Rural Chaplain - Kenny Hanna

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🚜 Over 20 years experience as a pastor in rural communities. Part-time farmer.
❤️ Caring for farmers

28/10/2026

✅ Starting tomorrow night ✅
⏳Thursday 29th October

⭐️ “Good News at the Co-op ⭐️
🐮🐑 Rathfriland Farmers Co-op
Livestock Mart

📍 Thursday 29th October
“How Important is a New Tractor?”
⏰ 8pm

📍 Friday 30th October
“Are Bigger Barns Enough?”
⏰ 8pm

📍 Saturday 31st October
🍔 Teens & Young Adults’ BBQ
☕️ food served inside from 7.30pm,
⏰ programme begins 8.15

📍 Sunday 1st November
“Is the Grass Always Greener?”
⏰ 8.30pm

👍 Everyone welcome
🤝 Please spread the word, invite others
🙏 Above all, please pray

📞 More info from Kenny - 07938 488372

🤝 Many thanks

God bless 🙂

27/10/2026

✝️ Good News at the Co-op
📍 Rathfriland Co-op livestock market

⭐️ This Friday -
Friday 30th October - 8pm

🌈 Gospel outreach
🚜 With the Rural Chaplaincy team

✅ Vi Dawson (local farmer’s daughter and former school principal)
With her story of her faith in Jesus

✝️ Jesus’ story, in a simple Bible talk
⭐️ “Are Bigger Barns Enough?”

👍 Everyone welcome
🤝 Please spread the word
🙏 Above all, please pray

📞 More information - 07938 488372

God bless 🙂

26/10/2026

✝️ Good News at the Co-op
📍 Rathfriland Co-op livestock market

⭐️ Starting this Thursday -
⏰ Thursday 29th October - 8pm

🌈 Gospel outreach
🚜 With the Rural Chaplaincy team

✅ Victor Chestnutt (former President of the Ulster Farmers’ Union)
With his Farmers’ story of his faith in Jesus

✝️ Jesus’ story, in a simple Bible talk
⭐️ “How Important is a New Tractor?”

👍 Everyone welcome
🤝 Please spread the word
🙏 Above all, please pray

📞 More information - 07938 488372

God bless 🙂

24/10/2026

It’s That Time of Year - Shorter Days

It’s that time of year again. Getting darker. Getting colder. And getting wetter. Storm Austen has paid us an unwelcome visit. 🌫️

It’s that time of year again, when cattle, like these Co Down dairy cows, I came across recently, are housed for Winter. 🐄

Many of us dislike the darker days. They can pull down our spirits. I too prefer brighter, warmer, longer days. ☹️

But, I know other people who like the longer, darker evenings. Lighting the fire. And hunkering down for Winter (which will soon slip up on us). 🔥

I also know farmers who say that, when you get red-up in the evenings, there’s not so much to do. It’s dark. You go in and chill. ☺️

The point is, we shouldn’t be surprised, when the longer, darker nights come. We know that this is a natural part of the well-worn rhythm of the seasons. 🤷‍♀️

All this brought to mind another well-worn rhythm: the changing seasons of life. 👦 👨‍🦳

When we’re younger, everything is about looking to the future. With exciting dreams to dream and plans to make. If you’re a young person, you stand at such an exciting junction of life. With farms to develop. Careers to pursue. Families to build. 💭

If you will allow me to offer one word of advice to you, it would simply be this... As you make your plans, give the steering wheel of your life over to Jesus. 1️⃣

Trust Jesus for your salvation - to get right the most important thing of all: your broken-by-sin relationship with God. “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth” (Ecclesiastes 12:1). ✝️

And, for those of us (like me) who have left youth behind us long ago, this season of life is a good time to ponder, to consider. Where am I going?❓

David, who wrote Psalm 23 as an older man, was trusting in God as his Saviour-Shepherd. And so he had complete assurance, that God was with him now, and that he would be God forever: 👍

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.” (Psalm 23:6) 💯

Whatever season of life you are in, please make sure you are trusting in Jesus for it. ✅

God bless 🙂

22/10/2026

‼️Starting one week from today ‼️
⏳The countdown is on

We’d love to see you at:
⭐️ “Good News at the Co-op ⭐️
🐮🐑 Rathfriland Farmers Co-op
Livestock Mart
Rathfriland Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd

📍 Thursday 29th October
⏰ 8pm

📍 Friday 30th October
⏰ 8pm

📍 Saturday 31st October
🍔 Teens & Young Adults’ BBQ
☕️ food served inside from 7.30pm,
⏰ programme begins 8.15

📍 Sunday 1st November
⏰ 8.30pm

👍 Everyone welcome
🤝 Please share, invite others
🙏 Above all, please pray

📞 More info from Kenny - 07938 488372

🤝 Many thanks

God bless 🙂

21/10/2026

Want a Lift Wednesday 🆙

Laid Back Chefs

That’s the men in First Rathfriland Presbyterian Church kitchen, last Saturday. Now, at least one chef is missing here: Rev Rodney Moody, who took these photos - thanks, Rodney. 📸

These men put in a lot of hard work, cooking a freshly prepared fry for 34 men. But, as you can see, they made it all look so effortless. They are laid back chefs. 👨‍🍳

They did it all, with a smile on their face, and a bit of banter thrown in too. 😊

It was a lovely, tasty, generous breakfast. If anyone went home hungry, it was their own fault! Thanks very much, fellas. You did a first-class job. 👏

And thank you so much to all the men for your very generous gift towards the work of Rural Chaplaincy (a section of the crowd are in the photo). It was a complete surprise to me - I was deeply touched. 👍

