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Youth Work - Shine Fresh

http://www.shinefresh.org.uk

Year: Publication Date 17 September 2009

Author: Chris Duffett

Brief Description: A gripping challenge to love people who are not yet followers of Christ ...a call to engage in the adventure of being the good news.

ISBN: 978-0-9558099-5-8 / 220 pages / Paperback
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By Jon Lambert

He’ll tell you he’s not a prolific songwriter, but he is certainly a pathfinder. Robin Mark talks to Jon Lambert about life in Belfast and how worship is bred - in the heart, not the head.



In Ireland giants still walk: from windswept dunes, between the high gable-ends of Belfast and on the tongues of storytellers. Tales are told of the colossus, Finn Mac Cool: he flung the Isle of Man into its place, bridged the wild-green sea and cast his very footprint in the black earth of Northern Ireland. Not all Celtic giants, though, make for romance. In our own time, a creature going by the name ‘Troubles’ has been striding. In his wake reels a raw, forbidding landscape. It may seem strange but in this terrain, a shout of praise is echoing. If you know your Bible, you’ve heard the tale of the shepherd-songwriter versus Goliath: and of a simple trust in the God of stone and sling over the armour of a king.
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Award-winning author encourages writers with a recession-busting retreat
Take a break from the credit crunch and get fresh inspiration in an ancient land. That’s the message from award-winning author Clive Price to fellow writers.

‘The economic downturn is like an ugly, nasty editor,’ said Clive, who will host Write Away, a recession-busting writers’ retreat in Co Donegal, Ireland, this autumn. ‘So as this monster breathes down our necks, we should regroup and gather new ideas.

‘Let’s encourage one another to become even more creative in the face of this brute. And if we sell an article or publish a book – we can wave that in its face.’ As a help to writers, the three-night event is being offered at an all-inclusive price of just €343.
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Three New Testament translations completed, despite local conflict

Within one month, three New Testaments were dedicated in Papua New Guinea (PNG). However in the same period, tribal conflict broke out in the valley, where the main centre for Bible translation work in PNG, home to many Wycliffe members, is situated.

“It’s very sad to hear of the violence,” said Heather Patrick, who has spent almost 30 years living and working in PNG and is currently based in the UK, “sad, but not a surprise. With three New Testament dedications in the past month and progress in many other translation projects, we shouldn’t be surprised that the devil wants to make things difficult.”
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Oxfam TRAILTREKKER Ireland is one of the world’s greatest team challenges, teams of four completing a cross-border route of 100km in under 30 hours. TrailTrekker begins at Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor, Co Down with teams traversing sections of the Mourne Mountains, the Ring of Gullion and the Cooley Peninsula, finishing in Carlingford Co. Louth.

We currently have a great need for volunteer DJs and MCs to provide the entertainment for this event and I would be delighted if you were able to help us out at one of our 8 checkpoints.

The event itself takes place between the afternoon of Friday 25th September and the night of Sunday 27th September 2009.
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Hi Friends

I was around the age of 8 or 9 when my family bought a portable tape recorder.  That’s when I began to make my own shows. I’d record little bits of the TV dialogue and put wee commentary’s on them. I’d interview my Dad or Mom for my documentary’s and also try to record them when they weren’t looking. The craic was ninety!  I made little mix tapes of music and I sang wee songs and created my own little albums.  As I got older I was allowed to stay up late. There was a show called The Old grey Whistle Test. A weird kinda bloke with a beard sat and explained who was coming on next with a husky dry rasp. The whispering presenter was strange and a little scary to me as a child and hard to get a sound on my tape recorder.  The music he introduced was good though. . Later they replaced the whispering guy and got someone else.

Touring England a few years later the promoter driving the van pulled into his friends house for afternoon Tiffin in the rural countryside of England. We had scones with butter, strawberry jam and cream and refills of warm tea in china cups on the veranda out the back whilst kids played on the trampoline. The bloke who lived there was very nice. Very friendly and very hospitable. He spoke in a deep gentle voice that soothed you whilst he told stories of interviewing all four Beatles after they were no longer Beatles and shared tales of meeting rock stars in such a down to earth manner that his humility was captivating. The most unassuming gentle giant who was interesting, engaging and ever so friendly: not at all scary like when he was on the Old Grey Whistle Test.

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Our local community radio station 102.4 Shine FM are to hold a competition for the best primary school choir in the Banbridge District.

"This will be a wonderful opportunity for children to compete against each other in a friendly manner, build their confidence and promote their school." said Dougie Barr, the Shine FM Chairman. "We believe this will help promote Shine FM as it will be a voice for the local community on air."

The Station are also looking for local sponsors and a venue for the event.So if you think that you would like to become a sponsor or could host the event please contact the station.

The exact dates for the event will be published shortly and the Grand Final's date/time will be set to suit the school terms and exams in 2010.

We are also hoping to have a Children’s Story programme competition. This consists of children writing their own story and the winner/runner up will get an opportunity to come into the studio and read their story out on air.

We have attached a set of rules and returned slip which we would like you to return by 18/9/09 to let us know if your school would be interested in taking part. An official entry form will be issued later.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IRELAND WOULD PAY MORE FOR A GREEN HOME


Head of the Energy Saving Trust in N.I. Noel Williams with solar panels

--- Over half of people would pay more for a home that had been fitted with a renewable energy source---

--Nearly three quarters want to know if their home is suitable for renewable energy --

Changes in the environment and changes to their income are changing the priorities and attitudes of householders across Northern Ireland.

Research released today (Tuesday 1 September) by the Energy Saving Trust reveals that over half of Northern Ireland’s householders are happy to ‘speculate to accumulate’ when it comes to house buying decisions.
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