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NEXT MEETING

Mondays meeting.

Our meeting on Monday 5th May, was well attended even with the beautiful Bank Holiday Weather, and we had a very thoughtful meeting.  Thanks to all those who contributed in whatever way.

Our next meeting is Monday 2nd June, and will be a social event - further details to follow.

If you haven't been before please email us before coming.

NEW PAGE

New library page added....

We've just added a new library page which has some of our past orders of service, including prayers, reflections etc.  Check it out now!

 

If you haven't been before please email us before coming.

Welcome to The Gathering

 
We welcome Christian and Non-Christian alike, those who have a faith and those looking for one.
We are a friendly informal group and welcome new members with a genuine interest.

Ephesians 1:1-14 (The Message)

1-2 I, Paul, am under God's plan as an apostle, a special agent of Christ Jesus, writing to you faithful believers in Ephesus. I greet you with the grace and peace poured into our lives by God our Father and our Master, Jesus Christ.

3-6 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He's the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.

7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

11-12 It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson

All are invited to the launch of L+, a new older persons group in The Black Box, Belfast on 17th May at 2pm.