1. family and parenting
2. children

CARNMONEY.ORG
Sunday 18
January 2015
W
elcome to worship in
Carnmoney! We hope that
you will be challenged and
moved in our services and that you
will be able to participate fully with
us in the praise of God. If you are
new to the congregation you will find
information about our activities at the
Reception Desk in the main vestibule.
11.00/MORNING WORSHIP
18.00/EVENING WORSHIP
LEADERSHIP - HOW?
1 Peter 5 1-11
Baptisms
MARRIAGE PREPARATION CLASS
CAP JOB CLUB
VOTERS LIST
+ more inside....
CARNMONEYCHURCH
NEWS, EVENTS & NOTICES
11.00/MORNING WORSHIP
Little Stars for children up to 3 years.
Sunday’s Kool for Nursery age - P7
18.00/EVENING WORSHIP
Starts with tea, coffee & fellowship
Worship begins around 18.30
TODAY/SUNDAY 18 JANUARY
SUNDAY 25 JANUARY 2015
11.00/MORNING WORSHIP
18.00/EVENING WORSHIP
LEADERSHIP - WHO?
Acts 6 8-15
PRAYER MINISTRY
is available after all services
PODCAST MINISTRY
Audio podcasts of Sunday sermons can
be accessed on the Media page of our
website or at carnmoney.podbean.com
or on iTunes (just search for “Carnmoney”)
DVDS & CDS
will be available for delivery each
Wednesday from outside the
church office.
I56 HOUSE OF PRAYER
One hour slots can be booked by contacting Ben - 07843661481 or i56@carnmoney.
org. The new key code and more information will be provided once you book.
You can also connect with i56 through our
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook page by
following @i56Prayer, or using the hashtag
#i56Prayer. Thanks!
INFORMATION
The Welcome Desk is open before and after
worship. Please use the new cards in the
pews to keep in touch.
Green Cards - to request information about
joining and supporting our ministries and
activities.
Multi-Coloured Cards - to register an
interest in using your gifts to serve.
Blue Cards - to inform us of pastoral
information about yourself or someone
else.
Michael Wylie will respond to information
on the Green and Multi-Coloured cards,
and Jean Pillar to the Blue cards.
THE GRACE OF GIVING
Be Joyful and Generous!
We thank God for His clear direction for the
New Halls Project. As part of this families
may wish to give a family Christmas Gift for
the project in the New Halls Gift Envelope
or Text £10 at CARN99 £amount to 70070
or donate online at www.carnmoney.org
Just Giving.
BEREAVEMENT
We regret to announce the deaths on
Friday 16 January of Mr Robert Beattie, late
of Whiteabbey Care Home and Mr James
Hume late of Massereene Nursing Home
and extend our loving sympathy to the
family circles at this sad time.
THANK YOU
A big thank you from the Hughes family
for all your prayers and cards following our
recent bereavement. Thank you to all those
who were involved in Hannah’s service
including John and Karen and to everyone
who provided and served refreshments.
Finally a big thank you to Amanda Patterson who visited Hannah regularly. Hannah
really enjoyed your visits to our home.
Henry, Michael, Tara, Michael junior and the
wider family circle.
CARNMONEY.ORG
NEWS, EVENTS & NOTICES
ALPHA
Alpha kicks off on Monday 19 January
at 7.30pm at Established Coffee in the
Cathedral Quarter. We’re kicking off with
food, a gig from Sullivan & Gold and a
chance to find out what Alpha is all about
– all for FREE. Got questions about life?
Just recently became a Christian? Know
somebody you could invite? Come explore
Life and Faith on Alpha.
PW
The next meeting of the PW will be on
Tuesday 20 January at 8.00pm in the Minor
Hall. The meeting will be led by Christine
Dickinson and some members of our group.
Ladies are also reminded that there will be a
‘Sale Table’ at the end of the evening.
CHAT N PLAY
Wednesday 21 January. We welcome
Norman and Linda Patterson from Project
Romania. They will be updating us on the
ongoing projects they are involved in and
collecting the foods we have accumulated
for them. The following would especially
be appreciated: Tinned corn beef and tuna/
dried pasta and rice/dried baby food/porridge oats/diluted juice (can be store brands
eg Tesco value range) All ladies welcome
from 9.30am in the Kingsmoss Room.
COAST
is back this term for all teenagers. 20 – 22
February 2015. More details coming soon!
CATALYST CONFERENCE: FRIDAY 27
FEBRUARY – SUNDAY 1 MARCH 15
We’re delighted to welcome Karl Martin
from Central Church in Edinburgh as
our guest for the Catalyst Conference
at Carnmoney this year. The Conference
begins on the Friday at 7.30pm, tickets are
£5 and can be purchased online or after
worship from Sunday 25 January.
