mullavilly news - oct 2010
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Now that weve had our Harvest
thanksgiving so early in the year, it
certainly feels like its going to be a long
winter! However, it will hopefully not be an
idle one in the parish. By the time you read
this, the Boys Club, Badminton Club, Bowls
Club, Rainbows, Brownies and Guides will all
have started their autumn season. The Sunday
night Youth Fellowship will also have started
and hopefully the Friday Youth Club will have
a programme ready to run. You will also be
able to look forward to another Country
Concert (Oct 27th) and Pantomime (Dec 4th).
The mid-week Bible Study group will start on
Thursday October 14th at 8pm and run for 6
weeks (see dates below). I would truly love to
see more people making use of this
opportunity to delve deeper into their faith. I
get the impression sometimes that
parishioners feel that they have to be
particularly learned or confident in their faith
in order to attend a Bible Study. In the same
way that people can have a phobia about
learning to use a computer, there is also aphobia about faith-based activities, even in a
church. I can understand that. I must confess
to being reluctant to attend similar meetings
that are held for clergy, for fear that my own
lack of knowledge will be revealed and that
Ill be showed up. There is one such meeting
that I havent been to for years because I cant
read Hebrew! Our own Bible Study is not an
academic lecture, it is not a place where you
have to sit exams or have any background
knowledge. You do not have to speak or
debate. The primary aim is to give you
encouragement to reflect on your faith, to
challenge you to look a little deeper and, if
possible to find a few answers. Do give somethought to coming out on a Thursday night to
this group.
www.mullavilly2010.org October / November 2010
THE HARVEST IS OVER
colourful hydrangea at the lectern
September
Sunday 26th 3:15pm Brackagh LOL Harvest
Tuesday 28th 8pm Mothers Union RuralDeanery service in Ballymore
OctoberSunday 3rd Select Vestry photo call after
11am service
Thursday 7th Marriage of Philippa Masonand Peter Holmes
Monday 11th 8pm Brian preaching atClare Harvest
Thursday 14th 8pm Bible Study
Thursday 21st 10:30am Ramblin Rose
8pm Bible Study
Friday 22nd Marriage of Jayne Hallidayand Paul Holywood
Saturday 23rd Marriage of Donna Kearneyand Wayne Fletcher
Sunday 24th Guest preacher the Revd Geoff Wilson
Wed. 27th 8pm Country Concert
November
Thursday 4th 8pm Bible Study
Thursday 11th 8pm Bible Study
Sunday 14th Family Service guest:Adam Pearson
Thursday 18th 8pm Bible Study with CMS
Thursday 25th 8pm Bible Study
Sunday 28th final Bicentenary Guest the Revd Malcolm Kingston
Every Thursday morning (except RamblinRose days) the Over 55 group will continuetheir line-dancing in the Parish Centre.
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Edith prepares a display of fruit
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
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The Bicentenary celebration weekend wasabsolutely wonderful. The feedback fromall the services, especially Friday night, has
been superb and it was a real privilege to takepart. Our thanks go to all who helped with the
arrangements. The photos are on the website
and there are a few in this magazine to
remind you of the occasion.
The following prayer was used at our
bicentenary service and was borrowed from
the magazine of St Marks Armagh.
Father of all, we pray that to this church all
may be welcome.
Here may little ones love to come and young
people be strengthened for the battle of life.
Here may parents find encouragement, those
at work be helped in their decisions, the lonely
find fellowship and the elderly be affirmed in
their faith.
Here may the doubting find hope; the
despairing find joy, those under pressure
experience peace and all who suffer illness
know your healing touch.
Here may all of us be assured of forgiveness
and be challenged by your love, heard in Holy
Scriptures and faithfully proclaimed in thepreaching of the Word and the celebration of
the sacraments.
May all who enter to pray and worship within
these walls go out from this place rejoicing,
enabled to live and work to your praise and
glory, in the power of your Spirit and in thename of your Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. Amen
BICENTENARY CELEBRATION
Squire Metcalfe with ladies from the parish Mrs W McKee, Mrs J McClelland, Mrs A Neill and
Mrs L Stewart with children Master Matthew and Miss Chloe.
Brett delivers a reading at the celebration.
