Shall we Sing a Song for you?

I was going to post about this, then I saw that it’s advertised on the back of the Messenger, but I thought I’d draw your attention to this new venture anyway.

The team is being organised by the Relief Fund (through Blythswood Care for insurance purposes) and led by Ian Morrison, to the homeland of Dan Petrescu. The idea of a GO-Relief team is for people to go over and provide manual labour. Both skilled and unskilled volunteers are required. One of the reasons why they decided to organise such a team was because RP young people were going out with other denominations to do similar things. You have to be over 18 to go on the team, again for insurance reasons. They have now got the town confirmed but they still haven’t confirmed the dates. It’s only going to last a week!

The closing date for applications is the 31st of January, and for more details get onto Rev. Ian Morrison.

Time for a wee post on Christmas before we’re totally over it for another year. We had it on Monday. G Kerr wanted me to do a review of Give My Head Peace, which isn’t going to happen, but I might as well mention it. Typically, it was the one episode of GMHP where they reintroduced swearing and I was sitting there imagining all the people I’d told to watch it sitting frowning. And the rest of the episode was pretty ropey too! But the bit with me on it was great – I was on for ages! I was about the only fan you could actually see as well. Those people that got shifts at work changed and stuff so they could spend 4 hours filming the episode wouldn’t have been too impressed I don’t think!

It is customary for bloggers to list the presents they got, so here are some of the things I got:

A lot of the books I got at the Faughan Book Fair
Clothes
Official Northern Ireland calendar (Santa wasn’t as tight as I was!)
The Saw Doctors The Cure CD
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD
Other random stuff
Florence from our congregation, obviously aware of my love for the sport, gave me got an indoor golf set. I’m sure it will go down well in Renwick anyway!
Also got the Madagascar soundtrack from Strob – I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT!!

The best present received by the rest of my family was a DVD of the Garvagh Show that my dad got – it’s hilarious!!

Update:

I also got a wee diary with a quotes section. Some of them are genius!

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee”

“I always keep a stimulant handy in case I see a snake – which I also keep handy” (W.C. Fields)

“I do not mind what language an opera is sung in as long as it is a language I don’t understand” (Edward Appleton)

“To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer”

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it” (Bob Hope)

“An autobiography is an obituary in serial from with the last installment missing” (Quentin Crisp)

“Money couldn’t buy you friends, but you got a better class of enemy” (Spike Milligan)

Justin Taylor spent his Christmas Day posting links to a few audio resources. The first is some courses on practical theology by John Piper and the second, which might be of use to some readers, is ‘The Essential Audio Tools for your Ministry” from Mark Dever of 9Marks, which JT terms ‘an incredible resource’.

Ryan Cerbus is over in Airdrie again (and is of course blogging about it), designing a website for the CTI’s ‘Semester in Scotland’ program. You can see how he’s getting on here. He has provided a few snaps for anyone in need of an Airdrie fix:

The Pulpit

Our one-eyed friend William Tait

Carla

The Edgar’s wolf

And an interesting line at the bottom of one of his posts:

I might get Andrew to start blogging, as well…

Now that would be cool! If I had nothing better to do I might even start a petition…

Update: It’s official – thanks to Carla for the link!