Tides is still available via email and you can sign up at
https://www.presbyterianireland.org/tides
This week the new Moderator Rt. Rev. Dr. David Bruce will be sharing his thoughts.
I am having a few issues with the church Facebook account misbehaving at the moment. Hopefully updates will appear as usual but if they do not please check the Burnside Website each day.
www.burnsidepci.co.uk
On Sunday The Irish Blessing was released on YouTube, it was included as part of Burnside At Home, but in case you missed it you can watch it below. Over 300 churches took part they are listed on the Website www.theirishblessing.com The blessing was only released at 9:45am on Sunday so if you watched Burnside At Home too early you may have missed it.
Today would have been the opening meeting of the 2020 General Assembly, with that in mind there are a number of articles today about the outgoing and incoming moderators.
The outgoing Moderator Dr William Henry leads his final service for the wider church.
New Moderator - Interview
Moderator-Designate, Rev Dr David Bruce, is set to be installed as the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s new Moderator on Monday evening in a unique event for an unprecedented times. In an interview that would have usually graced June’s edition of the Presbyterian Herald, journalist and broadcaster, Will Leitch, met David in Belfast prior to the UK lockdown and talked about PCI. Read the article here. https://bit.ly/3gENUsw |
Installation of Rev. Dr. David Bruce as Moderator of PCI
The installation of Rev. Dr. David Bruce as Moderator of PCI will take place at 7:00pm tonight (Monday 1st June 2020) You can watch the service live on the PCI website. The Live stream will be available from 6:45pm https://www.presbyterianireland.org
Let’s Pray
The prayer guide for this week is now available. You can download it at the link below The prayers of Let’s Pray this week have been provided by the incoming Moderator, Rt Rev Dr David Bruce and focus on the meeting of the Standing Commission of the General Assembly and the Councils of the General Assembly.
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A Year In Review
For any Moderator their year in office makes for a different year. For Dr William Henry, it has been a very different year, one that often took him out of his comfort zone. You can read his reflections on his year in office here: https://bit.ly/2X4lyjS |
European Missionary Fellowship
Many of you will remember Phil Dunn being with us in Burnside. EMF are holding a webinar tonight Monday 1st June 7.30 - 8.30 pm where Matt Hill (editor of Editorial Peregrino, Spain) & Krzysztof Rutkowski (editor or Legatio publishing, Poland) will be leading the thinking on 'The power of the printed page: Still critical to building up gospel churches in Europe?'. Details of the webinar can be found here https://www.europeanmission.org/webinars/printed-page |
Running For MacMillan
Many of you will know Erin Montgomery (one of our very regular visitors to Burnside with his wife Lisa and two daughters Grace & Ellen) Erin sent me the following message. I am running 5 miles per day for 50 consecutive days up until my 50th birthday to raise money for MacMillan. I thought there may possibly be people in the congregation who may be interested in supporting me, either just because it is a generally worthy cause or even because Macmillan may have helped someone in their family or whatever. Here is the link to my Justgiving page with all of the details: |
Some good times for Friday’s Jigsaw, remember it was was a lot bigger than the rest of the week.
Frances 15:31
Derek 17:21
Wilfred 19:08
Puzzle for today.
I didn’t take this picture but it appeared on the internet showing a quiet Sunday afternoon in Portstewart.
Play the "Promenade" puzzle!
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=33990cbeee9b
Many of you guessed that the Where Is It? on Friday was the visitor’s centre at the Giant’s Causeway.
Today can you tell me Where Is It? Not too many people will ever have seen this.