Farewell service at St Paul’s for team travelling to Kenya
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| At a farewell service in St
Paul’s Lisburn on Sunday 16th August is the team from the parish
who are travelling to Kajaido Diocese in Kenya in two groups on
Friday 21st and Friday 28th August. L to R: (front row) Emma
Carson, Stanley Gamble, Janet Hunter, Audrey Graham, Oriel
Gamble, Mark Jamison, Rev Jim Carson, Stephen McWhirter, Roy
Robinson, Rosemary Orr, Christopher Orr and Mark McCarthy. (back
row) Anne Whan, David Hunter, Lisa Carson, Peter Halliday, Mark
Nettleship, Rodney Patterson, Alan Walker, Sarah Morrison,
Ashley Thompson, Rachel Hanna, Robbie Cowan and Jonathan Walker.
Missing from the photo is Daniel McConaghy. |
A farewell service was held in St Paul’s Parish Church, Lisburn on Sunday 16th August for a team of 25 people from the parish who are travelling to Kajaido Diocese in Kenya in two groups. The first group will leave on Friday 21st and the second group will leave on Friday 28th. The Rector, the Rev Jim Carson will lead the teams, assisted by the Curate, Stephen McWhirter. On Sunday 23rd August the team will be involved in worship in Kajaido Cathedral. During the first week the team will be doing some ‘bike’ classes and looking at the building programme at the Maasai Girls School.
The St Paul’s team to Kajaido has four main aims:
- to provide the motor-bikes for use by the Diocese
- to help build a School for Maasai girls
- to learn from and have fellowship with the people there
- to extend our links in a tangible way in the future
In consultation with Ronnie Briggs, C.M.S.I. Mission Partner in Kajaido, the parish through a church collection and donations in June 2008 raised £3,000 for a first motorbike, which was dedicated at a special service in Kajaido on the 16th November 2008 by the Bishop Taama. This is the first of another five motorbikes the parish are providing to coincide with the teams visit. These came through St Paul’s Girls Brigade, a generous gift by a parishioner, Wallace Grammar school and fund-raising in the parish.
This is part of a three year project called ‘Forward Together in Faith and Mission, at home and abroad, 2008-2010’ which also includes a week of outreach in February 2010 which may also include some participation from Kajaido.
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| Treasurer Linda Dickey and girls from St Paul’s Girls’ Brigade present a £3000 cheque for the St Paul’s Kenya Project to team leader, the Rev Jim Carson. | Presenting a £1500 cheque
for the St Paul’s Kenya Project to team leader, the Rev Jim
Carson are Mother’s Union members L to R: Rosemary Orr, Ruby
Corbett, Oriel Gamble, Heather Carson, Audrey Graham and Daisy
Clarke. |
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