The Spring 2016 issue of Connor Connections is out and is available free of charge to all parishioners. This issue, featuring on the cover prayers written by children at Messy Church in Ballymena in October (which drew a crowd of…
The inaugural Clive West Memorial Lecture takes place in All Saints’ Church, Belfast, on Monday February 22 at 7.45pm. Speaker is the Rev Dr Ashley Null whose topic is ’The Faith at the heart of the Book of Common Prayer.’…
Members of the Knotty Knitters, a newly formed knitting club at St Colmanell’s parish, Ahoghill, have been busy knitting hats and scarves for the Mission to Seafarers and Twiddle Mitts for patients with dementia. The mitts provide something patients can…
First Minister Arlene Foster visited the Shankill area on February 4, and one of the venues she called into was St Andrew’s, Glencairn. Pupils from Harmony Primary School welcomed Mrs Foster and presented her with flowers. Community groups from Glencairn,…
The Bishop of Connor’s annual Lent Seminar series got underway in Jordanstown Parish Centre on Tuesday February 9, with more than 110 people coming along to hear the Bishop speak on the theme of Grace. The Rt Rev Alan Abernethy…
Churches in Lisburn launched ‘RELENTLESS PRAYER’ at Trinity Methodist Church on Tuesday evening February 9. From Wednesday February 10 until Easter Sunday (March 27) churches across the denominations will join together in 40 days and 40 nights of constant prayer…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev and Rt Hon Justin Welby, delivered the annual Church of Ireland Theological Lecture at Queen’s University, Belfast, on Monday February 8. Speaking to students, university staff, clergy and members of the public, Archbishop…
We are currently advertising vacancies for incumbents for two Connor parishes. The Parish of Skerry, Rathcavan and Newtowncrommelin is a rural parish of 200 families within one church, in the expanding village of Broughshane, on the outskirts of Ballymena. The Parish…
A group of 64 adults and children from Derryvolgie Parish went out for a meal to Newforge, south Belfast, on Saturday January 30. The rector, the Rev Stephen McElhinney, said: “The aim was to have a relaxing evening in each…
Last summer, the Rev Mike McCann, rector of Kilroot and Templecorran Parish, spent a three month sabbatical in the Canadian Arctic. His wife Sarah was with him for the first two months. They were based in Iqaluit, the main city…
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