Incase You Missed It...

If you chose to go to something organised by the Ulster-Scots or BannerNI instead of Dromore last Friday Night, Dr.Collin's talk is now available to download from the church website. The related guest service is also available.

Suicide- The Signs to Watch For, The Hope to Find
Dr. Andrew Collins

Hope in a Hopeless World
Rev.David McCullough

What a Weekend!

Ever wish that you could be in more than one place at once?

Suicide -The Signs to Watch For - The Hope to Find
Friday 18th April
7:30pm
Dr Andrew Collins
Venue: Dromore Reformed Presbyterian Church



Who are the Covenanters? - From the Killing times to the 21st Century
Friday 18th April
7.30pm
Includes Presentation by Professor E.Donnelly
Venue: Trinity Reformed Presbyterian Church, Newtonabbey



BNI Conference - Take my life and let it be...
Friday 18th April
Liam Goligher (Duke Street, Richmond)
John Woodside (Drogheda Presbyterian Church)
Venue: Stranmillis College, Belfast Register Online



Hope in a Hopeless World
Sunday 20th April
7pm
Rev. David McCullough
Venue: Dromore Reformed Presbyterian Church

Extra Day and Other News

This Friday will be the 29th February. Do something useful with your extra day this year.




Leading Christian lawyers will be speaking at this meeting due to take place on Friday and will be held at Trinity RPC, 8:00pm- 10:00pm.

Other News

Dromore RPC's church website has been redone by Dromore's Short Term Service Worker , Stephen Steele. Sermons are available to download and listen. Click here to check it out.

There will be leaflet distribution in Enniskillen on Saturday 8th March. Volunteers welcome.

Prayer Request: The Year 13 Bible Study starts up again tomorrow in School. Pray that we will all learn more as we study Daniel and that God will use it to equip the Christians in Friends School Lisburn to be better witnesses for him through it.

EP Volleyball Competition

Aside from the EP Weekend, this is one of the highlights of the Eastern Presbytery's year. (that one was just for you Peter!)

11 Teams entered B.R.A Sports Hall for what was sure to be another tightly fought contest.........................where either Dromore, Ards or Trinity would probably win it as has been the pattern in recent years.

Any ways, you know how it works, 3 groups, winners go to Semi's and then a Final. I suppose I should give a mention to Dromore who reached the semi's because James would most likely rip my head off if I didn't!

It was a great final, Ards vs. (Surprise of the Tournament) Ballyclare, I dont need to describe much, just that Mark spiked the ball into one unfortunate mans face and that pretty much set the tone for the final! So ends another Volleyball Competition, Lisburn will have to get a few more practises in for next year, and maybe a few tactical signings.............

Praise God for these great times we have to have fellowship as young people in the church. Also a big shout out to Dromore who have now got Elders, fantastic to see God's growth at work there.

Finally, a big shout out to Hannah Drennan, who was the real winner of the Volleyball Competition with "Nerd of the Year". She actually brought a French Revision file to the event........nuff said............

Claire prepares for a slam as Dromore defeat Lisburn

Harry on how many times taller James McCavery is than him

"Trinity Legends" in action

The traditional half-time activity

2008 Champions in Action (Bun Spot!)

Highlights of 2007

Sorry that I haven't been as active on the blog recently folks and that you've had to endure the dulcid tones of my colleague for so long but with silly coursework and other things its been a little hectic these past weeks.

But any way, as 2007 draws to a close James and I decided to write a post reflecting on the events of the past year and attempting to rank the experiences.

James' Top Ten Events

1. Cloughmills Go Team- August 5th-11th


2. Snow Patrol Concert, Ward Park, Bangor- Serptember 1st


3. Dromore Go Team- August 11th-17th


4. Family Holiday, Cornwall- July 7th-18th


5. EP Weekend- October 26th-28th


6. CY Summer Conference (including the 10 mile walk from Benone to Coleraine with Andy Mo)- August 25th


7. Sommerville New Year's Party (A day late!)- January 1st/2nd


8. Senior Camp- June 30th- July 7th


9. CY Outing- June 23rd


10. CY Spring Conference (including Caravelle Road Trip)- March 17th

Ali's Top Ten Events

1. Snow Patrol at Ward Park, was immense day complete with Winston
2. My Cricket Season in general, which includes getting 24 Wickets and making debut for School Cricket 1sts in McCullough Cup Final.
3. Family Holiday to the wilds of Galway, peace and serenity for 2 Weeks plus great weather.
4. The Road Trip to the CY Spring Conference, even with 2 Americans in the car it was brilliant bant.
5. Becoming an official member of Lisburn RPC. Woo!
6. Boys Adventure Camp-Being the oldest was brilliant plus book of Daniel is exceptional
7. Getting to know Brian Wright.........enough said............
8. Deleting my Bebo...I'd like to say I have a lot more free time now but........
9. Watching India play South Africa at Stormont, brilliant players every where!
10. Beating James' Rugby Team 41-0.... Hehehehe

Well thats it folks, feel free to comment on our lists, 2007 has been a special one and hope you all have a great new year (DV).

