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CARRIGROHANE UNION OF PARISHESSt Peter’s, Carrigrohane

St Senan’s, InniscarraThe Church of the Resurrection, Blarney

www.carrigrohaneunionofparishes.ie021-4877260

- April 2013

Inside this issue...

• 0VER 90 SHINE IN THE LIGHTHOUSE

• BUSY BUSY – TOO BUSY?

• THE OVERFLOW AND NEW WINE

• HEARING GOD - HEARING EACHOTHER...THE EASTER VESTRY—MORE THANJUST AN AGM !

• BLARNEY UPDATE

• BE PART OF A GUINNESS WORLDRECORD

• NEW WINE – REV JOHN HUGHES “The Church Open to theHoly Spirit” (Please note service changes on Sunday 28th April—9 am St Peter’s Carrigrohane— Holy Communion & 11 am The Church ofthe Resurrection Blarney —as we unite for the last of John Hughes talks)

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Dear Friends,

There is much to share and anticipate this month so grab acup of coffee and read on!

0VER 90 SHINE IN THE LIGHTHOUSE

Robert gives you all the detail in his Blarney update, butit is worth underlining how there are real signs that TheLighthouse is beginning to capture the imagination as analternative way to learn and worship, and thereforeconnect with those we wouldn’t normally see at ourusual Sunday morning services. After a slow start it isgreat to see the perseverance of the team under AprilGunn’s leadership, lead us into a new and excitingministry.

BUSY BUSY – TOO BUSY?The Lighthouse is an example of what Carrigrohane Union does well –reaching out innovatively. Every church in the Union has people of energyand passion and Robert and I are thrilled to minister into this situation, andof course do our fair share of generating ideas! BUT, and note it is a bigbut, there is a real danger we can lose the run of ourselves, or rather God.We run ahead of His plans and purposes. We wear ourselves out in thedoing, instead of loving Him for Himself and enjoying the freedom Hewants to integrate into the whole of our lives. Consequently, we lack thefruit of the Spirit in our personal experience. Our mission as a church lacksthe expectation of God to touch lives and turn them around for theKingdom. In the words of Galatians:“After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish with humaneffort? …Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you byobserving the law, or by believing what you what you heard?” (Galatians 3v 3 & 5)

The law was of course the law of the Jews, but all of us can easily findourselves living by “laws”, ideas and attitudes that spring from within andthe world around us. That is why we are excited to have John Hughes fromNew Wine come and speak to us at the end of April. For John and NewWine represent a call to join in the eventfulness of the Holy Spirit in ourlives. Robert and I ask that, as much as possible, every one of us takes thisopportunity to get along to most if not all of the sessions details of whichyou will find elsewhere in this Newsletter.

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Blarney UpdateNow that the month of April is on the horizon and the clocks havechanged, plans are beginning to come together in Blarney for allsorts of things happening both within and beyond the churchdoors.

• The Parish Website continues to be developed• Blarney Church has its own Facebook page – please do

“like” us.• We are looking at our summer programme in the church especially

tourist friendly info leaflets which will be distributed in May- June.• This the end of this month we are looking forward to welcoming John

Hughes - please do come along if you are free on any of theevenings / Saturday Morning. More details elsewhere.

• Linking up with primary School’s in the Blarney Area.• Continue to Develop our Lighthouse Ministry – April Gunn reports on

March’s Lighthouse :“The Lighthouse Easter celebration - Wow! So much enthusiasm! So manypeople and lots of happy noise and movement around the place! We havejust had our Easter Lighthouse and there were a record 94 people in thechurch, with lots of new and familiar faces. It has been just such a joy to beable to be a part of Lighthouse and seeing the numbers attending it grow.Some of you are probably thinking, so what is this Lighthouse thing allabout. Well Lighthouse is ‘Messy Church’ so as well as having songs, prayers,Bible stories, all of which regularly happen at church services, there are alsolots of different activities through which the Bible story may be explored.This month we did such things as put red paint handprints on the shape of across to show how Jesus died to forgive our sins, fold and cut a piece ofpaper to give lots of different shapes which could be used to tell the story ofGood Friday and also spell out the word ‘Alive’, make a model of the emptytomb, an Easter card to help usshare the ‘Good News’ with othersand ice and decorate biscuits toshare together at refreshmenttime, as well as other games andactivities.The Lighthouse is aimed at familieswith children 3-12 years, with aplay area for younger children.”Why not come and join us at thenext one which takes place onSunday 14th April at 3.30 – 5pm.PDF Creator - PDF4Free v3.0 http://www.pdf4free.com


