Uganda Fashion Show

If you can make it to our fashion show on Saturday night you can be sure to have a great night and support a great cause. The girls have done an absoltuely fantastic job in pulling this all together and it sounds like it is going to be lots of fun....would love it if you can make it...

And then you...

We arrange our lives as best we can,
to keep your holiness at bay
with our pieties,
our doctrines,
our liturgies,
our moralities,
our secret ideologies.
Safe, virtuous, settled.

And then you -
you and your dreams,
you and your visions,
you and your purposes,
you and your commands,
you and our neighbours.
We find your holiness at bay,
but probing, pervading, insisting, demanding.
And we yield, sometimes gladly,
sometimes resentfully,
sometimes late.....or soon.

We yield because you, beyond us, are our God.
We are your creatures met by your holiness,
by your holiness made our true selves
And we yield.
Amen.

Walter brueggemann....

Ibzia Day

Hey guys,

Here is a soundbyte of some of what we are going to be exploring this Saturday with the Ibiza team.....have a feeling it is going to be a really inspiring day...directions for the place are linked below but it easy enough to find.

Session 1 - 10am

“Where’s the edge?” What's the vision? What's the big idea?
Jonah 1,
One day long ago, God's Word came to Jonah, Amittai's son: "Up on your feet and on your way to the big city of Nineveh! Preach to them. They're in a bad way and I can't ignore it any longer."
An exploration of the life of Jonah and his call to the edge.

Session 2 - 2pm

“Living on the edge”How then should we live?
Romans 12: 1
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering.

Prayer at the hub, developing and sustaining rhythms and models of prayer that propel us outward yet still feed us inwardly. Puke, mucus and blood and there uses in worship? What is our spiritual act of worship?

Session 3 - 7:30pm

“The view from the edge”What should we look like and how should we look at others?
Matthew 5:14
"I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven."

Communities of grace, a dialogue around the themes of kindness and grace and giving roses to prostitutes. Hospitality, what does it look like, how do we share life yet manage to preserve our sanity?

Bruce and Helen, two of the guys who are part of the Ibiza community will also do a seminar on mission in a clubbing culture...

Hopefully you'll book in and I'll see you on Saturday.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=seymour+street+methodist+church+Lisburn&ie=UTF8&ll=54.516274,-6.036172&spn=0.012655,0.038624&z=15&iwloc=A

liverpool Impresenations

Have a look at this for a laugh...absolutely brilliant!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QEm028lKA

LIFE ON THE EDGE

Above is a flyer for the gathering, LIFE ON THE EDGE, we (24-7prayer Ireland) are holding alongside YFC N.Ireland on Saturday 25th October. The 24-7 Ibiza community will be guiding us through some ideas/experiences of developing missional communities. Brian, Tracy will be there along with their boys Dan and Ellis. Bruce and Helen who are part of the Ibiza community will also be here and it promises to be a really amazing day. Days like this always seem to be brilliant for connecting with people thinking in similar ways and usually serve as a catalyst, inspiring us into deeper conversations and stirring us into action.

We would love you to come along and would love you to book early!! Details are on the flyer!! The day will involve Brian speaking and ministering; electives on missional communities and ministry in a clubbing context; stories from 24-7Ireland and YFC centres; prayer for Ireland. The sessions will be begin with worship and prayer and we have left time in the day for people to connect and share stories over lunch and dinner.

We would really encourage you to come along for the whole day but if you can only come in the evening we would love to see you. We are having an evening gathering with worship/prayer/ministry beginning at 7pm. Please let me know for numbers if you think you are going to be there

Please pass it on through your networks and friendships and hopefully see you on the 25th!!