Notices: Sunday 12th April 2015

Today:
11am Morning Prayer

Next Sunday: 19th April 2015
10am Sunday School & Confirmation Group
11am Church Family Service with Baptism, Lunch & Easter Vestry

This Week:
Tuesday 14th
Mothers’ Union - visit to Belle Isle Castle

Thursday 16th
7.30pm Evening Prayer in Enniskillen Cathedral - special preacher: Canon Andrew White, the Vicar of Baghdad

Friday 17th
7.30pm Commissioning service of Rev David Luckman as Crosslinks Ireland Team Leader - St Saviour’s Dollingstown

Easter General Vestry
The Easter Vestry will be held on Sunday 19th April at 12.30pm, following a light lunch after the Church Family Service. At the meeting we will hear reports on church life, appoint and elect Churchwardens and Glebewardens, and elect the new Select Vestry. All are welcome to the lunch and the meeting, but only Registered Vestry members can stand for election or vote.

Mothers’ Union News
Monday 13th April: Clogh MU Visitors’ Night - 8pm in Clogh War Memorial Hall.
Friday 1st May: Clogher Diocesan Festival Service, St Patrick’s Church Monaghan.
Sat 23rd May: MU Outing: Morning Coffee in The Tannery, Moira; shopping in Newtownards; Flower Festival and evening meal at St Mary’s Comber. To book your place, speak to Valerie Crawford or Helen Rutledge.

Prayer Diary
Sun 12th Kenny Rutledge, as he proclaims God’s word to us today
Mon 13th Pray for politicians, as the run up to the election continues
Tue 14th Mothers’ Union members worldwide, witnessing to their families
Wed 15th Pray for all who mourn - for God’s comfort in the hope of Easter
Thur 16th Christians in the Middle East, facing persecution and danger
Fri 17th David Luckman, the new Crosslinks Ireland Team Leader
Sat 18th Pray for a growing hunger for God’s word in our church family
Sun 19th Easter Vestry as it meets today, choosing the new Select Vestry
Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you. - John 20: 21

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

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

Where is forgiveness?

Hi folks I was thinking about the passages for next Sunday, and it brought me to considering the current press coverage regarding the This Morning presenters. This might be a little controversial - but please, hear me out. I have no great opinion on what's happening in the media regarding the "This Morning" saga. It seems mistakes have been made, and certainly people misled - but the frenzy and hounding of Phillip Schofield is both unnecessary and unwarranted. I'm very uncomfortable that some members the press and celebrities have made it their lives mission to destroy everything Mr Schofield has ever done! It cannot be easy to listen and read so much vitriol being used against him! There's certainly no Christian love being shown to him on the media these days. I remember the words of Jesus when he told us to love one another, and that whoever has not sinned should cast the first stone. I'm certainly not perfect in any way, and don't believe that anyon

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