Parish Contacts:Rector: Canon Ian Jonas – 4871106 email: [email protected]

Associate Minister: Rev Robert Ferris—4516620 email: [email protected] Office: 4877260 (Mon-Fri mornings) email: [email protected]

Youth Workers: Matt Gould: 085 1080067 & Katie Gould: 085 1080030) email: [email protected] website: www.carrigrohaneunionofparishes.ie

We change the answer machine message at the beginning of each week—and include the times of the services for the following Sunday.

NEW WINE CORK- SPRING GATHERING

‘A Church Open to the Holy Spirit’Speaker: Rev John Hughes

Venue for all events: The Church of the Resurrection, Blarney, Co Cork.

Thursday 25th toSunday 28th April 2013

THE PROGRAMME

Worship, Bible Teaching & MinistryThursday 25th & Friday 26th @ 8pm

Worship, Bible Teaching, Seminars & MinistrySaturday 27th from 10am to1pm

Seminars Include:Christians Hurting Christians—led by John HughesGuiding those hurt by the Church & Christians to

a path of Wholeness & Healing.+ Spiritual Gifts + Mission

Sunday 28th 11amHe’s Alive. He is Risen! - Celebration Service for All.

NB There will be a 9am Holy Communion St Peter’s Carrigrohane.(These are the only 2 services in the parish this on 28th April)


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THE OVERFLOW AND NEW WINEPersonally New Wine has been a voice calling me to keep drinking fromthe Spirit and in 2008 at the annual Sligo conference John Hughes gavethe daily Bible readings. God got to work that week and combined withthe sabbatical I took, the summer of 2008 was a time of completerenewal – in body, mind and spirit. The upshot has been I default tobelief instead of doubt and enjoy my ministry more than ever, all ofwhich I thank God for while still of course aware of my failings! Which initself is a huge part of this deepened experience – that we don’t have tohave everything worked out. It is a ministry of grace to let Him workthrough us for a busyness that springs from the overflow of His power atwork in us.

With nearly a hundred people from Corkgoing to the New Wine conference in Sligolast summer, John’s visit is open to everyonefrom any and every church to consider whatit means today to be ‘A Church Open to theHoly Spirit’. As a sign of the unity of theSpirit we are sharing the leading of theworship and seminars with members of CorkGrace Church who use the Church of the Resurrection Blarney twice amonth midweek.

HEARING GOD—HEARING EACH OTHER!THE EASTER VESTRY—MORE

THAN JUST AN AGM!

A Church open to the Holy Spirit means that the work of the Vision andDevelopment Group (VDG) must discern what God wants. As part of thatdiscernment over the next few months the VDG members are going toreview the ministries and the life of the Union – it will be an exercise inlistening which we will then reflect on through scripture and prayer.

So at the Easter Vestry on the 15th April (8pm in the Parish Centre) thefocus will be on how the VDG aim to progress this Listening work.

Of course with elections taking place, the usual reminder to pray aboutwhether you might serve on the Select Vestry this coming year...as oneof the 12 members or as a Church Warden.



BE PART OF A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD

During the United Celebration on Sunday 7th April(11am) we will be joined by theBallincollig Community Forum / Linking Hands Projectwho are attempting to break a Guinness World Recordfor the most hand-prints in one place.

The aim of the project is to reach out far and wide, home and abroad,get everyone involved, and in the process, pay tribute to the communityspirit shown by so many clubs, organisations, schools and groups in thearea. They are asking everyone to buy a square for 1 euro, draw theoutline of their open hand (they can be decorated and signed,) as asymbol of friendship and togetherness. The squares will be sewn togetherand made into banners tied together and displayed along the main streetin Ballincollig in July. Moneys raised will go to 2 local charities, “Headway”a rehabilitation training centre for adults with acquired brain injury, andthe Gunners Special Olympic football team who play and train on ourNorth Field.

