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Enniskillen Cathedral Fall CHURCH OF IRELAND The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion February 2014 | £1 ComissioningComissioning ofof DiocesanDiocesan PastoralPastoral AssistantsAssistants Consecration of Diocesan Advent Carol Service in Clogher Cathedral Bishop Pat Storey www.clogher.anglican.org Gardening Services NO JOB TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL. For all your gardening needs. • Power Washing • Hedge Cutting We do a wide range of jobs at • Timber Cutting • Sheds Cleaned reasonable prices. • Logs Split • Fences and Walls painted Contact Noel on: 028 89 521736 or Mobile 07796 640514 A. S. Oil Boiler and ARMSTRONG Cooker Services Funeral Directors & Memorials • Servicing, Commissioning, Repair & Installation of Oil Fired Boilers / Cookers (All models) • A dignifed and personal 24hr service • Out of Office and 24 Emergency Service can be provided • Offering a caring and professional service • An efficient and effective service using latest technology • Memorials supplied and erected • A timely reminder sent out when your next service is • Large selection of headstones, vases open books due (12 months). • Open books & chipping’s • All harmful fumes eliminated i.e. Carbon monoxide • Also cleaning and renovations (Computer printout given.) to existing memorials • Fires / chimneys cleaned and repaired • Additional lettering • Special offers on all church properties • Qualified OFTEC Te c h n i c i a n 101, 102, 105 & 600A Dromore Tel. • Also, small plumbing jobs carried out 028 8289 8424 We also specialise in making remote oil storage Omagh Tel. tanks vandal proof, which can also provide 028 8224 0803 secondary containment for a tank that is not Robert Mob. bundled (therefore very often not covered by 077 9870 0793 insurance in the event of a spillage) Derek Mob. 079 0027 8633 CALL ABRAHAM STOREY Tel: (44) 02889521060 35 Kildrum Rd, Dromore, Mob: (44) 07713357156 Co. Tyrone, BT78 3AS In Autumn 2014 Kindfund will celebrate 10 years of work and witness in Northern Kenya! As part of that celebration we are bringing some children from our children’s homes to reach out to communities in the UK and Ireland. Some will share their life stories, others will participate through drama. And the children will bring the joy, enthusiasm and movement which is characteristic of Kenyan Christian worship. If you have a heart to help in any way please email [email protected] IAN MCELROY JOINERY Tel: 07779792734 For all your joinery, carpentry, roofng and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 Keep up to date at kindfund.com/outreach NO JOB TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL. www.clogher.anglican.org CoNtENtS Fences and Walls painted NotE FroM thE BIShoP 4 - 6 MothErS’ uNIoN NEwS 12 ANGlICAN CoMMuNIoN NEwS 6 - 7 youth NEwS 13 - 14 ChurCh oF IrElAND NEwS 8 - 9 ChIlDrENS SECtIoN 14 - 16 DIoCESAN NEwS 10 CoMMuNIty NEwS 17 - 19 DAtES For your DIAry 11 - 12 PArISh NotES 19 - 56 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly Clogher Magazine Committee except January and August. It is usually available from Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn Parish Churches and other selected outlets by the frst Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £10/€11. Secretary: Mrs Prue Mahood Postal Subscription £20/€22. treasurer: Mrs Mabel Black The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston books Views expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors and Mrs Jean Stinson. and not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Packing team: Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs Diocese of Clogher nor the Church of Ireland. Barbara Ingram, Mrs Sadie Kane, Mrs Joyce Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Lynn, Mrs Maureen Robinson, The Magazine Committee reserves the right to Mrs Jean Stinson and Mr Andy Wray. decline any material without assigning a reason. No correspondence can be entered into regarding non- Diocesan offce: publication of material or advertisements. Names and addresses of contributors must be provided with Diocesan Offce, St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, material submitted and may then be published. The Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7DR Magazine Committee accepts no responsibility for telephone: 028 66 347879 loss, damage or the return of material. Email: [email protected] Advertising rates are available upon request. Next Magazine: Deadline for submission of material If parishes wish to alter the number of magazines 15th February 2014. Content to be sent ordered each month please inform Mrs Barbara Ingram to [email protected] by telephoning 028 66 388306. Front Cover Photos Main Photo: Six newly commissioned Diocesan Pastoral Assistants pictured at their commissioning in Clogher Catherdral on Advent Sunday with Bishop John McDowell and the Revd Captain Issac Hanna, who prepared them. They are Mrs Sue Hogg, Mrs Joan Nelson, Mrs Ann Irwin, Mr Roy Crowe, Miss Isobel