CIMS held its Annual Service in Ballymore Parish on Advent Sunday, 27 November 2011. The transcript of the address by The Most Revd Alan Harper is provided. He said: ’A ministry of compassion and a striving for fairness and kindness is a daily and sustained requirement of all of us.’
Up to fifty volunteer youth workers from across the Diocese of Derry & Raphoe have just come together for a special Training residential, giving practical skills in planning programmes for young people.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod met on Tuesday 22 November 2011.
Canon Paul Willoughby, the Church of Ireland Rector of Kilmocomogue Union of Parishes, covering Bantry, Durrus and Castletownbere, has recently produced a booklet called ‘Presence and Presents. The real meaning of Christmas’.