Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Children's Ministry Conference
Today (Saturday) in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, and today week in the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, there will be a National Children's Ministry Conference which has been organized by a group of representatives from various churches and organizations in Dublin and Belfast. The Church of Ireland is represented by the Revd Ann Taylor, from the Sunday School Society, and the Revd Ian Ellis, Secretary of the General Synod Board of Education, Northern Ireland.
The key-note speaker at both venues will be Nick Harding, a children's ministry officer in the Church of England, who has written worship songs for children and several books on schools ministry and all-age events. In addition there will be seminars on topics such as prayer, drama, music, pre-school ministry and nurturing faith.
The conference is aimed at those involved in ministry among children in parishes, schools and the wider community, both lay and ordained.
Meanwhile in the Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle, the Diocese of Down and Dromore will host a conference on reconciliation at which the principal speaker will be David Stevens, Leader of the Corrymeela Community, while in St Iberius' Church, Wexford, Bishop Edward Darling will lead a workshop on Anglican chant.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTÉ will televise a Service of Holy Communion for Advent Sunday with the auxiliary ministry ordinands of the Church of Ireland. The celebrant will be the Theological College Chaplain, the Revd Kevin Moroney, and the preacher will be the Principal, Canon Adrian Empey. Over this weekend the auxiliaries will have a presentation on contemporary liturgy by Dr Margaret Daly-Denton, a seminar on all age worship by Nick Harding and a RSCM workshop on liturgy and music with the Revd Tom Gordon.
In St Iberius' Church, Wexford, the Dean of Cork, the Very Revd Michael Burrows, will preach at the Advent Sunday Service, while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Bishop of Meath and Kildare who, in the evening, will preach in St Bride's Church, Mount Nugent, at a special service to celebrate the bi-centenary of the church. There will be an Advent Carol Service in Cashel Cathedral to mark the 200 th anniversary of the publication of the Cashel Hymnal, while the Enniskerry Gospel Choir will sing at the Advent Eucharist in Powerscourt Church where the preacher will be the Very Revd Matthew Byrne, author of the recently published The Way it Was, a narrative of the birth of Christ. At 8 pm in the Lady Chapel of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Gaudete Singers will give a concert of Scottish music of the 16th century.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the newly commissioned General Secretary of USPG, Bishop Michael Doe, will preach in St George's Church, Belfast, in the morning, and in St Mark's Church, Armagh, in the evening. On Monday he will meet the Archbishop of Armagh and the Bishop of Connor, who, on Tuesday, will introduce the Revd Gary Shaw as bishops' curate of Monkstown.
On Wednesday evening at 6.30 pm in St Catherine and St James' Church, Donore Avenue, the Archbishop of Dublin will launch a new book by the vicar of the St Patrick's Cathedral group of Parishes, Canon John Crawford. The Church of Ireland in Victorian Dublin, which is published by Four Courts Press, is based on Dr Crawford's doctoral research in Maynooth.
In St Fintan's Church, Durrow, Co. Laois, on Friday at 8 pm the Choir of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will give a concert which will also include the restored 1797 Green organ.
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