We'll be celebrating the New Year in style as usual, i'll be attending the homeland for the New Year Bash there and James will be..........tucked up in bed......... :D

Ali

Download Freemasonary Uncovered

Click on the link to download the public meeting Freemasonary Uncovered.
Speaker Rev.David McCullough.
Venue Dromore RP Church.
Enjoy.

Freemasonary Uncovered

Eastern Presbytery Weekend 2007

Carlsberg don't do Eastern Presbytery Weekends but even if they did they couldn't have beaten this one. For me the Eastern Presbytery Weekend is always one of the highlights of the year and this year was probably the best yet. The weekend ran on the traditional format, wisely not changing a winning formula, possibly a lesson for Nigel Worthington or maybe the IFA should have appointed Peter Loughridge as manager after Lawrie's departure!

Anyway leaving serious Nige-bashing safely in the hands of AWS, the speaker for the weekend was the recent RP signing of Rev.Andrew Kerr of Knockbraken RPC. Gareth Kerr (no relation) intensified the pressure on Rev.Kerr's shoulders by pointing out this was Andrew's debut at an RP young people's event but he stepped up to the plate and delivered a quality weekend's worth of talks on the topic "The Christian Anatomy". Lessons were drawn from various body parts mentioned in Scripture and reminded us of the illustrations God has given us showing his care for us and how we are to serve him. His use of powerpoint however was described as being a little too "Presbyterian" by a member of Lisburn.

Tom pondering on the talks

Friday night's games were organised by Carrick CY. The highlight of which had to be my introduction to "Whoosh ball" a game set to take the world by storm. Rumours abound that it may even become part of the London 2012 Olympics. Sleep came in the early hours of Saturday morning after much "bant" and a tube of Jaffacakes. Saturday afternoon's activities consisted of football in Kilraughts car park and some girls stuff, henceforth abbreviated to "guff", in the church hall. No pictures of football are available as no-one with a camera ventured outside into the sub-zero condtions.

Uni-hoc

More of the women's game



Volleyball- Tom in action

On Saturday evening Lorna and Ali organised the activity. A game called Conclusions in which we had to act out the final scene of a well-known movie in groups. Absolutely hilarious though the judges did have a bit of a 'mare in their scoring of the acting. How could anything have beaten Ice Age in which Rob admitted he's ginger, Champion the Wonderhorse saved the day and Gregg (our hero) Somerville had a starring role as a mammoth? Rumour has it there are video of some of the acts which I'll try to get my hands on.

The new and improved Napolen Dynamite


On Sabbath we return to Kilraughts for worship during which Ali was left very confused by DF's children's address and afterwards we enjoyed a great lunch thanks to the ladies of Kilraughts. Also saw Debbie P for the first time since the legendary Cloughmills Go Team. There were only two flaws in the whole weekend which meant it wasn't quite perfect. Firstly Tom "the Muppet" Sommerville managed to forget the clocks went back and woke our room at 7:15! What an eejit! I only realised after having got up and showered! Also I'm sorry to say that salad was offered as an option on Saturday for lunch. Don't make friends with salad!

Some extra pics

Bex, Claire and the self-confessed Ginger

Calvin taking a photo of his own shoulder

The party bus!

Aaron, Abi, Tom, Harry and Ali

Rufus and Elvis

Sunday 7:15am not 8:15 Tom!

Final Call!

Last call for the "Ministering for the Master" conference this Saturday. Don't think you are too young or too old for the conference. I'm especially looking forward to seeing what other young people are going to be there. It will reveal which RP boys only attend RP events to see girls! If you are going you need to register by contacting Rev. David McCullough.

Other News
A post on possibly the best EP weekend ever is in the pipeline. I don't want to do the weekend a disservice by rushing a post on it! If you've got any pictures of the weekend you want to donate please email them to us.

Freemasonry and the RTC

This post is not inventing some scandal linking Freemasonry and the Reformed Theological College but rather is about two events in the near future. I suppose I could have entitled it "Dates for your Diary" but that would have less imaginative than a certain Irish international rugby coach.


"Freemasonry Uncovered"


A meeting uncovering the truth about Freemasonary.

Dromore Reformed Presbyterian Church

Friday 19th October 7.30pm

A latin saying of the Freemasons is "Aude Vide Tace". This means "Hear, see and be silent". As a church we want people to hear and see Freemasonry for what it really is and we don't want to be silent on it.

"Ministering for the Master"

The church needs more ministers, if people are to be pastored, new
congregations established and the lost reached with the gospel.

But what is the work of the ministry?

How can you know if God is calling you to it?

This conference will be answering these questions.

Date: Saturday 3rd November Time: 10.00 am - 3.00 pm

Content: Seminars, Interviews, Discussion

Registrar: Rev David McCullough (Tel 028 92690155)

Registration Fee: £5 - payable at event contributes towards lunch, book and information leaflet on RTC

Please register soon if you plan to go

This conference is not some sort of College open day nor if you go will you be forced to sign up for the next intake of students! Neither is it restricted to any age range. This is a conference which all men young and old (Moses wasn't called till he was 80!) should attend as we have a duty to consider how God wants us to serve him and how to help and understand our ministers better.