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Shoebox Appeal 2015

30/10/2015

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2015 Blytheswood Shoe Box Appeal
Jean McIlroy hands over a total of 68 boxes and £110 in donations to John Brown (Blytheswood Shoe Box Appeal 2015)
Shoeboxes were handed over to John Brown, a representative from Blytheswood, in respect of the 2015 Shoe Box Appeal.  We handed over a total of 68 boxes and £110 in donations, including 16 Shoeboxes from Dromore Beavers and 10 from Rademon NSP Church.
​Jean  McIlroy said, "This was an excellent effort and I would like to thank all who contributed."
Jean McIlroy received 15 Shoeboxes from Rhonda Beck of Dromore Beavers
Rhonda Beck hands over 16 Shoeboxes from Dromore Beavers
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What a bargain!

11/10/2015

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Norman Lindsay celebrates more than 40 years of Dromore Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church Bowling Club
Norman Lindsay celebrates more than 40 years of Dromore Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church Bowling Club
Norman Lindsay was baptized in Dromore Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church and is a life-long member, serving for many years on the Church Committee. I photographed Norman during celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the church Bowling Club in 2007.

Now-a-days sports people often have to have the latest, best, most expensive, most up-to-date equipment available. Norman holds one of the two bowls he bought for £5 in JC Patterson's (Lisburn) when he joined the, then, new Dromore Non-Subscribing Church Bowling Club in 1967 - and he still has them!

Norman told me that he'd have loved to buy the set of four, but he could only afford two.

​Still, they've served him well - and long.
Founding members of Dromore Bowling Club which is celebrating its 25th anniversary are Sammy Malcolmson, Joe Elliott, Norman Lindsay, Kenneth Aiken and SG Malcolmson.
Norman Lindsay is also a Founding Member of Dromore Bowling Club
Dromore bowler Norman Lindsay on the green.
Dromore bowler Norman Lindsay on the green
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A still, small voice...

11/10/2015

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​Mrs Linda Ballard was a visiting speaker during October. During her Children's Address she talked about the beauty and shape of a rainbow: how one might describe it as "bridge-shaped". Mrs Ballard likes to think of a bridge between God and us when she sees a rainbow.

She took Acts 17: 16-34 as her New Testament Reading:
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.  26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.  27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.  28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' 

....and linked this to God's "still, small voice" to Elijah.

​God's presence may be in the wind and fire, but He is so close to us as to be able to speak to us in a "still, small voice" - if only we will take the time to listen.
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Linda Ballard is a student minister at Union Theological College, QUB and has just completed her M.Th. in the history of non-subscription.
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Harvest Services - why not join us?

3/10/2015

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Combine Harvester in field at sunset
Robert Mackey in the Combine Harvester at Dromore, Co Down

Harvest Services - Sunday 4th October 2015
11.30am Rev Sam Peden
  6.00pm Rev Ros
alind Taggart
Refreshments
 after the evening service​ - EVERYONE welcome!

Stained glass window decorated for Harvest Service
A church window decorated for Harvest
Anna and many from the congregation have been preparing out church for our Harvest Service. The Harvest Festival reminds Christians of all the good things God gives them. This makes them want to share with others who are not so fortunate. In schools and churches we bring food form home to a Harvest Festival Service and after the service, the food that has been put on display is usually made into parcels and given to people in need. We will have a team of helpers to distribute our gifts on Monday morning.

The modern British tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall. Victorian hymns such as "We plough the fields and scatter", "Come ye thankful people, come" and "All things bright and beautiful" helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival Service. (Source: Wikipedia)
Harvest Service Choir at Dromore Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church
The Harvest Choir (photo: Jean McIlroy)
Members of the congregation at Dromore Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church decorate the church for Harvest
Anna McVeigh and some of the helpers who are decorating the church for Harvest Services in Dromore
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