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Irish news – 18th August

Back to Church Sunday; Back to Church Sunday; Heritage Week Events in Adare

Back to Church Sunday is fast approaching.
BTCC is now the largest single local–church invitational initiative in the world, taking place in churches across denominations worldwide.

Seeking to unlock the potential in personal invitation, it’s an opportunity to act together each year and take the simplest and shortest step in evangelism; inviting someone we already know to your church.

Back to Church Sunday has, and continues to have, a significant impact. Not only does it see tens of thousands of people come back to church on one Sunday in September, but it also sees many becoming regular attenders and active members of their local churches. Several churches in our own diocese have benefited.

Please register your church and order your materials by 31 August so that you can participate on 30 September.

Once registered, you will be sent a confirmation email with full details about how to order your invitation packs. The deadline for ordering is 31 August and packs are priced at just £10 (plus £1.45 P&P).

Click here to register for Back to Church Sunday 2012:
http://www.backtochurch.co.uk/taking-part

T–Shirts and refreshment packs are also available this year. Click here to download the full resources brochure to find out more:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5030744/BTCS/Back%20to%20Church%20Leaflet%202012.pdf

Heritage Week Events in Adare
You are invited to celebrate this year’s Heritage week event in ” Adare Village”, at the Augustinian Priory, St. Nicholas Church, on Friday 24th August 2012 at 7.15 PM. The event will include organ music by Claire Bradley, and an informal historical briefing and walkabout of this ancient and monastic complex (circa 1316), to be provided by local historian Barbara Bingham, MA.

So whether you are a local resident, a visitor, or someone who drives past this exceptional heritage building on a daily basis, and you would like to know more about its past history, then join us for this interesting evening, which will be followed by light refreshments. St Nicholas Church is open every day, so please feel welcome to visit, meditate or worship in this Church. Entry to this event is free!

St Nicholas Church wishes to acknowledge the on-going help, support and financial assistance of the Heritage Council, for the conservation and protection of this important historical complex. For more details about National Heritage Week see www.heritageweek.ie