Weekly News Sheet 090201 Welcome: this week’s news sheet contains details of upcoming events. Did you read about the Lectures at Queeen’s in a few weeks’ time? Was that apostrophe correctly placed? see the attached file for details (though not of apostrophes)!
0901-marriage-leaflet-5.pdf Please find recently updated Marriage Guidelines here. A printed copy of our “Congratulations” document is available from the church office or the dean.
Please find here the Bible Study materials for the second January Fellowship Group meeting. You may wish to study this in pairs or as part of a fellowship group. For more information about Fellowship Groups in the parish, please contact the Church Office. “office@” the above site. :http://cathedral.dromore.anglican.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/0901-fellowship-groups-2.pdf
0902-parish-post-web.pdf This month’s edition of the Parish Post
090125-notices.pdf The Notice sheet distributed on Sunday 25th January is available for download. Please click on the highlighted text for a pdf file. PDF files can be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free of charge from www.adobe.com
Overnight Saturday/Sunday 17th and 18th January 2009, a series of short sudden storms affected Northern Ireland in general and Dromore in particular. Sharp gusts of winds must have damaged several trees in the area, or caused other structural damage as the electricity supply to the town of Dromore was interrupted in the evening and into the small hours.
It appeared that the supply was completely cut off around 1 am, and half an hour later (or so) some supply returned. While the Cathedral and Halls were still cut off until 8 am, and so the heating of the church was limited, we deeply appreciate the work of NIE in trying to get us all back into service as quickly as possible.
Often your work is anonymous, NIE guys, and so it was in this case, but please feel appreciated by those of us who spent the night warmly wrapped up in darkened homes while you toiled outside in the cold and dark to find and remedy faults in the system. Well done! SL
News Sheet for Sunday 18th January 2009 Thanks for coming to our website to check up on this. Please click on the link to get a pdf file of your news sheet for Sunday 18th January at Dromore Cathedral.
It is easy to term any time of need a crisis and to stir up interest and concern as a result. It can be a manipulative thing too, creating a response driven by guilt! But when your brother or sister is in need, under threat for their lives, and facing heavy demands which are beyond their capacity to carry, it is a genuine crisis for your family.
That is how it feels to me, to know that our brothers and sisters in Maridi are dealing with a huge influx of refugees from surrounding towns and villages. It is a time of increased tension in Southern Sudan with a rise in the level of attacks by LRA gangs on vulnerable people. So the churchwardens and I are appealing for members of the parish family to make an offering on Sunday 18th and 25th January to alleviate the practical needs of Bishop Justin and his team in Maridi. The offering on Sundays (other than regular envelopes) will be dedicated to relief in Maridi. Please give generously.
Stephen Lowry
Here is material for use in groups or pairs for January 2009. 0901 Fellowship Study. For another version try 0901-fellowship-groups.pdf.