.00 am Sunday School
11.00 am Morning Prayer & Parish Lunch & Easter Vestry

This Week:
Tuesday 9th
8.00 pm Mothers’ Union - speaker: Ruth Wilson on ‘The Gambia Visit.’

Easter Vestry
This year’s Easter Vestry will be held on Sunday 14th April when we meet together as a church family to praise God, share food, celebrate the past and look to the future. Following our morning service, we will enjoy a light lunch before beginning the meeting. Everyone is most welcome to attend (although only those on the Register of Vestrymen may vote). For purposes of catering, please add your name to the list in the porch today.

Vestry News
Following much discussion, the Select Vestry have decided to begin work on the interior of the church porch - removing plaster and rewiring. The work will (DV) begin on Monday 29th April. While works continue, our Sunday services will be held in the Church Hall.

MU Outing
This year’s MU Outing is planned for Saturday 18th May: Ballydougan Pottery (Lurgan), Lisburn, with evening meal in Christ Church, Lisburn. To book, please contact Helen Rutledge (028 8952 1673).

Diocesan Magazine
Notes for May’s issue with the Rector by tomorrow morning, please.

Men’s Event Coming Up:
Ulster Rugby players in Fivemiletown College on Monday 15th April at 7.30 pm. Doors open at 6.45 pm - be there early!

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AccessNI Check process

Hi folks Please see the following pages for the process of getting our AccessNI accreditation for our Sunday School and GFS leaders and helpers. You will need to print out the pages and keep a special note of the long number provided to you by email and let me know as soon as possible. We require an Enhanced check for everyone - and use the PIN number 918066 as detailed on the first page. The second page details the forms of identification you will need to provide - one from the first group, and two from the second group. The quicker we can all get the checks completed, the sooner we can get everything back to normal and put this whole process behind us for another three years! If you can photograph yourself (by smartphone or tablet) and email (revdjohnny@gmail.com) or WhatsApp (07488371680) them to me, that'd be great. I will also be available at the Parish Hall on Monday evening from 7pm to 8pm to help you with anything you would like assistance with! If you need any help at all

Pray for Peace

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9 The Holy Land, the place sanctified by the presence of prophets, poets, and priests, crying out for justice, urging on towards hope, and seeking after peace, has been, and continues to be a place sacred to millions of people around the world. We have watched with horror the appalling violence that has been unleashed over the last few days around this sacred place. We have seen families devastated, communities shattered, and countless lives lost. We, as followers of Jesus are called in this time to pray. Pray for the end of hostilities, pray for the protection of the most vulnerable on both sides in Israel and Gaza, and pray for a recommitment to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. We also pray that God might grant comfort to the afflicted, healing to the broken, strength to the weak, and courage to those in authority to lay down the instruments of violence and destruction and stud

Back to the BCP!!

Hi folks It’s been a long time since the pandemic started and the lockdowns - and Covid hasn’t really gone away! I had the dubious honour of getting Covid for the second time just before Holy Week, giving me the chance to think about ministry direction, both my own and in the parish. One of the original responses to the pandemic was to limit our use of the hymn books and our Prayer Books. At the beginning I produced a service sheet with all the relevant liturgy - which we used in the car park and when we returned to the church. Our “temporary measure” lasted almost three years - and it’s time to move on! Our Book of Common Prayer contains our unique identity - in fact the word “Common” doesn’t mean ordinary but that it shows our unity - the liturgy we hold in “common”. We will be returning to our BCPs from this weekend, the Second Sunday of Easter. We will be using Morning Prayer Two - and we will guide us through the service. We look forward to seeing you in church or online via Fb

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