Notices: Sunday 21st June 2015

Today:
11am Children’s Day Family Service - we welcome Rev Adrian Dorrian (St Mark’s, Dundela & CMSI Chair) as our speaker
12.15pm Parish Lunch
7pm Evening Prayer - Brooke Memorial Hall

Next Sunday: Sunday 28th June 2015
11am Morning Prayer - 1 Thess 4: 13-18 Walking Worthy in Hope

This Week:
Monday 22nd - Friday 26th
Hall tidy-up week - any help will be gratefully received
Saturday 27th 7pm The Crosslinks Meeting - St Saviour’s, Dollingstown

Coming Up:
Sat 4th July SNATCH outing to Summer Madness - see below for details
Fri 28th Aug BBQ & Dance - Tickets £12.50 available from end of July. Music by Alistair Scott Ceilidh Band

Crosslinks Summer Camps
Junior Camp: A Great Escape - Castlewellan Castle 8th-12th August, ages 8-11.
Senior Camp: Rock Solid - Castlewellan Castle 8th-15th August, ages 12-17.
Reset: Dunluce Parish Centre, Bushmills 21st-23rd August, ages 18-30.
See flyers in porch for more information, or visit www.crosslinks.org/camps

Summer Madness
SNATCH are heading to Summer Madness on Saturday 4th July!
Bus leaves Colebrooke Church Hall at 12pm, stopping en route for lunch, before arriving at Glenarm Castle for the evening, including dinner with the Clogher subcamp and the evening worship session. Return home at 12am approx. Cost £10 entrance to Summer Madness, plus pocket money for lunch, snacks and bookshop. Consent forms available from SNATCH leaders.

Irish Women’s Convention
Holding on to Hope with Nancy Guthrie
Saturday 17th October 2015 in Assembly Buildings, Belfast
We’ve secured a limited number of tickets, priced at £17 (plus transport, to be arranged) - speak to Lynsey to book your place.

Prayer Diary
Sun 21st CMS Ireland’s Little Lights project in DR Congo
Mon 22nd All who are ill at home or in hospital
Tue 23rd Faithfulness to God’s word in the Church of Ireland
Wed 24th The witness of Christians in the workplace
Thur 25th Open Doors, standing with persecuted Christians worldwide
Fri 26th Residents and staff in local nursing homes
Sat 27th Myrtle and the choir as they lead our praise tomorrow
Sun 28th Give thanks for the hope we have through the Lord Jesus

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Psalm 116: 1

Prayer Diary updates can be accessed each morning at our Facebook page or by downloading the free ‘PrayerMate’ app for your smartphone and adding the Aghavea Church feed.

Comments

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

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

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

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