• 20 September 2014

Bangor Parish hosts our first Mission Breakfast

The diocese has held its first Mission Breakfast in the beautifully renovated St Comgall’s in Bangor as part of the final preparations for our Year of Mission 2015.

Mission team members and other leaders from parishes in North Down enjoyed a bacon buttie breakfast before Bishop Ken Clarke hosted half a morning of inspiration, ideas and resources.

Tash Creaney, who has trained our parishes for 24–7 Prayer, joined us to share some ideas around Praying Missionally. She encouraged us to build on our year of 24–7 prayer and move back and forth between the places of intimacy and involvement with a world that desperately needs to encounter Christ.  

Our Diocesan Communications Officer, Annette McGrath, talked the group through some of the resources that the diocese would be offering next year plus a selection of others that have featured throughout the parish visitations. Jade Irwin, Youth Leader in St Columbanus, Ballyholme also shared about their children’s ministry and successful use of Sunday School attendance cards – an old resource given new life!

As with the prayer training, our participants also did a little work, brainstorming around getting our parishes into mission mode and how to launch the year with maximum impact. 

Bishop Ken had set the scene after breakfast with the words of ‘The Great Commission’ and, sending us out, called on parishes big and small to play their significant part in God’s mission to the world in 2015 and beyond. 

Feedback at breakfast
Feedback at breakfast