Murlough Beach

Bring warm clothes for when the sun goes down and a waterproof coat… just in case!

Under 18’s bring a note of permission from your parents.

Drop off and collection at the church.

We are asking you to get people to sponsor you to not eat from 11:59pm on Thursday to 11:59pm on Friday.

We will be finishing the fast with an extended praise time and then a midnight fry!

We will also be staying in the Church overnight for games and activities and some early morning movies… aka sleep time!

If you would like to join us please raise at least £10  and print off and bring the permission form signed by your parents.

24hr FAST consent form

Peter, one of the soon to be home owners, worked along side us and Rab kept us all in high spirits and entertained with his “great” jokes.

Challenged to Live Life

by suzyandchris1

One of the most worthwhile things I have done in life was to invite a homeless immigrant to live with me and help him to get back to his family in Slovakia. For the week that he stayed, I felt like I was actually doing something with my life, not just watching it pass by. Obviously, this was taking a risk; other similar adventures have ended up being a bit messy (sorry again, Lynne).

We don’t do stuff like this much; it doesn’t fit with the human quest for security, predictability and comfort. People who have standard of living substantially below ours make us uncomfortable and it’s a dangerous thing to let them in too close. They could mess up our comfortable little life.

We all have a big problem though. Our quest for a predictable comfortable life leaves us bored out of our minds. We spend half our life not taking these risks for fear of jeopardising our comfort and security. But we spend the other half trying to escape from the monotony we have created (through television, holidays, nights on the town, theme parks, alcohol, drugs, affairs, and anything else we can invent).

We’ve fallen into the same trap here. When you are in a new country with a culture you don’t understand, it becomes really important to be ‘cautious’ and to be ‘wise’ in how we act. And so we set about finding a sensible little life. We make sure we don’t teach people that when they see a muzungu, they can ask for handouts. We make sure that we don’t start giving away things we can’t keep up. We make sure that no-one takes advantage of our ignorance. Bit by bit, under the disguise of ‘wisdom’, fear and the quest for security and predictability take over.

Then God speaks: Walk in love, not in fear. Don’t keep your brothers and sisters at arms length; it is time to open up your life to all the people I am sending your way. All you have, I have given you and I’ll keep providing for you as you give it all away. Trust me.

And so this is our challenge.
To happily give away what we have, without concern for what we will eat tomorrow or the next day.
To embrace the people we’ve kept at arms length (here, these are the people who spend the majority of each day absolutely hammered or the people who are so poor they have no shoes or no teeth).
To let love and compassion triumph over ‘wisdom’ and fear even if that makes life a bit messy.
What does it look like where you are?

Ulster Rugby Trip Permission Form

Bring some extra cash for McD’s on the way home!

With Summer Madness speaker

ANDY HICKFORD

Andy Hickford, 24/7 Prayer and lots of others are coming together for a night to share the stories and inspiration about how we, through simple actions in everyday life, can speak out for those who can’t be heard!

@ BELFAST BIBLE COLLEGE

Meet at the church at 6:30.

Home by 11pm.

Monday 30st January to Sunday 5th

IN THE BEGINNING

51 The Word Became Flesh John 1:1–1:18

52 Gabriel’s Message Luke 1:1–1:80

53 The Birth of Jesus Luke 2:1–2:40