Inform Sept 19.qxp_Layout 1 26/09/2019 14:21 Page 1 NEWSLETTER September 2019 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY BCM WEEKENDS Issue No.13 BIBLE CLUBS City Teens PRAYER 4 - 6 October 2019 Stoneyford is recommencing on Friday 11th October MEETINGS City Kids BCM Northern Ireland 25 - 27 October 2019 6.30-7.30pm in a new venue – Are you excited about how St John’s Parish Church Hall. God has worked in young Junior Teens people’s lives over the 6 - 8 December 2019 inform Ballygowan Mission Hall (Dromore Co. Down) is summer ...do you want to Senior Teens starting up again on Sunday see more of this? 30 Dec - 1 Jan 2020 INTRODUCING NEW 29th Sept from 3-4pm. Kids & Merge Join us on the FIRST 24 - 26 January 2020 CandY kicks off on Friday INTERNS 2019/20 TUESDAY EACH MONTH 4th October 6.30-7.45pm WOMEN’S WEEKEND in the BCM Centre. 8.00-9.00pm 24 - 26 April 2020 in the BCM Centre, open to all women. Markets Surestart Centre Seymour Street Lisburn. Watch the web for info will host a Christmas Bible Club and booking forms. in November and December All welcome and on Thursdays 6.00-7.00pm. SPORTS HALL FUND Wow! What all needed! We thank God for your gifts that enable the monthly loan a summer! payments of £743 to be LLARTOWN U HO Shout it from the mountain tops As I’ve started finding M U M S C E made. The loan to be repaid B Jesus came to save us my feet in my new role now stands at £48,000. and His saving never stops over the past couple of DISCIPLESHIP Emily Kane Nathanael McIlveen Jonny Dodds months I have been so Did you have fun this summer at Mullartown? GROUPS Magherally Presbyterian Emmanuel Baptist Glengormley Baptist encouraged to see Do you wish to meet up with your Summer Banbridge Lisburn Newtownabbey how God has been Camp Leaders throughout the year? DEEPER - YEARS 10-12 working through First Saturday of the month Moun tain Do you want to learn more about God? The interns will be helping with the daily tasks that need to be done camps, Hello Life 7.30-9.30pm in Sloan Street Top >>> Well now you can!!! around Mullartown as well as with school assemblies, the Bubbles teams and Bible Clubs Presbyterian Church Hall. FOLLOW UP and Oaks Discipleship groups, and more! This will be a time of over the summer, and Starts Saturday 12th October in OAKS - BOYS YEARS 8+ personal development in their walk with God and in learning and also privileged to play Annalong Presbyterian Church Hall Mondays 8.30-9.30pm a part in some of these 7.00 - 8.30pm practising new skills. Please pray for them and for Jason and Gemma and Saturday 26th October in Mullartown House, Annalong as they work together. We will hear from them in the next newsletter. ministries. Now it’s time to get stuck into Bible Lessons Lisburn Baptist Church , Longstone Street BUBBLES: GIRLS YEARS 8+ Quiz - Songs my CEO “to-do” list; I and happens every month Mullartown House, Annalong Kati Rose returned to the USA in early Memory Verses would appreciate Check www.bcmni.org/mountaintop Wednesdays 7.30-9.00pm September. She said “ the year of internship Fun & Games Fridays 3.30-5.30pm prayer for wisdom and for more information was amazing. God stretched me in so many direction in the ways and, while it was hard, I feel like I have coming weeks, and learned so much and done things I never that God would open BCM Centre 41 Seymour Street, Lisburn BT27 4SY thought I would have done. I loved new doors for the T: 028 9260 3864 E: [email protected] Web: www.bcmni.org working at camps, leading in Bubbles and Gospel. Thank you for working with all the youth and everyone. your partnership with Mullartown Camp & Conference Centre us. 159 Glassdrumman Road, Annalong BT34 4QL I’m going to miss my second home so T: 028 4376 8217 E: [email protected] much but praise God for the year I had INTERNATIONAL there!.” Judith Rogers NORTHERN IRELAND BCM International NI is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Northern Ireland NI 639093 CEO Registered with The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland NIC 105856 Inform Sept 19.qxp_Layout 1 26/09/2019 14:21 Page 2 We want to say a huge THANK YOU to four of our Programme SUMMER OUTREACH CAMP AT MULLARTOWN Directors for whom this was their last year at Mullartown! In Summer 2019 we had 8 full fun packed weeks including 4 Kids Camps, a family camp, Merge Camp for 11-13 year CANDY 3-DAY CLUBS COREY and BECKY WATSON olds, Junior Teens and Senior Teens. – Junior Teens IN LISBURN We had 610 campers, 201 