Children’s Christmas Party

In recent years we have had a children’s Christmas party in Tomregan. As the hall is unavailable we will need to consider the most appropriate way forward.
A meeting for all interested parents and Sunday school leaders is to be held on Wednesday 30th November in Kildallon Rectory at 8.30pm.

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Senior Citizens Dinner

It has been traditional in recent years to have a Christmas dinner and dance in Tomregan Hall for Christmas. Due to the ongoing work in the hall we hope to postpone this to a new date in the New Year once the work has been completed. We will keep you updated.
There will be a meeting of the Forward group Kildallon Rectory on Tuesday 29th November at 8.30 to discuss future plans for the Christmas season and beyond.
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Mothers Union

We are joining Derrylin MU for our Christmas Dinner this year on Wednesday 7th December 2011 in Blake's Restaurant Derrylin. If you are interested in attending this great night please let Vi Breen or Margaret Crawford know as soon as possible. Vi and Margaret's telephone numbers are on the front of your MU programme.

All Ireland Chaplain Commissioning Service.

The commissioning Service for Dean Raymond Ferguson as All Ireland Chaplain of the Mothers Union will be held in Kilmore Cathedral on Sunday 11th December 2011 at 3:30pm.Could as many Mothers Union members as possible please attend this service and give Dean Raymond Ferguson your support.This will be a wonderful service and a service which we all should support.

The MU Outing will be on Saturday 5th May 2012 to Farmleigh House, Dundrum Shopping Centre and a meal at the Headford Arms Hotel in Kells. Because we need to know provisional numbers to make the bookings for Farmleigh house and bus please let Vi or Margaret know if you are interested in this outing.

The Mother’s Union website may be found at: www.kilmore.mothersunion.ie

May the wonder of the first Christmas remain with you all. God's Blessing & Peace to all. Have a wonderful Christmas season.

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New Wine

Every Year the conference New wine takes place in Sligo. We have a particular interest in the conference in 2012 as the main speaker in the morning sessions will be our own Bishop Ken. Next year it will run from Sunday July 8th to Friday 13th. It’s a great week for all ages, full of great teaching and worship. Some folk visit for days, many folk go for the whole week. We're telling you about it now because it's always cheaper to book early. If anyone would just like to know more please have a word with Pauline Beadle and she will give the latest news.

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Parish Fundraiser - Thank you

Can I say a huge thank you to all those who made two recent events such a success. The Swanlinbar supper dance was superbly organised as always and raised £2263.59 and €72. Thank you to all who supported the dance through the purchase of tickets and sharing in the night.

Newtowngore annual Sale of Work was again also very well supported and a big thank you to all who set up stalls and provided teas and sandwiches, as well as to all who came along and supported the evening. The evening raised €3200

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Blood Transfusion Service

The Irish blood transfusion service need help.
The opportunity to give blood will arise at the Crananhan suite, Slieve Russell Hotel on Monday 21st November 5pm - 8.30pm. Please remember that many patients in hospitals need our blood and this need never ceases..

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Breffni Holy Communion Service

The next service of Holy Communion will be this coming Tuesday 22nd November at 2pm. The Christmas Communion Service will be on Christmas Eve at 2pm led by Rev Steve Clark. Visitors are always very welcome to the service and add to the joy of our meeting.

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Swanlinbar Gift Day.

Swanlinbar Parish will be having a gift day on Sunday 27th November. If Parishioners have not received gift day envelopes please contact Hazel Crawford. The gift day was introduced last year to replace the Christmas fair. .

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Sustentation / Free Will Offerings

We really value the gifts of all our parishioners and friends of the various Parishes in our group - without your giving the work of the Church would not be possible. In recent years we have gently encouraged people to ensure that their offerings are with the various Parish Treasurers by the last Sunday of the year. This year that is 25th December so it really would be ideal if gifts could be received the Sunday before - 18th December. If we can comply with this request then the Treasurers will have opportunity to bank your gifts before the end of the financial year, ie 31st December. This will enable us to produce a set of accounts based on the balance in the account at that date.
Once again can we publicly share our appreciation of the work of our various money counters, recorders and the Parish Treasurers, and would ask you to get your gifts to them rather than then having to come to you, a task which is difficult, time consuming and embarrassing for all concerned. Unfortunately, if your gift has not been banked by the 31st December then it will not appear in the 2011 accounts. This is in accordance with new Charities legislation that tightens our recording procedures. Thank you all once again for your support in giving to the Church. .

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Please Help the Scribe Collectors

With bad weather at the end of the last two years it would be so helpful if Scribe subscriptions could go to the parish collectors as soon as possible. The cost is €16.50 or £12.50 for a year.

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Mission and Prayer

Scribe readers will no doubt be aware that the Bishop earlier designated this as a year of prayer in the diocese. At our Bishops invitation we had a special day of prayer recently visiting each of the seven churches in the group. May I thank you for your support in a most fulfilling day.
A few parishioners including some of our young people from the group also went to meetings in Killeshandra as they held a most memorable mission. I would want to thank our neighbours on a splendid week during which God was at work and many lives were clearly touched. They have given a glimpse of what is possible. Next year 2012 is the Diocesan year of Mission. What can we do?

