Blog Links
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- Personnel Blogs - Sites run by our own people serving overseas.
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PRAYER FOCUS: 28 July 4 August 2010
28/7/2010 11:25 Information in relation to mission and outreach in Ireland for Prayer Focus can be emailed to prayerfocus@presbyterianireland.org WEB ADDRESS: www.missionireland.org THE MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Pray for the Moderator as he goes about his daily duties. BOARD OF MISSION IN IRELAND...
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Connection is everything
27/7/2010 14:14 “The Visitor” (2008) is a film about a professor who arrives at his apartment in New York, only to find Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay...
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Outreach in South Belfast
27/7/2010 11:49 Keith Preston the Irish Mission worker in South and East Belfast has started a Drop-In in the Halls of Ulsterville Presbyterian Church and also holds English Classes on a Wednesday Night. On the last Monday of each month a group of Christians meet with Keith to pray for this outreach. The July...
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The Prime Ministers Pledge
26/7/2010 15:12 When David Cameron visited Northern Ireland during the election campaign, he addressed the issue of the beleagured Presbyterian Mutual Society, and the distress that has been experienced by so many savers. In clear and unambiguous language, he made a pledge to the PMS savers: “This is all...
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workshops and laughter
25/7/2010 06:12 Hello all Its Sunday morning and while my friends are at Church, I am sitting home writing this because I can't speak at all - I have completely lost my voice and have a very sore throat and chest! Some might say that is a good thing, but it is very frustrating when I have a PCI team here...
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job complete....
21/7/2010 18:54 Hello everyone Just an update on the last day before the Ballycarry team left. In the morning we went to Chinteche to an orphan care centre to see amazing work going on with widows knitting goods for sale, and orphans learning a trade like sewing or carpentry so that they will be able to earn a...
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PMS update
21/7/2010 18:44 It’s over six weeks since we met the Secretary of State about the PMS crisis, and this is the report of the first meeting of the Ministerial Working Group which was promised and which took place today. Here is the press release from the Northern Ireland Office: Secretary of State for...
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Why a Confession of Faith
21/7/2010 11:14 The question often raised in churches that hold a confession of faith as a subordinate standard is Why? Why do we need a confession of faith? Are confessions of faith not simply engines of division? In a recently re-published book, The Erosion of Calvinist Orthodoxy, Ian Hamilton, minister of...
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Biblefresh Translation Launch
20/7/2010 14:38 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the popular King James Version of the Bible. This year gives us a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in a country where the Bible is widely available in our own language. Unfortunately, this is not representative of the...
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Navan Fort
19/7/2010 11:49 My young American friend, Justin, was passing through for a couple of days and we decided to visit Navan Fort as an interesting historic site not too far away from where we live. Navan Fort is a large circular earthwork on the summit of a drumlin just outside Armagh. It is thought to be the site...
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Drawing Storyboards
16/7/2010 13:56 Translation is not always a matter of writing down words. Kenyan Deaf artists with DOOR (Deaf Opportunity OutReach) are involved in drawing storyboards for signed scriptures in DVD format for the Deaf. These DVDs tell the Bible story frame by frame, each frame with an illustrated...
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New Ordination Standards for PC(USA)
13/7/2010 08:28 It’s interesting to note the spin which some members of the mainline Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) are putting on the recent decision of their General Assembly to lift the ban on the ordination of practising homosexuals. They claim that it may actually raise the standards. Many...
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playgrounds and celebrations
12/7/2010 13:32 Hello everyone Hope you have had a good week. Here, the team from Ballycarry have been extremely busy as you will see from the photographs. This was the children who arrived for the Bible club!! Just a few......... Owen, the driver having a rest after the many hours of driving........ Work begins...
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Whats wrong with Women Bishops
10/7/2010 12:20 The controversial issue of the ordination of women, and especially the appointment of women bishops, continues to be a discussion point within the Anglican communion. A recent blog by Richard Perkins, the minister of a new Anglican church in south-west London is an excellent summary of the...
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Transformed hearts, transformed lives
9/7/2010 12:17 Dave Pearson, Language Development Advocate, helps UN agencies and NGOs to better integrate language issues into their development work. His article, which was first published in the May 2010 Issue of Wycliffe Bible Translators’ UK magazine Words for Life, powerfully illustrates the impact of...
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Civil Partnership Bill in ROI
8/7/2010 11:37 When I was in Dublin a few months ago, I met Senator Ronan Mullen, the Independent NUI senator in the Seanad. He is a man of strong Christian convictions, and I discovered that we shared a number of concerns about issues of morality that are being debated currently. Christians in the Republic of...
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Prayer Focus 7-31 July 2010
7/7/2010 10:19 Download Prayerfocus 7-31July 2010.pdf (86.3K) PRAYER FOCUS: 7 - 14 July 2010 HOME & IRISH MISSION Cavanaleck & Aughentaine Presbyterian Churches Revd Colin Dickson Pray for: Tuesday 13 Friday 16 July we are holding a Soccer Camp in Fivemiletown. Please pray for the organising of the event, the...
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Seamus the Great
7/7/2010 10:04 Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, has opened the new McClay Library at Queen’s University. It was a great evening for the university as it celebrated this wonderful new addition to its facilities. Named after Sir Alan McClay, the library provides fantastic resources for the students at...
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Jan Hus, d. 6 July 1415
6/7/2010 07:00 Today we recognise the anniversary of the death of Jan Hus, a Czech theologian and priest who actively promoted John Wycliffe’s ideas, including the view that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and not be threatened with execution for owning a Bible in any...
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