CATALYST BREAKFAST
Are you involved in serving or leading in
any area of church life? If the answer is yes,
then we’d love you to join us for the The
Breakfast on Saturday 28 February (9.30am
– 12.30pm) here in church. This will be an
opportunity to connect with other leaders
and volunteers to reflect on current
practice and prepare to develop the
ministry you are involved in. Please speak
to Michael Wylie or your organisational
leader to book your place.
FUSION TONIGHT
Bake off, Extreme Makeover and a
Chocolate Fountain will all help us to
explore the BASIC STORY. Plus we will
launch details of our 2015 Fusion Weekend
and forms will be available for the first
time. For all Years 8+ from 8.00 – 9.45pm.
THE ZONE
A meeting of all the Zone Team will take
place on Tuesday night in the Session
Room from 7-8pm. If you are involved as
a leader in either Junior or Senior Zone
please come along to discuss our plans for
the rest of the year. Senior Zone will meet
as normal on Friday night from 8-10pm.
No Junior Zone this Saturday night.
MARRIAGE PREPARATION CLASSES
will commence on Wednesday 28 January
in the Session Room for 5 weeks. Anyone
getting married in 2015 or 2016 are
welcome to come along. For further
information speak to John Dickinson.
GRIEFSHARE
will commence on Thursday 12 March for
approximately 10 weeks. Further details
to follow or contact Jean Pillar for more
information.
CARNMONEYCHURCH
NEWS, EVENTS & NOTICES
PARENTING COURSE
The Parenting Children Course will be held
in Carnmoney Church commencing Monday
23 February and every Monday night until 23
March from 7.00pm - 9.30pm.
The Course is for any parent or carer of
children, whether they consider themselves to
have strong parenting skills or are struggling.
The practical tools of the Course are applicable
to everyone who has responsibility for a child
or children from birth up to the age of 10
years.
Titles of the weekly DVDs are:
• Building Strong Foundations.
• Setting Boundaries.
• Teaching Healthy Relationships.
• Our long term aim.
The course is free and will be hosted by the
Pastoral Care Team. Due to limited places
would you please contact Jean Pillar 075 9010
9699 to reserve a place.
HOUSE OF HOPE, MOLDOVA
Can you help? A team is heading to
House of Hope on 13 February 2015.
Like last year we hope to bring over warm
winter coats, this time for the children of the
Church and Sunday School our own House
of Hope children attend. If you would like to
donate a coat please contact Nicola or myself
as below:
ALISON KELLY 07835772861
[email protected]
NICOLA BLAIN 07783179322
[email protected]
TELL ROMANIA presents - DRIVE 2015.
A Musical Evening will take place at The Royal
Court Hotel, Portrush on Thursday 5 February
at 7.45pm. There will be a varied programme
of music and song (gospel, classical, jazz)
proceeds towards orphans and terminally ill
babies and children, Romania) Tickets £10. For
further information speak to Alan Hopper.
STRUGGLING WITH DEBT?
Call free on 0800 328 0006
www.capuk.org
Brian Givans Centre Manager
07891 896295
CAP JOB CLUB
The next Job Club begins on Monday
19 January at 10.00am. Our aim is to help
get people back into the work place by
dealing with issues such as interviews,
what employers look for, CVs etc. CAP
Job Club is for unemployed people of all
ages. For more information please contact
Sharon Abernethy 078 1413 7248.
CAP MONEY COURSE
Our next CAP Money course starts on
Monday 9 February at 7.00pm.
CAP Money is a 3-session Money
Management couse for all ages, whether
your finances are under control or not
and each session lasts about one hour.
To register on-line, go to ‘Christians
Against Poverty’ website and click on
CAP Money Course or simply come to
‘Reception’ in the Church on 9 February.
HELPING HANDS FOOD MINISTRY
A container is available outside church
office, Mon to Fri 9am – 2.30pm or in
the vestibule on Sunday for any of the
following items for our food ministry.
CARNMONEY.ORG
NEWS, EVENTS & NOTICES
Tins - soups/beans/meat/fish/stewed
steak/pies/potatoes/vegetables/spaghetti.
Dried food/pasta/long grain rice/ savoury
rice/noodles/pasta sauce/curry sauce
etc/cereals/tea bags/coffee/sugar/jars of
baby food/concentrated juice. Toilet rolls/
soap/shampoo/deodorant/shower gel/
toothpaste/nappies/baby wipes/kitchen
rolls/bin bags.Washing up liquid/powder.
VOTERS LIST
Copies of the draft Voters List for 2015 are
on display in the Vestibule and first floor
landing of the church building. If you think
that you have been wrongly included or
excluded from the list please speak to the
Clerk of Session, Paul Elliott today at the
latest. The definition of a voting member
and how to lodge an objection to any other
name on or excluded from the list are set
out below:
Voting Members
175(1) Voting members in the Church are
communicants on the roll of the congregation who are listed, whether by name
or number, as having contributed to the
stipend or weekly freewill offering of the
congregation in the last financial year.
