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Church 21 Follow-up Day
CHURCH 21 PARISH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
CHURCH 21 FOLLOW-UP DAY
Venue: Isaacs Hotel, Dublin
Date: 15 September 2007
Time: 10.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
A new contemporary-styled church notice-board, a team of people to welcome newcomers into the community, an experimental worship service led almost entirely by young adults – these are typical of the kind of things that have been happening over the past year in parishes taking part in the Church 21 Parish Development Programme.
On 15 September representatives from the 34 parishes will come together at Isaacs Hotel, Dublin, for a Follow-up Day. The focus will be on listening, encouraging and sharing ideas and experiences. The Day will include addresses by members of the Working Group on aspects of parish development, drama, illustrated reports from the parishes and those who have been facilitating them and discussion times, all interspersed with periods of reflective worship.
The Revd Paul Hoey, Chairman of the Church 21 Working Group, says, “We are encouraged not just by the range of things that are happening but above all by what churches have been discovering about their role in God’s world. Parishes have found resources in themselves, in the Holy Spirit and a joy and energy that comes from working in partnership with God and with one another.”
Taking into account feedback on the Day the Working Group will look at ways to enable more parishes to share together in the journey of development.
For further information please contact:
Revd Paul Hoey
Tel: 028 6632 9655
Mob: 07712 873322
Church of Ireland
Church of Ireland House
61-67 Donegall Street
Belfast BT1 2QH
Tel: (028) 9023 2909
Fax (028) 9032 3554