Online booking for the 2008 Assembly is now available. For those who prefer offline booking the brochure can be downloaded for posting in. Follow the links in the right hand column on the 2008 Assembly page of the site. Booking closes on Friday 7 November 2008.
2010 sounds like the title of a sci-fi film from the 1960′s but of course its just a couple of years off. NIMA is already planning ahead and have confirmed Vaughan Roberts as one of the speakers for the 2010 Assembly. Vaughan Roberts is Rector of St Ebbe’s Church, Oxford and also a well-known author. Keep an eye out for more details nearer the time.
As mentioned before the visit of DRD will include a minister’s morning. It will be held on Monday 23rd June at Belfast Bible College. It will run from 10:00- 12:45. The cost is £5 including lunch. To register contact niall@atthecastle.org.uk
Dale Ralph Davis, minister of Woodland Presbyterian Chruch, Hattiesburg MS and author of several OT commentaries will be the speak at the next @thecastle event 20th-22nd June. You can get details of this event from their website www.atthecastle.org.uk. There will be a public event with Dr Davis on Sunday evening 22nd- details tbc. On Monday morning there will be a morning for pastors and church leaders at Belfast Bible College entitled The Word Became Fresh.
Ministry Training Strategy (Northern Ireland) is holding a training morning for trainers, ministry apprentices and potential apprentices with Vaughan Roberts
(Rector of St Ebbe’s, Oxford, author, speaker and co-founder, the 9:38 web apprenticeship scheme). It will be held on Tuesday 29th April, 2008 @ 10am – 12.30pm at St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Church Halls, Jordanstown
(off the Jordanstown Road, after level crossing, right hand side). The cost will be £5. Vaughan will address The Nature of Gospel ministry and The Character of the Gospel Minister.
Vaughan will also be the guest speaker at a clergy conference in Jordanstown on the previous Monday. Contact Bill Press on 43768246 for more information
The first NIMA preaching conference will be held 26-28 January 2009 at Glenada, Newcastle, Co Down. The main speaker will be Ed Lobb, Director of Cornhill Scotland, will be the main speaker. Keep an eye on the website for further details.
‘Christ-Centred Preaching’ is a conference we are sponsoring in partnership with Westminster Fellowship. Dr Bryan Chapell, President and Professor of Practical Theology, Covenant Theological Seminary, St Louis, Missouri, will speak in Trinity Methodist Church, Lisburn on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 May 2008 from 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. both days.
He will also be the speaker at two public meetings in Knock Presbyterian Church, Belfast, 21 May 2008 at 8.00 p.m. and in Portrush Presbyterian Church, 22 May 2008 at 8.00 p.m.
Booking details will be available later, but for information contact:
Rev. Harold Boyce
12 Cairnburn Road, Belfast, BT4 2HR
t: 028 9076 1152
e: hboyce@presbyterianireland.org
