Archive for August, 2005

Carrick

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

Right, so I’m off to Carrick tomorrow for the GO team there. If you would like to pray more specifically for the week, here is the list of who is doing the stories at the kids’ clubs each day (there’s 2 clubs):

Monday: Lynda and me
Tuesday: Joel and Philip
Wednesday: Rachel Millar and Abigail
Thursday: Strobert and Fiona
Friday: Daniel Ritchie and Conor

Drugs!

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

Just when you think young Jason is a sensible chap, he goes and writes this:

“Last week, Titus and I served on a week long mission team in Newry, a large town in Northern Ireland.”

It’s actually a city, but we won’t hold that against you.

“While there we helped run a Vacation Bible School”

We ran a what??!

“distributed promotional pamphlets”

We distributed what??

“and worked on evangelism projects”

Evangelism projects??! After thinking on this for 5 minutes, it has occured to me that maybe he means door to door.

Squigley must be feeding them magic mushrooms!

AiG launch Creation Museum blog

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Yet another blog launched

The New College

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Me and my dad were down at Knockbracken today putting up the blinds in the new college. Here’s some snaps:

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From the road – the college, as well as Knockbracken church building and hall

02_thecollege
The front of the College

03_thecollege_side
From the side

04_college_knockbrakenentrance
The entrance to Knockbracken

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Knockbracken church and hall

06college_back
The back of the college

07collegeback_stepsdown
The back, with the steps going down to it

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The kitchen, where the students will eat their cream buns

16_kitchen
The kitchen again. There’s a McDonald’s 2 minutes down the road

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Bookshelves in the library

12_library
The library from the corner. Not too big compared to the Queen’s library!

13_libraryweeromwithshelves
There’s also a wee room off the library with bookshelves all round its walls

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Another wee room beside the library. This one has windows. Maybe an office or something

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Measuring up

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The view out one of the windows, through the raindrops

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The surroundings of the College. Lots of rich people who’ve bought farmhouses

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The classroom / lecture theatre. The desks have two inkwells each, as you can see from the photo. How much writing are the students expected to do?!

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The view out the window of the classroom

17_office
An office

17_toiletshower
A room with a toilet and shower. There’s also a separate disabled toilet

18_hall
The hall of the Hall

19_the40
The 40 – looking out the back of the College through the big door

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Out the front of the College