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“Welcome to Advent”

To mark the start of Advent on Sunday 27th November, Swanlinbar Church will host a special “Welcome to Advent” evening of music and drama at 7.30pm. Please come along and support what promises to be a most memorable evening. Note the earlier start time than previously advised.

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Advent - Counting the days until Christmas

Advent, the period preceding the Christmas season begins on the Sunday nearest November 30, the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle, and covers four Sundays. Because the day it begins changes from year to year, so does the length of each Advent season. In 2011, Advent begins on November 27th.
The word ‘Advent’, from Latin, means “the Coming.”
For centuries, Advent has been a time of spiritual reflection, cheer and anticipation. Christ is coming again!

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Correspondence with Edoh

Letter from Edoh

Good morning,
I’m happy to write to you. I am already on holidays and am doing many things at the Centre.
I play football and ‘Ampe’ with my friends of the Centre. I am also part of the group of choreography.
Pray for me that God may keep me in his love.
Edoh

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Letter to Edoh from Kildallan school children

Dear Edoh,
Hello, we hope you and you family are well. We hope you are having nice weather where you are living.
We are having bad weather here in Ireland and we are all looking forward to Christmas time in our Church.
We all love your new dress and your pink shoes in the lovely picture you sent us of yourself.
We hope you can buy more nice things with the money we are sending you now for Christmas. You are always in our prayers.
From all in Kikldallan Church.
S (10), J(6), G (6), E (8), R )8), J (2)A (11), A (11), J (10), E (7), C (8)
(Complete names have been changed to initial only for security)

These are just a few of the many Christmas cards which are about to be sent from our schools and church groups to Edoh as we go to print. The other cards (and gifts) have already been sent as they can take up to two months to get to Lomé, Togo.

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Tomregan Hall Update

The refurbishment work on Tomregan hall is progressing.

Driving past you will notice the roof is missing on the old school side. The old gent’s toilet block has also been demolished.
Footings are presently being put inside for the steel frame that will carry the new roof.
Later there will be new toilets and significant changes to the kitchen area.
The pictures in the right are of the hall before alterations started and of the work in progress.

Many small groups are able to make use of the old Tomregan school including Happy Tots pictured at the bottom on the right..

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Newtowngore Hall

The plans to develop Newtowngore are progressing with a few hurdles still to be crossed. Many thanks to those individuals patiently helping us through these. Presently we are hoping work might begin in the new year.

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Prayer Meeting

Due to the potential problems of travel in the winter and dark nights, the weekly prayer meeting will take place on Tuesday mornings at 10am in Kinawley. We have met in other homes across the group in the past and we hope these might be used in 2012 as part of Lent season again.

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Congratulations & Joyful Celebrations

It was with great joy that Roy and Rachel Mitten celebrated the baptism of their son young William James. We praise God for young William and pray that he would grow in his love for God and delight in being part of the Church family.

We would also want to share our heartfelt joy with Stephen and Jennifer Crawford as they celebrated the birth of Jack Robert, pictured on the left. Please pray for the family as parents and young Charlie adapt to the new addition to the family.

Congratulations also to proud grandparents Norman and Molly Richardson as daughter Karen and husband Shay rejoiced in the birth of Holly. We praise God for safe deliveries for both families!

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House of Peace Orphanages, India - Update

It was great to see a number of folk who have committed themselves to supporting children at the House of Peace Orphanage in India visited by the team last summer. Recently the plans to set up financial accounts for this work were approved by the Diocesan Finance committee. The setting up of accounts is now awaiting final approval from the Diocese on Wednesday 23rd November. We will then be in a position to start taking regular contributions from those wanting to support children from the beginning of the New Year. Anyone still considering supporting children can do so by contacting Brendan. If contact is made before Christmas this would help us enormously as everything is set up to run from January 2012. Thank you once again for your generosity.

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Looking to the Future

Aedin McLoughlin from the Rural Enabler Program has invited 2 members of each of our congregations in Cavan and Leitrim to a Seminar “Looking to the Future.” The Rural Enabler programme is a special work in border regions seeking to assist local community work including churches.
If you are a parishioner of Corrawallen, Kildallon, Newtowngore, Swanlinbar, Templeport or Tomregan, this invitation applies to you. This meeting will be held on Friday 25th November at 10am - 1pm followed by a full lunch in the Ramada Hotel, Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim.
During the event we will have opportunity to:
Chat with people that you may not often have an opportunity to meet,
Hear about interesting things happening in other communities and areas;
Discuss the current needs of your community and how Protestant Identity and heritage can best be sustained through mainstream support.
Please let Richard know urgently if you wish to attend.

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Time for a Smile!

Some Things to Think About

• It is not how old you are, but how you are old.— Marie Dressler
• Always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.
• May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you're going too far.
• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. - Booker T. Washington
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. - Marquise du Deffand
• Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today. - Unknown
• The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. - Alexander Graham Bell
• There is no life that does not contribute to history. - Dorothy West
• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
Submitted by Marbeth Hill, Ahoghill WI"

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Schedule of Church Services until Christmas

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