Christchurch, Buncrana

17/07/2020

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16/07/2020

Hello everyone!
Friday Fun time is back!
We will be meeting together on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site tomorrow (Friday 17 July) at 10am when we will be thinking about weeds and listening!!
Jack and Kevin have been very very busy recently and they will be getting some help tomorrow from some visitors! Ii cant wait to meet them!
Looking forward to worshipping with you tomorrow!

15/07/2020

Good afternoon
I hope that you will be able to join with us tonight (Wednesday 15 July) in a service of Compline at 7pm on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site as we prepare for rest in the night ahead. You can find the service in the Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer or at the link www.ireland.anglican.org/news/9559/follow-church-of-ireland-broadcastonline
The readings will be
Psalm 101
Matthew 13 v 10-17
We will be thinking about building God's Kingdom and singing listening to the hymn "Your kingdom come O God" (No 509 in the Church of Ireland Hymnal)
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Parishioners may find it help to use our online content from the Book of Common Prayer as they follow the broadcast and online services being provided at the present time.

12/07/2020

We had a wonderful service of morning prayer this morning when we joined together to think about sowing and nurturing seeds and the outcome of that for the world!
We were helped by people from all over the world who sent us flowers! Well pictures of flowers! Flowers in gardens and window boxes and pots, paper flowers, Lego flowers, flowers that were drawn painted or coloured. They were all wonderful and added to our worship in a very meaningful and creative way - so thank you.
If you go to the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland page you can see all the pictures!

11/07/2020

Hi everyone
Just a reminder that tomorrow morning (12 July) at 11am we will be joining together again for worship on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site
We will be joining in a service of morning prayer (Morning Prayer 2) which you can find in the Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer (See link below).
The readings will be
First Reading Isaiah 55:10-13
Gospel Matthew 13:1-9. 18-23
Psalm 65 v 9-13
We will be thinking of seed (the word of God) being sown and the hope that there will be a bountiful harvest!
Lots of people have been busy this week creating flowers to help us worship!
We will also be singing / listening to the hymns
"Almighty God your word is cast like seed upon the ground"
"We thank you God our Father for all your loving care"

www.ireland.anglican.org/news/9559/follow-church-of-ireland-broadcastonline

Parishioners may find it help to use our online content from the Book of Common Prayer as they follow the broadcast and online services being provided at the present time.

08/07/2020

Good afternoon everyone
Just a reminder that there will be a service of Compline on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site tonight (Wed 8 July) at 7pm. There is a link to the Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer below where you will find the service
www.ireland.anglican.org/news/9559/follow-church-of-ireland-broadcastonline
The readings will be
Psalm 84
John 13 v 1-17
We will be thinking about our service to others.
We will be singing / listening to the hymn "Help us to help each other Lord"
Look forward to worshipping with you later.

Parishioners may find it help to use our online content from the Book of Common Prayer as they follow the broadcast and online services being provided at the present time.

05/07/2020

Good afternoon everyone
It was great to worship with so many of you this morning and I see that a lot more people have joined us since - on the playback option.
This morning we had so much help from our families and friends as people from all over sent in their hands! Some were beautifully painted or coloured or decorated with glitter. Some were photographs of hands and others showed that at the most simple - God holds us in the palm of his hand to support us and care for us and lighten our load! And that is what we should do with others so that their heavy burdens can become lighter.
The wonderful pictures can be seen on the
fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site
Thank you to Jane and Riley, Vicky and Ariah, Joy and Dylan and Jake, Ryan and Anna and their mummy and daddy, Brendan, Roberta, Shauna and Izzie, Johnathan and Jonny. Asha and Maddie, Leon and Christopher, Jayne, Nigel, William, Naomi and Louisa and Ursula.
As someone commented to me after the service - you are a great HANDY lot!!!!
We are all different as our hands show us and we all have different gifts and talents that we pray that we can use to help others!
Thank you - God bless

04/07/2020

Good afternoon!
This week the select vestries of Christ Church Buncrana and St Mura's Fahan met to discuss the reopening of the church buildings for worship. It was their decision that the buildings would not open again until September.
So we will continue meeting online on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Faceboook site for worship on a Sunday and a Wednesday. The family service on Friday mornings will not take place this week as the Diocese is running a Holiday Bible Club - however please keep an eye out on our Facebook sites for further updates!

Tomorrow (Sunday 5 July) at 11am we will again worship God together in a service of Holy Communion (Holy Communion 2 in the Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer - see link below)
The readings appointed for the service are
Romans 7:15-25a.
Matthew 11:16-19. 25-end
Psalm 145 v 8-14
We will be thinking about hands!
And the music will include the hymn "Thy hand O God ha guided thy flock from age to age" and "He's got the whole world in his hands".

We will be helped in our worship with hands that have been crafted by our Friday morning congregation and others!

Parishioners may find it help to use our online content from the Book of Common Prayer as they follow the broadcast and online services being provided at the present time.

02/07/2020

Good morning all!
Just a reminder that there will be a Family Fun time service tomorrow (Friday 3 July) at 10am on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland page!
We will be thinking about heavy burdens and how God can help us!
See you tomorrow!

01/07/2020

Good afternoon!
Just a reminder that there will be a service of Compline on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site tonight at 7pm.
The readings are Psalm 66 and Matthew 11 v 20 - 24.
We will be thinking about rejoicing and singing / listening to the hymn "Rejoice the Lord is King"
I look forward to worshipping with you tonight!

28/06/2020

Good afternoon everyone!
We had a great time of worship together this morning online as we though about being kind to others.
We had again wonderful pictures from our young people who made "Well Done" rosettes
Thank you to everyone who joined us either live or later and thank you for all your art work - Asha, Maddie, Jake, Anna and Ryan

27/06/2020

Tomorrow morning (28 June) at 11am on the fahanandbuncranachurchofireland Facebook site we will meet again to worship in a service of morning prayer *rite 2) which can be found in the Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer (BCP) - the link to the BCP is below
the readings will be
Jeremiah 28:5-9
Psalm 89 v 1-4 and 15-18
Matthew 10:40-end
we will be continuing to think about our part in God's mission and about being kind to everyone.
We will listen / sing
When peace like a river
O Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end

Looking forward to worshipping with you tomorrow.

Parishioners may find it help to use our online content from the Book of Common Prayer as they follow the broadcast and online services being provided at the present time.