leaders and 72 cooks, dish staff, This year was our 6th and final year table setters and maintence (who are all very important.) The pl an was two teams in Hillhall and Whitla on of being programme directors of In total 882 attended camp. Tuesday and Wednesday and then meeting Junior Teens. It has been the most During the summer Mullartown was transported to altogether in the BCM Centre on Thursday. amazing, challenging and fun 6 Disneyland, Shrek, a Go Kart race track, World War II, a So, on Tuesday night we went to Hillhall, armed years, and God has taught us and Carnival, Superheroes and back to the 70’s all in theme days with lesson visuals, memory verse, a football and shown us so much. We just want to of course! HELLO LIFE parachute for games and of course the all thank everyone who has Our Kids theme was “the Big Picture” and teens was LISBURN important sweets. Ten children joined us on the supported us and joined with us in The team, easily recognisable in their pale pink “LIFE:” both looking at the gospel of John, focusing in on mat with more playing football round about. A the Junior Teens ministry, it's been hoodies, held 3-day clubs in local housing estates, some of the key life changing encounters average people had few boys kept us on our toes, but all-in-all it was a a blast! had a Fun Day, and did outreach at the Tweflth field. great first night, and the kids were enthusiastic with Jesus adn then looking at what we can learn from these. Other highlights were a special Bible Club in How Jesus can - reunite us back to God; transform us and about coming back. At Whitla, just one girl DONNA NEILL Ballymacash Community Centre and a visit to a care commands us to go and tell others: and how Jesus cares and appeared – an ever wee faithful CandY member! – Kids Camp home for elderly people. We estimate that the team is capable of all things including restoring the world. However, another two kids came at the end with As I handover leading Week 2 to had the opportunity to share the good news about In the Missionary Stories we looked at the Burnham Family their mum and were keen to come back the the great Claire Martin, I am Jesus with approximately 1000 people, either orally who served with New Tribes mission in the Philippines and following evening. For our Bible lesson we told excited what God will do through or in written form! Let's pray that the seeds planted how their faith was challenged as they were held as hostages the children about Zaccheus, and how Jesus can her leadership, but also a bit sad will bear fruit in the lives of those who were exposed and tragically as the Father Martin was killed, but how the transform lives, if only we will admit our sin and as I step down as I have had 6 to the truth of God's word. Lord has used their story in the lives of countless people. realise our need of Him. amazing years of Week 2 were Throughout the summer we heard of over 40 professions Unfortunately, the good old Northern Irish rain there has always been madness, of faith and a number of re-commitements which is amazing meant that we had to cancel our 2nd night of laughter and also a few challenges BELFAST and so precious to the work at Mullartown. Over the 5 days it clubs. But this didn’t seem to discourage any kids but throughout it all I have loved Many Christians were encouraged to continue in their was wonderful to from coming to our Fun Night on the Thursday. to be part of a team that who journey and were given teaching to develop a better see the dozen or Fourteen kids came and we had a great evening loved spending time with the relationship with God. so kids at the Ava catching up with some usual CandY faces and campers and excited about We saw many new leaders and returning leaders step up to Street Bible Club introducing what we do at CandY club to some teaching them how much they are their responsibilities and sore with strength - pouring into the bonding with each new kids too. We had face painting, games, juice loved by God. Camp will always lives of kids and young people, which is so encoraging. other and with the team, and even more and biscuits and then what we do at a normal have a special place in my heart Our team of programme directors excelled themselves to encouraging to see their growing enthusiasm for the night of CandY – plenty of singing, a Bible lesson, and you may see me in the kitchen produce an outstanding summer of camps and we would be singing, memory verse and Bible stories.