While most of us will be guzzling Easter eggs over the holiday weekend two intrepid young guys from Fermanagh will be embarking on a 4000 mile charity adventure which will end in one of the poorest countries in Europe…
Gareth Wallace, 29, from Church Hill and James Johnson, 29, from Kiladeas are part of a team [...]
The Snow Dodgers
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
A Gateway of Hope
Monday, April 20, 2009
“It looks like a scene from the Flintstones with all that rubble…but the Church is still there and God’s people are still there.” An East Belfast boy at heart, Mersey Street Presbyterian was John McCandless’s home church.
Before becoming involved in church work he was a professional old type sign-writer (how many of those do you [...]
Men on a Mission
Saturday, April 11, 2009
She took his hand, opened it and traced the lines on his palm, before looking at her own upturned hand and doing the same. It was a connection he would never forget. She was a 12 year old deaf girl from Ethiopia, he a 62 year old electrician from Northern Ireland. There could be no going back; they simply had to help these people…
A People’s Person
Friday, April 10, 2009
We’re so quick to categorise people, whether they are single mums, drugs addicts…and yet behind the headlines there is a real desperate need in each one to be loved and to be forgiven.
Eleventh night…East Belfast style
Thursday, April 9, 2009
He used to watch the kids out on the streets on the 11th night. They were making their own entertainment, their own trouble sometimes. And then he had an idea…what if these kids could be brought into a safe, controlled and fun environment on that night and what if this could become a regular community [...]
Are We All Carolled Out?
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Hacked off with ‘hark the herald’? Tired of ‘tis the season’? Think ‘Last Christmas’ was so last year?? Are we all carolled out??






Spark is a shared outreach vision between the churches of Ballymena which aims to show love ...