Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 28 April 2012
World Development Funding Allocations
In the first quarter of 2012 Bishops’ Appeal, the Church of Ireland’s vehicle for supporting the developing world, released a substantial amount of funding under its ‘Educate for Life’ scheme to support educational projects worldwide in the endeavour to alleviate poverty and suffering in communities across the globe.
€33,000 has been allocated to the Mother’s Union for Literacy Projects in Burundi and the Sudan, €33,000 to SAMS (South American Missions Society) for youth leadership programmes and higher level bursaries for impoverished students in Peru, and €33,000 to Tearfund for Church and community development projects in Myanmar. Several dioceses are raising funds for farming and educational projects in Haiti, Rwanda and Swaziland. Funds have also been directed to Friends of Hope for a HIV/AIDS programme in India (£19,434), to Aidlink for subsistence farmers in Uganda (€21,650) and to the Diocese of Shyogwe, Rwanda for school kitchens in a vocational school (€11,000).
The education and training people receive will have a direct impact on their food security, income generation, health and standard of living. This in turn is impacting on their input into other members of their communities. Bishops’ Appeal warmly thanks the generosity of the Church of Ireland which makes this kind of sustainable change possible.
Today (Saturday) the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe will preside at the Girls’ Friendly Society Diocesan Festival Service in Christ Church, Mountcharles, while the Bishop of Cork will hold his annual Confirmation Morning to meet all the confirmation candidates in the diocese for 2012. In Howth parish church hall the AGM of Church Mission Society Ireland will be held at 2pm. The special guest will be the Rt Revd Gaddiel Lenini, Bishop of Kajiado in Kenya, with a report from Dr Rory Wilson, Medical Superintendent of Kiwoko Hospital, and his wife, Denise, a clinical instructor at the Nursing School. Dr Wilson will also contribute to CMS Ireland Mid–Africa Focus Evening on Monday in the CMSI Belfast Office at 33 Dargan Road. The evening will also include a Skype– contribution from the newly appointed Bishop of Kibungo Diocese in Rwanda, the Rt Revd Emmanuel Ntazinda, who is keen to continue the developing partnership between Kibungo and the Church of Ireland.
This afternoon (Saturday) at 3pm in St. Patrick’s Kildrumferton, the Bishop of Kilmore will preside at the 200th anniversary celebrations, when the special preacher will be the Dean of Dromore, Stephen Lowry. At 8pm this evening in Scotshouse, Co. Monaghan, Dr Alicia St Leger, who has been involved with the Titanic experiences in Belfast and Cobh, will speak on ‘The Story of the Titanic’. The talk will be held in Currin parish church where there is a memorial plaque to Ernest Waldron King who was one of the many Titanic victims.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the Archbishop of Dublin will preach at a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the bicentenary of St Cronan’s church, Roscrea.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cork will preside at a Service of Thanksgiving at Kingston College, Mitchelstown, marking 250 years of the Kingston Charity Trust. Newly restored bells will be dedicated and a memorial plague unveiled. Kingston College provides accommodation for retired Church of Ireland clergy.
John Stocks Powell, former Librarian of York Minister and a frequent write on Portarlington and Huguenot matters, is preparing a new publication – ‘Portarlington 1800–1850’ including the combined parish registers of Portarlingon, Lea and Ballykean, together with the 1847 subscription list of the English Church, Coolbanager and Lea. Those who wish to subscribe for this volume (€25/£22) may contact Mr Powell at 28 Rawcliffe Drive, York, YO30 6PE or [email protected]
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’