Further thoughts to come

Well it’s nearly a week since I’m back from the Youth Ministry Summer School, lots to take in, think and pray through and ponder.  It’s good to step back from the “doing” of ministry, and think through the why and how.  Was reminded again that our ministry comes out of the depth of our own [...]

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MAD

Just getting round to penning a few thoughts on the MAD weekend, organised by PCI hosted in Coleraine university.  This was the ninth year that MAD has ran, but the first year our church has taken a group of young people to it.  Things take a while to filter out to the sticks obviously, but [...]

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Alot to ponder…… A few thoughts

Back a couple of days from the Youth Ministry Summer School, still pondering alot of what was said and thought throughout the course of the weekend in the teaching, conversations, devotions and times of solace. A big thing that spoke to me throughout all that was said was the way in which we communicate [...]

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Kingdom Come Conference

Kingdom Come……..more than words Conference
Challenging, refreshing, inspiring, educational, rewarding: these are all words I would use as I reflect on the few days I spent at the above conference. Sometimes you get bogged down doing “stuff” in church related activities, and you loose focus on who your serving and why your serving Him. [...]

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Coming up…..

I’m taking a couple of days leave this week that I have to use up, and am going to the Kingdom Come conference. Really looking forward to it, insightful speakers, thought provoking topics and hopefully some good contacts will be made and interesting conversations had. Will post some thoughts along the way hopefully. [...]

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Resources

Resourced Out
Well in my last post I was heading off to the Christian resources exhibition at the Kings Hall, and overall I would say it was a beneficial experience. Came home from it laden down with information and sample resources from a number of organisations involved in a wide range of fields. Some [...]

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Get a life

Having returned from the final evening celebration at the Get a Life conference I suppose these are a few notes on reflection

First and foremost, what a priviledge it was to be a delegate at this event, to receive the expert teaching, experience the uplifting worship and partake in the group discussions
What a breath of fresh [...]

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Get a life Conference

At the conference today we were looking at “Meaningful Worship”. Don Carson walked us through John 4 looking at how we should worship in Spirit and truth, taking the example of Jesus encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well as our focus. We looked at how Jesus broke down the barriers of [...]

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GET A LIFE CONFERENCE

Usual mixed emotions experienced before this evening began : apprehension, un-certainty, excitement, anticipation
Reflecting on it now my feelings are that of joy and excitrment. Joy in that I am fortionate to be at the event and in this position as the church considers its future. Excitement about how God will use this conference [...]

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GET A LIFE – God : real and relevant

You may remember I posted about this event that I will be attending a few months back
http://colinforeman.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_colinforeman_archive.html.

Well the event begins next monday night, and having just received the conference material at church yesterday, I can now say I am quite excited about the prospect of what this could become. The conference, run by the [...]

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