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We have two types of Blog Links on this website

  • Personnel Blogs - Sites run by our own people serving overseas.

  • External Blogs - Sites run by our partners, plus others that relate to our involvement or interests in the mission of the Church, and particularly overseas.

Selecting and clicking on either the Personnel Blogs or External Blogs navigation bar to the right, will reveal a list of the links currently in place to blog sites under the heading chosen. Clicking on any line within this drop-down list, will open that blog site in a separate window.

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  • The Church is Alive and Well

    5/9/2010 21:00 This weekend I was deputising for the Moderator, Dr Hamilton, and had the privilege of attending the services for the re-opening of two church buildings in County Londonderry and County Down. Both buildings were splendid, and were full to capacity for the re-opening services. The congregation of...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • Donabate Church Plant

    3/9/2010 23:03 Donabate - Revd Andy Carroll These are exciting times in Donabate! The new church will begin to meet on Sunday mornings fortnightly in September and October and weekly from 14 November. We are so humbled by how God has gathered us as a church family and created a real vision for a local church in...
    Presbyterian Mission Ireland
  • Time to honour the pledge

    3/9/2010 06:29 The Ministerial Working Group tasked with addressing the PMS crisis is due to meet next week. After many months of waiting, we need some definite action on the pledge which Mr Cameron made. Here is the full text of the statement which we made. The Ministerial Working Group on the PMS crisis,...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • Funding projects

    2/9/2010 15:46 The International Project Funding Meeting has recently met in Dallas, Texas, 10-12 August 2010. Each year representatives of the various Wycliffe Bible Translators country organisations meet together.  They consider the project funds they anticipate coming from supporters, and to which...
    Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)
  • Church Planted and Died: Darrin Patrick

    2/9/2010 12:24 This video clip was emailed to me. It is thought provoking and defintely worth a watch
    Presbyterian Mission Ireland
  • Celebrating 50 years

    1/9/2010 14:23 On 1st September 1960, 50 years ago today, Wycliffe Bible Translators was officially born in the UK. The training of translators had been taking place in the UK since the early 50s, but 1960 was the year in which Wycliffe UK (named after John Wycliffe – an early Bible translator who wanted...
    Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)
  • Preaching Conference with Roger Carswell

    31/8/2010 16:42 The Presbyterian Church Board of Mission in Ireland (BMI) is hosting a day conference and workshop with the evangelist, Roger Carswell, on evangelistic preaching. Roger has written many books and has spoken at numerous events in Northern Ireland. He is now a regular contributor to ReachOut - a...
    Presbyterian Mission Ireland
  • Prayer Focus 1-8 September 2010

    31/8/2010 16:01 Download Prayerfocus1-8sept2010.pdf (76.5K) September 2010 Information in relation to mission and outreach in Ireland for Prayer Focus can be emailed to prayerfocus@presbyterianireland.org WEB ADDRESS: www.missionireland.org BLOG SITE WWW.missionireland.typepad.com PRAYER FOCUS: 1 8 September...
    Presbyterian Mission Ireland
  • Moralistic Therapeutic Deists

    31/8/2010 08:41 I know it’s a bit of a mouthful, but moralistic therapeutic deists is the term that’s being used to describe many young people growing up in evangelical churches in the United States. It’s highlighted in a recent study by Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • PCUSA General Assembly

    28/8/2010 12:45 Here is a sample of what went on at this year’s PCUSA’s General Assembly. People dressed up as animals, and figures from what looks like a Mardi Gras procession, mixed with ministers and others in an attempt to celebrate what apologists for this scene say is just PCUSA’s way of...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • Heavenly sounds

    27/8/2010 16:12 The Wycliffe Centre hosts variety of fascinating conference groups throughout the year.  This week a group of Koreans were on site, and some gave a performance of traditional Korean folk music.  Unusual instruments combined to produce a delicate and uplifting harmony.  It was so beautiful! As...
    Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)
  • Prayer Focus 25 August 1 September

    25/8/2010 14:21 Download 25 August 1 Sept 2010.pdf (78.0K) Information in relation to mission and outreach in Ireland for Prayer Focus can be emailed to prayerfocus@presbyterianireland.org WEB ADDRESS: www.missionireland.org THE MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Pray for The Moderator, Revd Dr Norman Hamilton...
    Presbyterian Mission Ireland
  • two weddings and a funeral....

    23/8/2010 13:33 Hello everyone and greetings from a beautiful sunny day in Mzuzu! This week has been very productive as school is on holidays, visitors are becoming less, and there is more time to do the small things which need done! And so on Monday and Tuesday, I was working with our volunteer Fidelis...
    Diane Cusick
  • biblefresh

    22/8/2010 12:58 2011 will mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Authorised (King James) Version of the Bible. Already there are plans to celebrate that anniversary, not merely as a backward-looking, nostaglic exercise, but to show the continuing relevance of the Bible to modern life. In an...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • News from Westport

    20/8/2010 21:30 I have just received this email from Karen and Rhonda in Westport and thought it best to post it on the blog. Do please continue to remember them in prayer. Robin Fairbairn Hi everyone. Just a quick email to say that Rhonda was admitted to Castlebar hospital last Saturday (14 August)evening with...
    Presbyterian Mission Ireland
  • PMS update

    20/8/2010 10:42 I was able to speak with one of the officials at the Northern Ireland Office today and found the conversation encouraging. All options for a resolution of the Presbyterian Mutual Society crisis are being actively pursued by the Ministerial Working Group chaired by the Secretary of State. The...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • Wycliffe and Me 2 October 2010

    19/8/2010 14:19 Have you ever thought, “I’m rubbish at languages.  Surely there’s no place for me in Bible Translation?”  The biggest mistake that can be made by anyone is to assume that you need to speak another language to be involved in the work of Wycliffe. There’s actually a...
    Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT)
  • Church House refurbishment

    19/8/2010 10:09 The frustration of some Presbyterian Mutual Society  savers surfaced again this week with the strong suggestion that the Presbyterian Church should abandon the internal refurbishment of its Church House headquarters in Belfast and re-direct the money to a fund which would alleviate the plight of...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
  • some snippets....

    15/8/2010 16:15 Hello everyone I hope this finds you all well. I am feeling more rested today after an eventful and busy couple of months. I went to church this morning, had friends for coffee, and then sat in the sun and read a book all afternoon which was lovely! Mind you, while I was in the garden, I spotted...
    Diane Cusick
  • Papal issues

    14/8/2010 12:05 The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain next month was always liable to cause controversy, not least because of his alleged personal involvement in the handling of so many cases of child abuse. Many Irish Catholics are less than totally enthusiastic about attending any of the papal events in...
    Rt Rev Dr Stafford Carson - Moderator, Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI)
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