Black Santa hands over £170,000 to charities
Money collected during the annual Black Santa Christmas Sit-Out for charities was handed out at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday afternoon, February 9.
Money collected during the annual Black Santa Christmas Sit-Out for charities was handed out at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Sunday afternoon, February 9.
Scout leader Billy Sholdis, 81, a parishioner of St Matthew’s, Belfast, was at Buckingham Palace on January 29 to receive the MBE he was awarded in Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Congratulations to Eglantine Mothers’ Union, who celebrated the 75th anniversary of the branch on Thursday January 17.
At the age of just 29, Simon Neill, Director of Music at St Polycarp’s, Finaghy, Diocese of Connor, has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in Her Majesty the Queen’s New Year’s Honour’s list.
The Diocese of Connor said thank you to its much-loved bishop, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, at a special Service of Thanksgiving to mark his retirement.
St Columba’s Parish, Derryvolgie, set about raising funds for a potentially life-saving defibrillator for the church, and ending up being able to purchase not one, but three defibrillators!
Lollipop man Ivan Gibson is clearly someone who loves his work. Ivan has been helping children, parents and grandparents to cross the road outside Carnmoney Primary School for 16 years.
The annual Black Santa sit-out by the Dean of Belfast gets underway on December 16.
There was plenty of fun, laughter and learning in St Patrick’s, Ballymena, over the course of Connor’s Big Weekend on November 16 and 17.
St Paul’s Parish Church, Lisburn, hosted the Royal British Legion Lisburn Branch Annual Remembrance Day Service on Sunday November 10. Photographs by Norman Briggs.
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