National Day of Commemoration, Internet – wee buns in Derry, New Methodist Minister gets C of I welcome
National Day of Commemoration
The Archbishop of Dublin represented the Churh of Ireland at the National Commemoration on Sunday 10th July .
In Limerick, the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, Rt Rev Trevor Williams took part in an Interfaith service which was the centre-piece of Limerick City’s part in the National Day of Commemoration. Cllr Jim Long (Mayor of Limerick) laid a wreath at the city’s first act of Commemoration “in honour of all those Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations”.
On the platform were the Deputy City Manager, Yonit Lea Kosovske (Representative of the Jewish Community), The Very Reverend Tony Mullins (Roman Catholic Diocesan Administrator of Limerick) The Reverend Geoffrey Hewitt (United Presbyterian and Methodist Church, Limerick) The Right Reverend Trevor Williams (Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe) and Abdullah Yaveebo (Representative of the Islamic Community).
Internet – wee buns in Derry
To help finance the setting up of a Parish Internet Website and for improvements to the church amplification system the Macosquin Parish , Derry diocese, arranged to sell a range of home baking produce over last week-end. Last year the “silver surfers”from throughout the community completed courses in the parish hall arranged in conjunction with adult learning facilities in the region.
New Methodist Minister gets C of I welcome
The Rev. Elizabeth Hewitt was officially welcomed as the minister of the Methodist Church’s Adare and Ballingrane Circuit on Friday 8th July.
The Methodist community was joined by members of the local Church of Ireland communities, including Rev. Dr. Keith Scott, in charge of Rathkeale and Kilnaughtin and Rev. Stan Evans who has care of Adare and Kilmallock and The Right Reverend Trevor Williams, Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe. Bishop Trevor is a long time friend of Rev. Elizabeth, having worked with her for many years in the Irish Council of Churches and the Corrymeela Community.
The service was set in the historic Ballingrane Methodist Church, dedicated to the memory of Barbara Ruttle Heck and Philip Embury, who journeyed from the Ballingrane area to North America in the 18th century towork amongst the founders of Methodism in what was just becoming a new independent republic. The service was conducted by the Rev. Brain Griffin, the District Superintendent of the Midlands and Southern District.
There will be another newcomer to Adare when the Rev. Gary Paulsen is instituted on 30th July.