Beneva Christian Church - Jamaica 2014

 A little "taste" of Jamaica and a reminder that the Jamaica Team will be sharing this Sunday in church. 

A Breakfast in Jamaica

Green Bananas (broiled)

Fritter (Fish)

Banana Bread

House Build

The Blue house is falling down, this will be the replacement.

Peace of Heart

"WHEN a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires.

Hence it makes him sad to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought.

     True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them. There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man."

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

Jamaica Update 2 - Misc Pics

Jamaica Update - Church at the Bus Stop

Beneva Christian - Jamaica Mission Trip

Please pray this week for the Beneva Mission Trip to Jamaica!

A few things we are doing...


- Feeding the Hungry

- Helping Build a Bathroom for a School

- Street Ministry

- Prayer Walks

Mission to Ireland 2014

Pray for the people from Beneva Christian who will be traveling to Northern Ireland next month to serve at, and through R.I.O.T. (Revival In Our Town), which is located in Dundrum. 

The following are some of the places we will visit, and areas we will minister. 

Mountains of Mourne

RIOT

Our plan is to develop a permanent full time community centre that not only provides healthy outlets for the youth but also for the rest of the village. The new community centre will aim to create a Revival In Our Town!

Some of our goals include a play park and a multifunctional sports area that will be supervised and maintained regularly. Creating a proper community centre, allows us to expand programs for groups like: Mums & Tots, Suicide Awareness, Senior Afternoon Activities, Smoking Cessation programs. Excitingly, we hope to create local job opportunities. Our aim is that RIOT will become a fluid, living, self-sustaining centre that will benefit the community for years to come.

Down Cathedral

Down Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of Ireland cathedral located in the town of Downpatrick in Northern Ireland. It stands on Cathedral Hill overlooking the town. It is one of two cathedrals in the Diocese of Down and Dromore {the other is Dromore Cathedral) in the Province of Armagh. The cathedral is centre point in Downpatrick.

It is an ancient ecclesiastical site with a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity recorded in the 12th century. In 1124 St Malachy became Bishop of Down, and set about repairing and enlarging the Cathedral. In 1177, John de Courcy (Norman conqueror of Ulster) brought in Benedictine monks and expelled Augustinian monks settled there by St Malachy. By 1220 this building was in ruins and was further damaged by an earthquake in 1245. The Cathedral was burned by Edward Bruce in 1315 and subsequently rebuilt and destroyed several times. In 1538 the monastery was suppressed and then destroyed in 1539 by Lord Leonard Grey, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, who stabled horses there. The destruction of the Cathedral was one of the charges for which Grey was executed in 1541. For two centuries after that it lay in ruins.

In 1778 John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, visited and described it as a noble ruin. A Round Tower close to the Cathedral was taken down in 1790.

The cathedral incorporates parts of the 13th-century church of the Benedictine Abbey of Down .

The restoration of the ruined 14th century cathedral of Downpatrick was initiated after an Act of Parliament of 1790 granted £1000 for the purpose. The Earl of Hillsborough donated a further £568 and £300 a year of the deanery tithes were appropriated. The long chancel from the late medieval cathedral was repaired and transformed into an aisled nave and chancel for the new cathedral. 

Work was completed and the cathedral was ready for use in 1818. An octagonal vestibule and a Perpendicular Gothic tower were added to the west end in 1826. 

Crosses from the 9th, 10th and 12th centuries are preserved in the Cathedral. The building today is mainly the original chancel from the 15th century with a vestibule and tower added. It had a second major restoration from 1985 to 1987 during which time the Cathedral was closed.

Castlewellen

Giving In or Standing Up

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines
himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.

                                         --Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Prayer

Father, make me one with You. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but being in You is all that I desire. I long for You alone to speak to me. Amen.

Humility

"...a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men." 

Taken from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis.

Prayer

The following is taken from HOW TO PRAY by R.A. Torrey. 


PRAYER IS GOD'S APPOINTED WAY FOR OBTAINING THINGS, AND THE GREAT SECRET OF ALL LACK IN OUR EXPERIENCE, IN OUR LIFE AND IN OUR WORK IS NEGLECT OF PRAYER.

James brings this out very forcibly in the 4th chapter and 2nd verse of his epistle: "Ye have not because ye ask not." These words contain the secret of the poverty and powerlessness of the average Christian — neglect of prayer.

"Why is it," many a Christian is asking, "I make so little progress in my Christian life?"

"Neglect of prayer," God answers. "You have not because you ask not."

"Why is it," many a minister is asking, "I see so little fruit from my labors?"

Again God answers, "Neglect of prayer. You have not because you ask not."

"Why is it," many a Sunday-School teacher is asking, "that I see so few converted in my Sunday-School class?"

Still God answers, "Neglect of prayer. You have not because you ask not."

"Why is it," both ministers and churches are asking, "that the church of Christ makes so little headway against unbelief and error and sin and worldliness?"

Once more we hear God answering, "Neglect of prayer. You have not because you ask not."

Daddy Daughter Dance

Here are the pics from the Daddy Daughter Dance last night. After the dance we went to Pub 32 for cheescake and LIVE Irish Music. 

I LOVE MY DAUGHTER!!!

  

The Cha-Cha

"Gangnam Style"

 Cheesecake!

What a fun date!

Quote of the Day

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. 

                                                                                            

                                                                                   - John Adams