(2) In addition to those so listed the following shall also be qualified, if themselves
communicants on the roll (a) A wife shall be qualified on a husband’s
contribution, and vice versa, where both are
communicants. This shall also apply should
the contributor himself or herself not be a
communicant. If neither husband nor wife in
such circumstances is a communicant, then
their contribution shall qualify the eldest
child, residing in the family, who is on the
communicants’ roll.
(b) Should a contributor, who is not a communicant, be a member of a family residing
together, then his contribution shall qualify
the eldest member residing in the family
who is on the communicants’ roll.
(c) Those who have been added to the communicants’ roll of the congregation since the
close of the last financial year, upon confirmation by the treasurer that they have contributed during the current year, shall also be
qualified voters.
MISSION AFRICA are currently looking to
send approximately 6-8 people (17+) to
Nigeria from 1st-28th August 2015. Activities
will include youth and children’s ministry,
sports clubs, discipleship groups and
Bible club programmes. I will be leading
this team, so any questions, please get in
touch, applications can be found on www.
missionafrica.org.uk. Lauren McCartney
([email protected])
THE CHURCH IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
CONFERENCE
sponsored by Union College and Council for
Church in Society, will take place on Thursday
22 January from 10am to 3.30pm in Assembly
Buildings, Belfast. The theme is “Living and
Dying Well” and the conference will deal with
a number of sensitive and important issues
facing our society connected with the end
of life. The speakers are experts in this area
and the conference organisers are confident
that this will be an excellent event. The issues
dealt with will be of interest to medical people
and those in the caring professions as well as
pastors, lay visitors and those who work in the
legal profession. There is still an opportunity
to register for the conference by telephoning
Union College (9020 5080) or emailing
[email protected] Further information is
available on the PCI website.
NOTES
CARNMONEY.ORG
INFORMATION & RESOURCES
MONDAY
Boys Brigade
Junior Section / P5 - P7 / 7– 9pm
• Bowls / Minor Hall / 7pm
TUESDAY
• Girls Brigade / All Sections
Ladybirds / 3 - 5yrs / 6 - 7pm
Explorers / 6 - 8 yrs / 6 - 7.15pm
Juniors / 9 - 11 yrs / 7.15 - 8.30pm
Seniors / 12 - 14 yrs / 7.30 - 9pm
Brigaders / 15 - 18 yrs / 7.30 - 9pm
• PW / 1st & 3rd Tues / Minor Hall /8pm
WEDNESDAY
• Tots & Co / Greenmount / 10-11.30am
• Chat & Play / Kingsmoss / 9.30am
• Advice Centre: For an appointment
Telephone 07581 203354 or 07716 396222
• Pastorates / 1st & 3rd weeks
• Badminton / Greenmount / 7.30pm
• Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
7.00pm to 8.30pm (for more info contact
[email protected])
THURSDAY
• Boys Brigade
Pre Anchors / Nursery & P1 / 6-7pm
Anchors / P2 - P4 / 6.45-7.45pm
Company Section / 11-18yrs / 7.309.45pm
FRIDAY
• Christian Endeavour
All Sections / 3-18 yrs / 6.30 - 7.30pm
• The Zone Senior / year 8-12 / 8-10pm
• Bowls/ Minor Hall/ 7pm
SATURDAY
• The Zone Junior / P4-P7 / 7-8.45pm
(fortnightly)
SUNDAY
• Little Stars up to 3 years from 11am
• Connect/ Year 8 upwards / Upstairs Room
/11.30am-12.30pm.
• Sunday’s Kool /Nursery-P7 / 11.20am
• Fusion / Year 8 upwards / 8-9.45pm
•
STAFF CONTACT DETAILS
John Dickinson/ Minister
[email protected]
Work Mobile: 07590 562617
Jean Pillar/ Pastoral Associate
[email protected]
Work Mobile: 07590 109699
Michael Wylie/ Discipleship Associate
[email protected]
Work Mobile: 07815 154534
David Dickinson/Worship Associate
[email protected]
Mobile 07816485766
Rick Hill/ Youth Associate
[email protected]
Work Mobile 07855 723568
Brian Givans/ CAP Centre Manager
[email protected]
Office phone: 028 9083 3073
Work Mobile: 07891 896295
Sharon Abernethy/CAP Job Club Manager
[email protected]
Work Mobile: 07814 137248
Gillian White/Office Administrator
[email protected] Church Office: 028 9083 8404
Open 09.00-15.00, Monday to Friday
Alex McFarlane/Caretaker
Mobile: 07810 366800
WORSHIP,
COMMUNITY,
WITNESS.
As part of God’s family we exist to
worship Jesus Christ, follow His
example and share with everyone the Good News of His love.
CARNMONEYCHURCH/
A congregation of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland
258 Carnmoney Road,
Newtownabbey
BT36 6JZ
Office/ 028 90838404
[email protected]
www.carnmoney.org
@ChurchCarnmoney
CARNMONEYCHURCH