Missionary enthusiasm, long been reflected in sustained and responsible giving to missionary causes has reached new heights. Under Mr Rankin’s leadership there has been a new significant development in congregational missionary outreach. For the first time in a team of 17 inspired by ideals of practical missionary service, responded to the call of the mission work and spent 3 weeks in Mexico with New Tribes Mission. This ushered in an unprecedented period of deepened congregational involvement and interest. Other teams to serve were - in Brazil 2005 with New Tribes Mission - in October 2006 to help build a staff house at the girls’ secondary school at Tuum, in the Samburu District, Northern Kenya, where Stephen and Angelina Cowan are missionaries with PCI (Presbyterian Church Ireland) and during 2007 in Mozambique with New Tribes Mission.

Mission overseas is a vital part of the work of a local congregation; this will continue to be encouraged. Mission at home is sometimes more difficult. Certainly all the organisations which operate from our church continue to reach out into our community. We need to continue to seek God’s face for other initiatives to reach those our existing organisations are not reaching. One recent encouragement is our late night outreach. A number of us from the congregation are walking the streets of Markethill from 11pm - 2am chatting with those we don’t normally see earlier in the day. We must be light and salt in Markethill.

Why not help support the work of the various missions overseas that we and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland support by praying for the specific needs that they each have.

The following link is to the weekly PCI "Prayerline" topics and relate to the missions projects which the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and our congregation are directly supporting. The Prayerline bulletin is available here.