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CHURCH WEEKEND 2020 // 25-27 September 2020 // Keynote speaker: Phil Hair // the ceilidh is booked!  FIRST ANTRIM COMMUNITY FAIR We are planning to relaunch the Community Fair on Saturday 29 August this year.
We plan to give it a bit of a re-jig depending on past experience. For any event to run, we need a good bank of volunteers, so if you’d like to help out, we’d love to have you on board. If you’ve helped previously, please don’t feel under any obligation but we THANK YOU for your support. At this moment we are simply trying to get together a group of people who would be willing to attend a few planning meetings in the run up to the event and help out on the day. This gives us a chance to invite others on to the premises in a relaxed setting, raise some money towards the Building Fund and could be an opportunity to showcase our organisations. If you would like to be part of the fun, please speak to Lesley Kirkpatrick or Rowena Finlay. CHURCH LIBRARY Many thanks to those who are doing book reviews on some of the new books for the library. There are still more books available to review so have a think about joining in. Reorganising and cataloguing is progressing, there is also some weeding out going on to keep the stock fresh. The books not required any longer are going to Book Aid in Templepatrick and will eventually be sent all across Africa where they are gratefully received. If you have any Christian books or Bibles no longer needed feel free to leave them on the desk in the library or in the vestibules, any not taken into our library will then be destined for Africa. 
CHRISTIAN AID …. is helping to bring clean water to those who do not have it. Faith along with her husband Steven lives in Kenya, where ongoing drought means that nothing grows. Her fields were dirt and dust. Without crops they did not have enough to eat or sell and sending their children to school was an impossibility. Then Christian Aid came along and with Faith’s local community they got together to build a sand dam with your support. While the rain still remains irregular, a dam means that when the rains come the community can collect every last drop. Because there is now water in Faith’s community, there is life.
Faith said “The sand dam has made me and my family happy, because when it was not there, I was not able to plant anything. Now we can plant vegetables and water our trees.” This is just one example, where donations are spent.  Tuesday 28 April | 10am-3.30pm | Assembly Buildings, Belfast
Building genuine community in the church Day conference for ministers, elders and other key congregational leaders Cost: £15 Wednesday 29 April | 7.45-9.30pm | Assembly Buildings, Belfast Building genuine community in the church Evening event for church members, midweek and small groups Cost: FREE Thursday 30 April | 10am-1pm | Assembly Buildings, Belfast MORNING EQUIPPING EVENT: FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP Leading in the one another-ness of church life: Confident in God as we lead in community A morning of equipping for ministers, elders and other key congregational leaders Cost: £5 Thursday 30 April | 7.45-9.30pm | Union Road P C, Magherafelt (Regional event repeat of Assembly Buildings evening held on 29 April) Building genuine community in the church Evening meeting for church members, midweek and small groups Cost: FREE Friday 1 May | 10am-1pm | Assembly Buildings, Belfast MORNING EQUIPPING EVENT: FOCUSING ON PASTORAL LIFE AND COUNSELLING MINISTRY When shame gets in the way of being one anothers: Ministering in an honour shame culture A morning of equipping for ministers, elders, other key congregational leaders and those involved in Christian counselling Cost: £5 https://www.presbyterianireland.org/Events/One-Anothers.aspx CONFERENCE on the role and impact of social media on the lives of children and young people will be run on Tuesday 28 April in Trinity Methodist Church. This is run by the Safeguarding Board for NI and further details are available on the flyer in the vestibules.
CYCLISTS CAP are looking for cyclists (of any ability) to join them on their tandem bike fundraising ride which will be visiting all 20 CAP Debt Centres in Northern Ireland.
Antrim Debt Centre, which this church supports, are riding on Friday 24 April from Ballyclare to Ballymena via Antrim. If you would like to join us, please contact Irene on email irenekilpatrick@capuk.org SAVE THE DATE! In order to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Templepatrick
Presbytery Choir Festival, members of our choir will be joining with others in a concert at 7:45pm on Thursday 23 April in Parkhall Integrated College. Everyone is welcome, so why not come along and enjoy an evening of sacred music? Tickets cost £10 and are available from Naomi Thompson and the Church Office, or pay at the door. |
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