St George’s Sexton in countdown to Everest Marathon
Ken Tate, a sexton at St George’s Parish Church in Belfast, is on the final countdown to leaving for the Himalayas where he will take part in his second Everest Marathon on November 27.
Ken Tate, a sexton at St George’s Parish Church in Belfast, is on the final countdown to leaving for the Himalayas where he will take part in his second Everest Marathon on November 27.
Sligo 18 is an all-Ireland Christian conference held in the IT Sligo campus from July 8-13. The conference draws around 2,000 Christians from across Ireland to be taught, worship together and to enjoy fellowship.
St Anne’s Cathedral welcomed Lord Bourne, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government, for a visit on Wednesday October 25.
Two new Lay Readers have been commissioned in St George’s, Belfast. They are Mark Wardil from St George’s and Andrew McFaul from Muckamore.
Harvest was celebrated in Magheragall on Sunday October 15. In the country, many neighbours and old friends come to share in worship which makes for a very full church.
It is the time of the year when we give thanks for the Harvest and parishes around the diocese have been doing this in many different ways.
St Matthew’s Parish Church, Shankill, held a Family Fun Night on Wednesday October 11 to celebrate Harvest. Around 60 people came along.
A publicity launch for a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land to be conducted by Canon David Humphries next year took place in the Parish of Kilbride on October 21.
A beautiful new silver cross was dedicated in St John’s, Malone, on Sunday October 8 during the weekly Sung Eucharist in memory of the parish’s former organist, Dr Donald Davison.
The Autumn issue of the magazine Connor Connections is now available free to all parishioners at every church in the diocese.
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