Harvest Thanksgiving
The Harvest Thanksgiving Services will be held next Sunday 12th October at
9.30 am, 11.30 am and 6.30 pm. Donations of fruit and flowers should be left in
the Church on Thursday 9th October after 6.00 pm or on Friday 10th October. If you would prefer to give a donation towards flowers, please leave it in the Church Office before Friday.
On Thursday 2nd October, the Junior Section had a visit from Grace Wilson, who gave a demonstration on The Shoebox Appeal, in conjunction with Operation Christmas Child.
This annual project enables caring individuals, families, schools, churches, businesses, and other organisations to fill ordinary shoe boxes with small toys, school supplies, sweets, and other gifts for needy children around the world. Operation Christmas Child sends a message of hope to children in need around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes. Operation Christmas Child is the world’s largest children’s Christmas project. Since 1990 the project has brought the joy of Christmas to more than 60 million boys and girls throughout the world. Last year we sent 1.30 million shoe boxes from the UK to children in hospitals, orphanages, Internally Displaced Persons camps, homeless shelters and impoverished neighbourhoods.
This mornings 9.30am, Saints are Coming service which featured U2 songs led by Ali & Suz Bennett, and a talk on U2 by Steve Stockman, is available on DVD.
DVD’s are available from the Church Office, for £4.
If you wish to order a DVD, you can do so in person at the Church office, or alternatively, sending your payment and address details to the Church, and one shall be posted.
We have now rectified the problem with the webcast breaking up.
We have upgraded to a new server, which also allows more viewers (150) so there shouldn’t be any problems connecting.
Please let us know how your viewing experience is this weekend.
The Anchor Boy programme started with songs and rhymes, when parents and friends were treated to the boy’s interpretation, in song and costume, of “Five Little Speckled Frogs”, “Five Little Monkeys” and “Ten Coke Bottles”.
A quick change saw all the boys involved in a series of games, followed by a drama telling a modern version of the story of “The Good Shepherd”. This was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience with each boy acting his socks off although it did seem it was the little lambs who were stealing the show! The drama concluded with the boys singing, in pure and sweet voices, “The Lord is my shepherd, I’ll trust in Him always” and the evening’s programme concluded with the presentation of prizes.
Rev Williamson, in thanking the Anchorboy leaders, commented that it was apparent a great deal of hard work been made throughout the session and for this excellent display.
On Friday 7th March 2008, we celebrated Stephen’s 50th Birthday.
We had a meal, prepared by Doreen Halliday and Trevor & Liz Gaston, followed by Ceilidh style entertainment.
Photos are available in the online Church PhotoAlbum.
If you took any photos on the evening that we can add to the PhotoAlbum, please email them to us
We have produced a Ballywillan Christmas Card, which is on sale from now onwards.
These are available from the Church office during the office hours, or speak to Jonny Bingham, between the services on Sunday.
Cards come complete with envelopes and are sold as follows:
£1 for one card
£4 for pack of 5
From Sunday 30h September, we will commence streaming our Traditional Morning worship service, live at 11.30am, in addition to the usual 9.30am stream.
To share in the service, log on to http://www.ballywillanpci.org and select WEBCAST
Note: You need Windows Media Player to view
On Sunday, 26th August 2007, we hope to be webcasting at our higher bandwidth. Both the audio and video will be improved, giving better sound and picture clarity, thus enabling you to watch the stream in fullscreen.
If you have any questions or suggestions, you can email the Webmaster – webmaster@ballywillanpci.org
