Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

This Sunday - 8th November

6 November 2015

This Sunday we have our annual Service of Remembrance in Ballyhenry at 11am. The service will, as normal, include a supervised crèche and full children's programme. Niall will be speaking on the theme of 'Reflections on Remembrance'. Then at 7pm we meet for our evening service when Lorna Morrison will be speaking. Lorna is a member of Ballyhenry and works with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in the North West of the Province.

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This Sunday - 18th October

16 October 2015

This Sunday we meet at 11am for our morning service. This week's service is an 'all age service' where our theme will be 'Perfect Ten' - based around the Ten Commandments. Niall will be speaking and a mixture of folks from within the congregation will be taking part. Then at 7pm Neale Blair will be speaking on the next part of our series on the Lord's Prayer 'Lead us not into temptation.'

While the morning service is all-age we will still have our supervised creche throughout the service.

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Sir Alex - A Modern Day Parable

13 October 2015

Earlier this week there was a programme on TV on Sir Alex Ferguson. Don’t know if you saw it, if you missed it it’s on BBC i-player: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06j7qw8/sir-alex-ferguson-secrets-of-success

It’s an up close and fascinating look at Sir Alex the man and Sir Alex the leader. You learn all kinds of things – for example I never knew that his dad lived in Belfast for a time, working in Harland and Wolff, and playing for Glentoran.

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Thinking about Communicant Membership

9 October 2015

On Sunday 18th October we will be holding a communicants’ class in preparation for our next Communion Service (15th November).

So … who is this for, and is it for you?

Over the last number of years a whole variety of people have come along to our communicants’ classes.

Some people who do not yet have a personal Christian faith (or aren’t sure) have come along to find out more about what it means to be a Christian.

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'The Players Were Outstanding!'

8 October 2015

Wow! What a night at Windsor Park. Northern Ireland through to their first major football finals since 1986. AP McCoy was interviewed tonight after the match on Five Live and he was saying it was taking him in his memories back to childhood and 1982. It’s been a long time, a long long time.

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