343/365:2010 Bauble

The only photo I took today, and it's shaky... The church Christmas tree is up!

341/365:2010 Seniors' Christmas Lunch

A great event this afternoon for our older parishioners. Two course meal, catered by McKee's, comedy from a Jimmy Cricket impersonator, Bible Talk from Raymond Magowan, and carols by the P5 choir from the Primary School. We even managed to set alight a party hat and a tablecloth in two separate incidents with tealights!

337/365:2010 Snowy St Elizabeth's

The new church and the old church side by side, in the snows of December 2010. Sadly someone had already been for a spin in the car park by the time I got up to take some photos!

283/365:2010 Great Catch

Harvest decorations in St Elizabeth's Church, Dundonald. The pulpit becomes a boat, complete with fishing nets, a lifebelt and lots of silver fish!

282/365:2010 Bishop Wallace Benn

As seen on Top Gear, our speaker for the weekend is the Bishop of Lewes, Wallace Benn. Today we had three Bible teaching sessions (on the book of Acts), as well as some family activities in the park during the afternoon.

281/365:2010 Swing Your Partner!

It's Harvest Weekend in church, and we had our Harvest (Sausage/Chicken/Pasty) Supper from the Golden Chip, followed by a Barn Dance. I think this was the only dance I wasn't up for all night, so got a photo taken.

276/365:2010 Shhh!

Tuck Shop duty at SET (St Elizabeth's Teens). The young people certainly don't wispa!

258/365:2010 The Lord's Table

Midweek Holy Communion again. We go for a fairly basic set up on the Lord's Table.

257/365:2010 Church Chronicles

One of my bookshelves with books on the church.

252/365:2010 Behind Bars

The view of the sunset from behind the bars of the church office while I was in photocopying prior to the Select Vestry meeting tonight. Select Vestry is the committee of the local parish church, elected annually at Easter.

230/365:2010 Holy Communion

Every other Wednesday morning we have a midweek service. This morning I was celebrating the Lord's Supper.

176/365:2010 Unleash the Prayers!

Published the new version of our church Prayer Diary this afternoon, so they're all set ready to be distributed on Sunday to help people pray through a verse, a situation, and some church members each day through the summer.

174/365:2010 Neon Cross

Landmark at the bottom of the Newtownards Road on a Presbyterian Church.

169/365:2010 The Burning Bush

Tonight I went over to the other side - of Church Green, to the Presbyterian Church for the Installation of their new minister, William. Turned out I went to school with his brother-in-law so we got a good catch up and wondered where the 13 years had gone since we left Dromore High!

160/365:2010 Morning Prayer

This morning we had the traditional Morning Prayer service. A little photo of the big window.

154/365:2010 Dromore Cathedral

This weekend they're celebrating 1500 years of Christian witness on this site in Dromore, County Down. This is the current building on the site, the Cathedral Church of Christ the Redeemer.

136/365:2010 Preached!

Sunday again, and tonight I was preaching from Genesis 29 on Jacob finding a wife and getting two.

134/365:2010 Wedding Shadowing

Today was the first wedding in St E's since our arrival two years ago, so I was shadowing Tim to see how he leads it, given that we have five next year! Congratulations to Philip and Joanne on their special day!

127/365:2010 Family Fun Night

A great evening at church with lots of families coming together for some fun and food! I didn't get the chance to take any photos at it so this was the signup sheet when I got home!

124/365:2010 CD in the Letterbox

One of the less well-known ministries of our church is the CD ministry. Elderly and housebound members of the congregation are visited each week with a cd copy of the morning and evening services. While I'm not elderly or housebound, I get a copy of the CDs to upload the sermons onto the church sermon blog. Last Sunday's CDs arrived today. Thanks Frazer and Carol!