Travelling to and from Newtownards over the weekend there were a number of impressive buildings that stood out along the way. Stormont is the home of the N. Ireland Assembly. The grounds and building looked so well in the beautiful spring sunshine. Closer to Newtownards, Scrabo Tower stands high on a hill just overlooking the town, it is a well known landmark and can be seen for miles around.
Scrabo Hall is an impressive building too, modern and purpose built for a contemporary church. Much more impressive though is the work and ministry of the church that meets there. Clearly the church has a vision to reach into the local community and around the world with the Good News of Salvation in Jesus Christ.
The purpose of the missionary weekend was largely to inform the church about the future work and ministry of a young couple from the church. Paul & Cathy Wright are completing their training with New Tribes Mission in England. It’s their intention to work with New Tribes in the Philippines and they will probably go there sometime next year.
Paul & Cathy, Betsy (a Filipino girl also in training with NTM) and Bobby & I took part in the meetings starting with the Youth Fellowship on Friday night, informal fellowship on Saturday evening and services on Sunday morning and evening. Lunch was provided after the morning services. There was ministry from God’s Word and various audio/visual and spoken presentations on mission related topics.
We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend and came home encouraged by the commitment and involvement of the folks at Scrabo. Thank you for all the hard work you put in there!
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