The DSD small grants programme is now open, offering grants of between £200 and £1500 to organisations working with volunteers in Northern Ireland. Applicants must have a constitution and an income not exceeding £100,000. Applications close on Friday November 29….
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, has arrived home safe and well from Busan, Republic of Korea, where he was attending the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. The Bishop was one of 3,000 delegates….
It’s still not too late to book for one the annual Building Blocks Children’s Ministry Conferences taking place on Saturday 16th November in Wellington Presbyterian Church, Ballymena, and Saturday 23rd November in All Hallows College, Drumcomdra, Dublin. The conferences aim…
A group from Connor Diocese flew to Israel on November 12 for a 10–day pilgrimage in the Holy Land. They are led by the Dean of Belfast, the Very Rev John Mann, who has submitted this blog at the end…
For the past four years at Harvest time St Katharine’s Parish Church, Belfast, has been decorated with non–perishable food items which have gone to others in greater need. This year gifts of tinned and packet foods were donated to The…
Connor Mothers’ Union is holding a Christingle Service for children of all ages in All Saints’ Parish, Antrim, on Sunday December 8. The service, celebrating an age old Christian tradition, will get underway at 3.30pm and will be followed by…
Parishes around Connor Diocese marked Remembrance Sunday on November 10, paying tribute to the dead of two World Wars and subsequent conflicts. Below are highlights from some of the services. Please send any further reports and photographs of Remembrance Sunday…
Disaster relief efforts are in need of emergency funds after a typhoon with winds reaching 200 miles per hour hit parts of the Philippines causing flooding and extreme devastation. People are being evacuated from severely hit areas. Up to 10,000…
The annual Black Santa Appeal run by St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is sending £5,000 to aid agencies working with all those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The Appeal gratefully receives occasional donations throughout the year as well as…
Christ Church Parish Choir, Lisburn, with organist Richard Yarr, Director of Music (right), pictured after leading the singing at Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh on Sunday October 27. The choir, who have led Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral each October…
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