mullavilly news - oct 2010

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www.mullavilly.armagh.anglican.org

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



Sunday 14th Family Service guest:Adam Pearson

Thursday 18th 8pm Bible Study with CMS


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.

thepulpit

Edith prepares a display of fruit

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY


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Mullavilly News | October/November 2010

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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Mullavilly News | October/November 2010

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

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MULLAVILLY PARISH CHURCHPRESENTS

COUNTRY & GOSPEL CONCERT

Wednesday 27th October 2010in Mullavilly Parish Centre

CHILDRENS HEARTBEAT TRUST

CARDIAC CARE ASSOCIATION CHURCH FUNDS

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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.

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