​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 Water is vital to life. We in the West take it for granted. 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. Hunger was a reality. 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. The dam gives Faith’s community resilience in times of drought. 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. I hope that by the time my children grow up, I will have done a lot of things. I will do my best to educate my children and my children will be what they want to be, when they grow up.” This is just one example, where donations are spent.

​UNION THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE LIBRARY Did you know you can have an annual membership for £50? For this you get 8 book loans for 28 days, access to ATLA
databases and 620+ e-books. For more info go to
​www.union.ac.uk/discover/the-gamble-library or phone 028 9020 5093.

​COFFEE MORNING Saturday 7 March, 10am—12pm Rachel Gilbert is having a coffee morning to raise funds for her trip to Ethiopia in August with “Stand by me”.
All welcome.

​ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEAL will be on Saturday 7th March @ 6pm. Details and booking forms are available in the vestibules. Please note that you need to make your donation in advance this year by Sunday 23 February. Put your booking form and donation in an envelope on the offering plate. Thanks.

COMMUNION DATES FOR 2020 : Please note these dates in your diary or calendar The two communions at which we record attendance are May & November.
1 March, AM                                 28 June, PM                                            1 November, AM   
5 April, PM                                  13 September, AM                                6 December, PM
17 May, AM                                 4 October, PM