www.coaching4christ.co.uk September 2013 brings a new chapter to our continuing partnership with coaching 4 Christ. Our third annual Football Fun Week back in June was a successful and hugely encouraging week where over 100 boys and girls from p3-7 received engaging, high quality coaching. Whilst football is clearly a strong draw the focal point and...
The new look prayer letter! What a way to launch this new project. What an amazing day yesterday was. I am so encouraged by the response to our CAP Sunday. Remember to pray for Mary as she seeks to grow in her faith. And all the other clients who have recommitted their lives to Christ....
It was a packed company of members and adherents of Ballymena Baptist Church, who, along with many friends from all over the province, gathered for the evening service to give thanks for and celebrate the ministry of Freddie and Linda McClaughlin over nearly forty years, and also to mark the end of Freddie’s time as...
Our own Ad am McCready is the new E3 worker for the North Coast and has started a period of induction before starting full time in the area in October. Pease p ray for him and the pupils and teachers he comes in contact with on a daily basis. But what is the “E3 Schools Project” anyway?...
“Have you noticed that everything in your life wears out? The sweater that you loved so much and wore winter after winter is now stuffed in the bottom drawer of your dresser, threadbare, unused, and unwanted. The car that excited you so and that even smelled new is now just a car with scratches and...
Call me a cynic, but I wasn’t impressed when I first saw Coca-Cola’s new advertising campaign. ‘Share a Coke with a friend’? Who would want to share a Coke? Surely this was going to backfire hugely. Instead it has been incredibly successful. Partly because I was right: people don’t share a Coke with their friend,...
Our Table Quiz and Meal has now become a much anticipated annual event! It started about 7 or 8 years ago when it was used as a fund raising event for the young people’s summer teams and has gone from strength to strength. We have held them in the Sixth Form Centre at Ballymena Academy,...
There is an area of the gym I don’t venture into all that often; the heavy weights area for the wannabe bodybuilders! Large muscle sculptured physiques covered in tattoos, lifing twice their body weight…and that’s just the females!! Don’t get me wrong, I can lift weights…I can comfortably bench press a weight that any teenage...
Magpies. That’s what we are. We find ourselves perpetually pulled towards the shiny bright things in life. Yet, instead of collecting foil wrappers to tuck away in our nests, we’re drawn to the dazzling displays of any nearby screen. It’s understandable, perhaps. Bright spots, whether bonfires or twinkly stars in the night sky, have always...
“It was a wintry Tuesday night. I was counselling all day and had taught for three hours in the evening. I was driving home about ten o’clock, dreaming about an hour or so of relaxation before I hit the bed. I silently hoped that for some inexplicable reason, the whole family had gone to sleep...