Violet and Hilda dress for the occasion
Matthew
and Chloe
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At the start of the summer, Aart and Geesjewere blessed by the arrival of their 4th child,Lisa. The family will be home for 6 monthsafter Christmas and will hopefully be visitingus in Mullavilly. Next autumn, we are planningto send a small team to visit with them inArua. The following is their latest update.
Lisa (8 weeks old now) is asleep while theother kids are all off to school and nursery. Agood time to catch up on news from Arua.Great news of course is the safe and quick (nottaking into account the 10 waiting days after
the due date) arrival of Lisa on the 22nd of June. She was born here at home, withwonderful assistance from 2 English CMS
midwives. We are very grateful to ourHeavenly Father for the people He provided tosurround us with around the time of givingbirth. The staff on our compound gave her aLugbara name too; Asianzu, which meansPeace. Our little girl was baptised here at thecathedral, it was very special to be welcomedinto the local church family and the world
wide church community during the service.
Carpentry & Joinery plus Brickbuilding &Concrete students have been and are still busyat various locations in Arua. The VTC was givenseveral contracts in the community. Thismeans more practice, more work experienceand a little more local income for the school.More over we pray that the workmen andtheir workmanship will be blessed, that
people from outside will recognise that theyare doing a good and fair job, so that our Godis given glory in our daily practice.Driving&Mechanic students are also gettingtheir hands on. More and more organisations
and people around the VTC recognise the skillsof our instructor.
Another initiative thats in progress is acomputer course and cyber caf. The VTCupgraded one of the class rooms and soon wehope to accommodate this business. Thecourse leader is a lady from Kenya who hasexperience with it and by renting the facilityto her the VTC hopes to be of service to thecommunity and again to raise local income for
the VTC to increase self sufficiency for theschool.
So thats all for now.
May God bless you in whatever you are doingin His Kingdom.
Geesje, Aart, Anne Fleur, Ruben, Jan Lucas and
Lisa den Breejen
(NB a representative from CMSI will be visitingus on November 18th to begin planning ourtrip to Arua)
AN UPDATE FROM OURMISSION PARTNERS
ARTISTS APPEARING
HEGGARTY TWINS
TONY KERR
ANN BREEN
BACKING BAND
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Kenny Archer
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COUNTRY & GOSPEL CONCERT
Wednesday 27th October 2010in Mullavilly Parish Centre
CHILDRENS HEARTBEAT TRUST
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The Den Breejen family with their new
arrival, Lisa
THE NEWGLOSSYMAGAZINEThe new glossy magazine was very well
received last month and the Select Vestry
have agreed to continue this standard of
publicationwith 5 editions per year .Obviously, it is considerably more expensive
than a photocopy. We considered both
subscriptions and sponsorship as a way of
financing the magazine and agreed to seek
sponsors. If you would like to be associated
with the sponsors, please contact Ian Milne.
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DATE FLOWERS CHURCH 11am NOTESMICE SCRIPTURE
Oct 3rd Brenda King Pauline Elaine Bleakney 11am HolyCommunion
Oct 10th Jean McClelland 11am FamilyService
Oct 17th Thelma McCrory Jonathan Mark Doyle 11am HolyCommunion
Oct 24th Edith McConville Christine Heather Harper 7:00pm HolyCommunion
Oct 31st Gwen Maginnis Carolyn Jonathan Harper
Nov 7th Julie Magowan Ann Samuel Harper 11am HolyCommunion
Nov14th Valerie Milne Ian Howard 11am FamilyService
Nov 21st Daphne Milligan Brian Andrew Irwin 11am HolyCommunion
Nov 28th Ivy Moneypenny Pauline Leslie Irwin
Rota TableBaptism Anniversary Cardspresented at Family ServicesOctober:
Alex Topley , Abby Uprichard(1st);Annie
Whiteman (2nd);Jamie Milligan, Adam
Thompson, Ben Roberts (4th)
Burials
4th September Dean Spears. Deans death
shocked the village and this shock and
sympathy was expressed by a large
attendance at his funeral. We remember
his family in our prayers.
7th September Tom McDonald
(Gilford Parish)
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CONTACTING THE CLERGY
The clock face before it was raised into position
The clock machinery
Inscription on the clock. The Revd Elias
Thackery donated the clock to a parish
church in Co Louth. Before his ordination,
he served in the Dragoons and is alleged to
have escorted Wolfe Tone to prison.