PARENTS’ NIGHT

Margaret Robertson organised an opening game in which all children, parents  

and friends took part.  After this we opened with a song lead by Rebecca McCall, one of our helpers, a variation on the Children’s hymn, “Jesus Loves Me”. 

We had an opening prayer lead by Erin and a Bible reading brought to us by Philip Paul.  A number of members took part in our chain prayer time and then we had a quiz organised for us by two of our Juniors, Ellie Carmichael and Sheldon Beggs.

After this we had some supper and after this our leader Mr Philip McCall spoke to us on the subject of the Sea, Larne being a port, our thoughts were directed to the chorus “Do you want a pilot, signal then to Jesus”.

Then our Assistant Minister, Mr. Scott Woodburn gave out our prizes.  Scott has been a great friend to CE at Gardenmore and we will miss him greatly but wish him every blessing in his new charge, God Willing.

Scott closed the evening in prayer and our members, friends and parents stayed on to enjoy each other’s company.

We will see one another again at the beginning of October when we will restart our season.

We commend Amy to our Young People’s Society when it starts in September but look forward to receiving new members, God Willing, in October.

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On Saturday 23^rd February the 1^st Irish Union Young Adults dinner was held in The Otter Lodge, Cookstown.  The night was well attended by young adults mostly from Tyrone and Fermanagh.  We all enjoyed a great meal, followed by short talk from the Irish President Rosemary McDaniel titled ‘Put God First’.  After the meal a very enjoyable time of fun and fellowship was had during a Beetle Drive organised by Mark Crawford.  Thanks to everyone who attended and helped in any way to make the night a success.   

Sharon Mc Elroy

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This year Spring Rhythm was once again held at Hillhall Presbyterian in sunny Lisburn. It was a jam-packed weekend of fun, fellowship and a healthy dose of madness and although numbers were down on previous years there was a real presence of God throughout the entire weekend.

The theme for this year was “Since You’ve Been Gone” and the speaker Stu Neill brought to us the importance of the Gospels and in particular the Great Commission. This started on the Friday night when we were reminded to ‘keep the main thing (the Gospels), the main thing’. The band as usual was amazing and we had great times of worship throughout the weekend. After playing some games, we all went quietly to bed and went to sleep immediately. (Well, after 3 hours of football and table tennis in the guy’s hall.

After all being gently awakened by Dave playing the some rocking tunes on the Mac, we got up for a new day. The morning was spent learning a bit about some different outreach organisations and events – Celebration Of Hope, Abaana and Blythswood. After hearing these groups, we had the task of coming up with our own outreach ideas, which produced some really worthwhile results.

After lunch we went out into Lisburn to take part in some outreach. There was praise, prayer and testimony and of course the ever popular puppet ministry. The rain held off for us and we were able to reach out to those on the streets.

That night after another amazing time of worship and praise with Stu once again bringing Gods word to us, we had a bit of a social which was led by John McCreedy were Hillhalls new minister showed everyone how dancing should be done!

The next morning, we led the morning service @ Hillhall and again Stu spoke really effectively about taking the Gospel out into the world around us. After a great lunch provided again by our ever-faithful chef Nicoleo, we packed up and went our separate ways, until next year of course!

However, it was not all-good news, Dave the main leader announced that this would be his last year in charge. We are all sad to see him go.

Stephen

Hillhall YPCE

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