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...
We invite all ladies to join us on Thursday 16th and 23rd May at 7:30pm for our Fit 4 Life programme. You can walk, join the fitness session or the craft group. We have a guest speaker each evening for a short epilogue and finish with supper. These nights are free and informal! We hope...
Focusfest Women’s Conference was founded in 1993 and has become Northern Ireland’s largest event for Christian women, drawing women of all ages together from different denominations, backgrounds and locations. The desire of Focusfest’s heart is that it will be a tool for equipping and mobilising women of all ages to make a difference in their...
On Thursday 11th April we celebrated our 20th Birthday! It was 20 years ago that we first met, when a gap was identified in the church programme by the late Mrs June McAllister. Thursday Fellowship was started to provide a monthly meeting for more “senior” folk to come along together for a programme followed by lunch. The concept was...
