New Digital Dimension to St Patrick’s Tour; Crosslinks Ireland appointment; Junior BB raises £10k for Romania; Institution of Rector of Taney; Church Army Appointment; Vacancy – Parish of Dalkey
New Digital Dimension to St Patrick’s Tour
On August 20 St Patrick’s Cathedral is launching a new digital exhibition called Tales from our Timeline. This exhibition tells stories from the cathedral’s life and history and will include videos, pictures and text. All of this new content is available on the Cathedral’s website and will also be accessible to visitors within the building itself. The Cathedral has embraced new technology to provide more information without compromising the visitors’ experience and enjoyment of the structure and fabric of the building.
Andrew Staunton–Smith, Education Officer for the Cathedral explains: “We want our visitors to engage fully with the building and its history, but we didn’t want simply to put up more large panels of text which would spoil the natural beauty of the space. We decided to create the new videos, text and graphics on our website enabling visitors to use smartphone technology to scan barcodes (called QR codes) around the building which link to the relevant areas on the site.” The new material can also be explored directly through the website www.stpatrickscathedral.ie.
Crosslinks Ireland appointment
Crosslinks has announced the appointment of a new staff worker for Ireland who is also a parishioner in the Diocese of Dromore.
Colin Morris is married to Jenna and they live in Kilkeel, Co Down, where they are active members of the parish of Christ Church. Colin is originally from Moira and was a student at Union Theological College, Belfast. He was youth worker in Donaghcloney parish and in West Presbyterian Church, Ballymena and has led various short–term mission teams throughout Ireland and in Eastern Europe.
Colin will join the Crosslinks team in September 2012 where he will be encouraging and enabling churches and individuals to engage in God’s worldwide mission. He will help to coordinate short–term teams, speak in churches and other meetings and contribute to the building up of a new generation of gospel workers.
Junior BB raises £10k for Romania
Newsletter – Boys’ Brigade companies associated to Presbyterian congregations in Northern Ireland have raised £10,000 to support a children’s project in Romania.
Step by Step is a children’s education programme based near Cluj in north-west Romania and last week one of the project workers, Ilona Veres, was in Belfast to receive a cheque from some of the BB boys and their officers who had helped raise the money.
Ms Veres has been living in Romania for 20 years where she has been working alongside the Hungarian Reformed Church as part of its mission partnership arrangement with the Presbyterian Church and in recent years has been assisting in a variety of youth projects in Cluj.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/community/churches/junior-bb-raises-10k-for-romania-1-4164321
Institution of Rector of Taney
The institution of the Venerable Robert Warren as the new rector of Taney will take place on Saturday September 15 in Christ Church, Taney, at 2.30 pm. He is currently Archdeacon of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe in the Diocese of Limerick and is Rector of the Tralee union. Robert is married to Vera and they have two grown–up children, John, an airline pilot and Sarah, a primary school teacher.
Church Army Appointment
Sunday 29th July marked a new beginning in the life of St. Saviour’s, Craigavon, (Down & Dromore) as Capt. Matthew Rowley was appointed Church Army Pioneer Evangelist for the parish of Craigavon.
Matt Rowley, who originally comes from Stoke on Trent, was commissioned in Sheffield by Church Army in July 2012 after four years of mission based training.
Matt’s new and exciting role will include community outreach and ministry to young families in the area. Matt has already planned a Summer Party event for young families on Saturday afternoon 18 August with food, fun and games for the whole family in St. Saviour’s.
Church Army has over 300 Evangelists in a variety of situations across the UK and Ireland.
Vacancy in the Parish of Dalkey
This south Dublin parish is now vacant.
Parish website: www.dalkey.dublin.anglican.org
The rectory, situated close the church, is in good repair and of a high standard.
To apply for this position and obtain a Parish Profile, please write to: The Archbishop of Dublin’s Personal Assistant, The See House, 17 Temple Road, Milltown, Dublin 6
Email: archbishop@dublin.anglican.org
The Board of Nomination will not meet before 24th September 2012