Now, back to the laid back chefs. They worked so hard, to provide a delicious fry for the rest of us. But, did it all in such an understated way. 🍳

Their approach towards the rest of us men on Saturday morning, is a good picture of God’s approach to all of us. 🤔

For, God has laid up so many good things for His followers - both now, and in the forever future. ✅

Every day, Jesus’ salvation blessings reach down into the very depths of our needy hearts. Jesus invites us: “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters...” (Isaiah 55:1-2) ❤️‍🩹

That’s right now. And, in the forever future, God promises His followers:
“they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (Revelation 21:3-4) 💧

Wonderful blessings, but won for us at the greatest price ever paid. God’s Son, Jesus, died on the cross, for everyone who will trust in Him: “you were ransomed … with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18-19). 🩸🩸

If God has already brought you to Jesus, may you be greatly strengthened and reassured - this is how much you matter to Jesus. ✝️

But, if you have never responded to Jesus’ self-sacrificing love on the cross for you, please see that Jesus paid this terrible cost so that we can enjoy His richest blessings both now, and forever. And love Jesus back. 🌟

God bless 🙂

20/10/2026

🙏 Please Pray…

✝️ Good News at the Co-op
📆 Starting next Thursday - 29th October

📍 Rathfriland Co-op livestock market
Rathfriland Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd

⏰ Thursday 29th October - 8pm
⭐️ “How Important is a New Tractor?”
🎵 Kenny Qua and band
👍 David leading
✅ Testimony - Victor Chestnutt
✝️ Kenny speaking - for the unction of God’s Spirit upon the preparation and the preaching

⏰ Friday 30th October - 8pm
⭐️ “Are Bigger Barns Enough?”
🎵 Fiddlin’ Home
👍 Jim leading
✅ Testimony - Vi Dawson
✝️ Kenny speaking - for the unction of God’s Spirit upon the preparation and the preaching

⏰ Saturday 31st October
🍔 Teens & Young Adults’ BBQ - food from 7.30pm
🎵 Ignite Ballygawley
✅ Testimony - Dean McCann
✝️ Simon speaking - for the unction of God’s Spirit upon the preparation and the preaching

⏰ Sunday 1st November - 8.30pm (please note later time)
⭐️ “Is the Grass Always Greener?”
🎵 Avoda, with Warren Smyth
👍 Simon leading
✅ Testimony - Stephen Redmond
✝️ Kenny speaking - for the unction of God’s Spirit upon the preparation and the preaching

☕️ For all the practical details - refreshments, chairs, etc

🤝 For Jesus’ followers to be proactive in praying and in inviting along others who need to hear about Jesus

⭐️ For God to bring people to know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour

🙏 Above all, that God will be glorified in this outreach

🌈 Thank you so much, for your prayers

God bless 🙂

19/10/2026

Jim, Simon, or I, plan, God willing, to attend the following sales and events this week.

Serving farmers, farming families and the rural community.

You are welcome to speak to us in confidence 🤝

Happy to help anyone we can 💙

We’d really appreciate your prayers 🙏

God bless 🙂

📍 Monday 19th October
Dromore High School Harvest - Thanksgiving Service
✅ Dromore Cathedral
⏰ 2pm

📍 Thursday 22nd October
Hilltown Farmers’ Attested Sales – sheep
⏰ Evening sale

📍 Friday 23rd October
Rathfriland Co-op – cattle
⏰ Daytime sale

📍 Saturday 24th October – Crossmaglen Livestock Sales – cattle
⏰ Daytime sale

📍 Saturday 24th October
Markethill Livestock and Farm Sales – weanlings, suckler stock, stores
⏰ Daytime sale

18/10/2026

📍Slightly earlier this year

✅ In Ballymena Mart

17/10/2026

Big Breakfast Brings Farmers Together! 🍳

It certainly did, at Molesworth Presbyterian Church, last Saturday morning. An event for farmers and farming families - the sausage and bacon baps were a big hit! Especially, when you could go up for seconds! 🥓🌭

Thanks, folks, for inviting me to speak. And for feeding me, very well indeed! And with tea on tap! 🤝

And thanks to Harry and Patricia Burke for kindly putting me up, the night before, to cut down on my travel - with being in Markethill the evening before. 🛏️✅

Events like these are such a great way to get farmers together. Delicious food, and the opportunity to meet up with like-minded people, are a winning combination. 👍

With the next generation of potential young farmers also enjoying the morning. (Photos used by permission). 📸

What brings you together with others? As a farmer, born and bred, you’ll not be surprised that I love getting together with farmers. 🚜

But, there’s a group of people I have even more in common with than farmers - other people who love and follow Jesus. 🤔

And that’s because, when God draws someone to trust in Jesus, to take our place, our sin, and God’s judgment that should come to us, God actually adopts us into His own family! 😲

The Bible explains that God purposed and planned Jesus’ followers “for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will” (Ephesians 1:5). 😊

I’m an only son - I have no brothers or sisters. That makes it particularly special for me, to now have brothers and sisters in Christ, wherever I go!❗️

But, even if you have siblings galore, if you also follow Jesus, what an amazing privilege to know that, across the world, there are many people who are members of Jesus’ family too. And I was made so welcome in Molesworth. 🌈

Isn’t God amazing? Who else could have thought of, and brought about, a worldwide family, His family, all through the sin-forgiving death of His Son, Jesus? ✝️

So, if you are a part of Jesus’ family, praise Him for this incredible privilege. And always be on the lookout for other members of Jesus’ family, near and far, whom you could pray for, or encourage in some other way. 🙏

And, if you’re not a member of Jesus’ family, what is holding you back? Ask Jesus to bring you into His salvation and into His family. ⭐️

God bless 🙂

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