Stewart and Mrs Irene Boyd. Bottom left: Bishop John McDowell, Bishop Pat Storey, Bishop Ken Good and Archbishop Michael Jackson pictured at the consecration of Bishop Storey In Autumn 2014 Kindfund will celebrate 10 years of in Christ Church Catherdral Dublin. work and witness in Northern Kenya! As part of that celebration we are bringing some children from our children’s homes to reach out to communities in the Bottom right: Mr Nathan Barrett, Organist and UK and Ireland. Some will share their life stories, others Director of Music of Rossorry Parish, conducting some will participate through drama. And the children will bring the joy, enthusiasm and movement which is members of Enniskillen Catherdral Choir and Rossorry Parish Choir at the Diocesan Advent Carol Service in Gail Campbell, left, and Christine Baxter, from the St. Clogher Catherdral. John’s, Fivemiletown, Company of the Church lads’ and [email protected] Church Girls’ Brigade are pictured with the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most reverend Dr richard Clarke, and Commanding offcer, Melvyn lockhart, at the Brigade’s Annual Dinner at Brownlow house in lurgan. 3 The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE A NotE FroM thE BIShoP One of the more the rt revd John McDowell bewildering features of February 2014 February The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, television discussions these days is the need Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP which everyone feels tel: 028 895 22461 to introduce a lot of Email: [email protected] statistics no matter what is being discussed. I was that they might yield but I want to make a few general never particularly good remarks to put the fgures in a wider context. at maths at school (to The frst is that size isn’t everything. There are some put it mildly) and I have very small Church of Ireland communities where a always found it diffcult very high percentage of the population are very faithful to have to take in reams in church attendance and in providing a witness in the of statistics about the communities where they live. Equally there are places state of the economy, where we are numerically very strong but where or the health service attendance is not so good and where our vocation as or rugby matches or witness to the resurrection life is not good. We need whatever is under discussion. to learn the lessons of these examples and not to shy It was probably Mark Twain (who else) who said “there away from them. Not least we can learn that a small are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”, number of people committed to being examples of the although he was careful to attribute it to a dead love of God in their community will have an infuence politician - Benjamin Disraeli. far beyond their number. Probably it all has to do with “evidence based” decision Of course deep beneath the attendance fgures lie making. So, like it or not, statistics can be helpful as living, believing and praying people. Our people: you being one way of considering how we should plan for and me. And statistics shouldn’t be allowed to draw our the future. In my view it is not the only way, and there attention away from the fact that we are surrounded by are all sorts of other considerations which need to be people who have a spiritual (indeed and an eternal) taken into consideration, especially where the church aspect to their lives which is often tender and always is concerned. sacred. Nevertheless, it was for the practical reason of simply As our horizons have expanded through the fndings trying to get some sort of accurate picture of the of science and the use of technology, there is always numbers of people attending church on an average the danger that we will, consciously or unconsciously, Sunday that the recent census was conducted across assume that we are not signifcant to God as individuals. every parish in the Church of Ireland. In a cosmos of hundreds of thousands of galaxies most Strange as it may seem, until then, if I had been asked of which are bigger than our own, what difference the question “Roughly how many people go to church does it make if I believe or live out my beliefs. every Sunday in the Diocese of Clogher” I would not In a world that is so complexly inter-related that a have been able to give an answer with any degree of trader over-confdently selling a particular type of confdence. Now I can say “about four thousand”. mortgage in New York can cause the collapse of half a I’m not quite sure if that number seems big or small to dozen European economies, what does it really matter you. I suppose it depends on what the overall Church how I behave? of Ireland population of the Diocese is (I think about Even at a personal level where we now know that we 16,000), which would mean that not much over a inherit many characteristics and tendencies both in quarter of those claiming to be Church of Ireland are health and temperament more or less from the moment in church on Sunday.
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