After the service there will be an opportunity to draw your hand and bepart of this Guinness World Record attempt, but more important still. Bepart of a great community initiative.

Every blessing and prayer, Ian

Thank you !Just to say a huge thankyou to everyone for thehospitality, the flowers, themusic and all the practicaland prayerful support forthe Mothers’ Union FestivalService on 16th March—andthe for LOVELY flowers andgenerous gift from theparish & LG/MU. I wasamazed by it all! And Iknow our guests fromacross the diocese reallyenjoyed their visit.

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APRIL 2013

The Parish office will be closed the week 1-5 April.

Annual Youth Trip from Wed 3-Sat 6 April in theFaith Mission Centre, Bandon (secondary school age

and 6th Class of national school).

Saturday 6 April - Connect Forward Planning meeting 10.30 am-12.30pm in the meeting room of the Parish Centre

Sunday 7 April—9 am Holy Communion in St Peter’s, Carrigrohane & 11am United Celebration in Parish Centre

Lighthouse - 3.30-5 pm in the Church of the Resurrection, Blarney on14 April - Messy Church for all the family, everyone welcome!

Easter General Vestry meeting at 8 pm in the Parish Centre on Monday15 April.

Seniors’ Lunch 12.30 pm Wednesday 17 April in the Parish centre,preceded by Holy Communion at 12noon.

'Glow' from 7-9 pm in the Parish Centre on Friday 19 April (and on 24May)

Xperimental from 5.30-7.30 pm on Sunday 21 April - location to beconfirmed!

Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 April - NEW WINE events with JohnHughes—see elsewhere for details.

Saturday 4 May—Café Connect Fundraising Quiz Night in the ParishCentre at 7.30 pm—run by Sunday PM in aid of Cork Penny Dinners andthe new parish drum kit. Everyone welcome!

Glow Max—Friday 10 May from 7.30-9.30 pm in the Parish Centre

Lighthouse - 3.30-5 pm in the Church of the Resurrection, Blarney on12 May - Messy Church for all the family, everyone welcome!



STEWARDSHIP ENVELOPESFOR 2013 (pink!)

are available in the Churches. If you take a box, please writeyour name beside the appropriate number on the sheet

provided. Thank you !(If you have the following stewardship envelopes for your 2012 giv-

ing—please phone or email the office so we can put your name on the records and beable to receipt you or apply for tax reclaim next year: - Purple envelopes 22 and 59

Orange envelopes 23, 25, 26, 35)

Church Library—CatalogueLucia O'Donovan is currently cataloguing all the Christian books thatare available to borrow from the Carrigrohane Union and the list willsoon be up on the website and available to home groups and individu-

als to borrow. We would also like to invite you to offer Christian books of your ownthat you have found useful/interesting. We don't necessarily want you to donate

them as storage would become an issue but if you have a book or 2 that you thinkmight be of interest to others and that you would be willing to lend, please

forward the book title, author's name and perhaps a comment about the bookfrom your point of view to Lucia: 087 2942285. Thank you.

Please note: Staff Members’ Day Off (usually!)Ian: Tuesday Robert: NOW TRYING FRIDAY !

Matt and Katie: Wednesday and Saturday

Cork Indigent Roomkeepers’ Society

has been in existence for over 200 years and aims to assist financiallythose in need in the parishes of the United Diocese of Cork, Cloyne &Ross. Despite the gallant work of our collectors and donors the Societycurrently runs at a deficit which is eating into its reserves. In an effort toraise extra funds, committee member & Hon Treasurer, Noel Barber,with his wife Gillian, are at their own expense walking the final section ofthe Camino de Santiago de Compostella (The Way of St James)in Northern Spain in May 2013. There will be sponsorship forms in thechurches—and all donations are mostwelcome.

The Parish regularly supports this Society inour annual charity giving at the end of eachyear.



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