The Corrymeela Community

Join Christians at Pride NI

Come along on Thursday night.

Borderlands is this Thursday. We will be meeting in our usual venue, The Pavilion on Thursday 25th July from 7.30pm. Join us as we platform stories, poetry and songs that reflect the courage and beauty in the LGBTQIA+ community in Belfast. It’s going to be a very special and unique night. The next Borderlands after this month will be the second Tuesday of September, 10th September.

Corrymeela hosted the Summer Learning Journey last week with around 80 participants gathering to learn about how to nurture hope in places of conflict. Part of this large gathering was the International Seeds Group which has been meeting online for the last year. This was their first time meeting face to face. This programme is funded by Henry Luce Foundation and includes participants from 8 countries including Afghanistan, Lebanon, South Africa and Ukraine.

Reminder:
Corrymeela is now looking to recruit an Assistant to the Leader and the Senior Management Team. This is a part time position (3 days/wk) based in Ballycastle. Please consider who you know that might be interested -- including perhaps yourself.
**Deadline is Friday 10am!**
https://www.corrymeela.org/news/239/new-position-open-assistant-to

For the next few months, all donations received from the book table in the Ballymoney Tesco’s store will be dedicated to the local charity and a store collection will take place on Saturday 6th July from 10.00am to 5.30pm.

We are very grateful for this community support!

https://www.corrymeela.org/news/241/a-new-chapter-for-corrymeela

🏌️ Join Oscar winner James Martin MBE plus special guests (including BBC Sports presenter Stephen Watson & former World Boxing Champion Brian Magee) at Ballycastle Golf Club this September for our Charity Golf Scramble.

⛳️ Spaces are limited, so be sure to book your team soon!

Register now and find out more at: www.corrymeela.org/events/250/james-martins-charity-golf-scramble

James Martin’s Charity Golf Scramble is proudly sponsored by Travel Ireland Coaches

Corrymeela is now looking to recruit an Assistant to the Leader and the Senior Management Team. This is a part time position (3 days/wk) based in Ballycastle. Please consider who you know that might be interested -- including perhaps yourself.

https://www.corrymeela.org/news/239/new-position-open-assistant-to

Every fourth Sunday of the month (and tomorrow's one of those) we meet for Corrymeela in the City -- a service of song, scripture, prayer and reflection.

5.15 to 6pm in the welcome area of Fitzroy Presbyterian in Belfast off University Street.

We are Corrymeela and you are always welcome.

If you cannot make the service at St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast today at 11.30, please join us via the cathedral's livestream:

Service for the Day of Reflection

Please share widely:

Tomorrow, the longest day of the year, is the Day of Reflection about the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. It is a chance for us to acknowledge our hurt, reflect on our life together -- and commit to a future that is better for all of us.

If you are in Belfast tomorrow, join us at St. Anne's Cathedral at 11.30 for an hour-long service as the sun reaches its high point of the year.

We are Corrymeela and you are always welcome.

A reminder of the Inclusive Service taking place this Sunday at 3pm in Portrush Town Hall.

All are welcome.

Nothing helps build community better than food.

Carrickfergus Enterprise are hosting their own Big Lunch, and helping to raise some funds for Corrymeela in the process. It will be an excellent opportunity to sit down, eat and connect with our local community. Meet up with those you already know and make some new contacts.

Come and join us on Thursday 27th June 2024 between 11am and 12.30pm at the main admin building: 8 Meadowbank Road, Carrickfergus.

To help us plan, please register by no later than 5pm on Monday, 24th June 2024 by confirming the number attending from your organisation and the food you are going to bring (so we have enough) on the link https://bit.ly/3Xds2MH

The Day of Reflection is a chance for us to acknowledge our hurt, reflect on our life together -- and commit to a future that is better for all of us.

If you are in Belfast, join us at St. Anne's Cathedral at 11.30 for an hour-long service as the sun reaches its high point of the year. Friday 21 June 2024

We are Corrymeela and you are always welcome.

Community members came together from Bushmills and Ballycastle recently, as part of Volunteers Week 2024 to help one another within their community gardens. Corrymeela gardeners were among those rolling up their sleeves.

Read more about this outing on our website -- and give thanks for all those who volunteer to make this a better world. (Photo credit: Ciaran Clancy)
https://www.corrymeela.org/news/238/blooming-lovely-digging-into-volunteer

Happy Pride!
We are delighted to be a part of Causeway Pride's Inclusive Service, taking place Sunday 16 June at 3pm in the Portrush Town Hall in partnership with Christians at Pride NI.

All are welcome.

The 21st of June has been designated as the Day of Reflection. On the longest day of the year we reflect on the conflict in and about Northern Ireland and on the better future we can form together.

We will be gathering at St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, 11.30 to 12.30 for a special service: to remember, to acknowledge pain and to find healing.

Join us. All are welcome.

Meet our friend Kathy. She’s planning on hosting a Big Lunch this June in her local community; bringing people together around food and fun (and raising vital funds for Corrymeela in the process!).

Thank you Kathy! Who else wants to host a Big Lunch this June? 🙋🙋🙋

Find out how here: https://www.corrymeela.org/events/249/the-big-lunch

Could you host a Big Lunch this June and raise vital funds for Corrymeela? It can be as big or as small as you want—from a full street party, to an office lunch or a Saturday morning open-house coffee morning. Maybe you've already got a social event planned that could be a Big Lunch? The sky's the limit!

Find out more about The Big Lunch, how you can set up your own (and how we can help), and where your generous donations will go by clicking this link: www.corrymeela.org/events/249/the-big-lunch

Every fourth Sunday in the month we gather for Corrymeela in the City at Fitzroy church on University Street in Belfast. Doors open at 5pm for a 5.15 start.

Song, scripture, reflection, prayer.
We are Corrymeela you are always welcome.

Congratulations to our Shine a Light ambassador (and good friend) James Martin, MBE.

🍰 Host a Big Lunch this June! 🍰 It can be as big or small as you want—from a coffee break to a street party, you decide.

By hosting a Big Lunch at work, with family, neighbours or friends and raising some funds in the process, you can help people from our most challenging communities find a sense of belonging.

Find out how to set up your fundraiser and get planning your Big Lunch now: www.corrymeela.org/events/249/the-big-lunch

This month’s Borderlands explores our human connection to the Earth...the importance of our being grounded in a place, aware of our interdependence on the natural world, the rhythm of the seasons and our responsibility to care and protect it.

We will hear from people active in creating connection to nature, those involved in community gardening in urban spaces and reflect on the sacredness of the ground.

We’ll also have some beautiful music and poetry as always. Join us on 14th May from 7.30pm at the Pavilion in Belfast.

🥪🥗🥖 Nothing helps build community better than food! ☕🌭🍎

Corrymeela have partnered with the Eden Project in support of The Big Lunch annual get together, bringing people together in their communities to share friendship, food and fun this June.

We're hoping to have as many big (or little) lunches as we can, wherever we are this June—would you join us? Host your own Big Lunch, bring your community together and help raise some funds for Corrymeela in the process!

Find out how at: https://www.corrymeela.org/events/249/the-big-lunch

This Sunday is Corrymeela in the City -- our monthly gathering of song, scripture, prayer and reflection. 5pm for a 5.15pm start.
Presbyterian in Belfast.

The Rev. Cheryl Meban will be leading.

We are Corrymeela and you are always welcome.

Chag Pesach Sameach!

What a joy to share blessings and food with volunteers, staff and community members.

Children from Jewish, Muslim and Christian families gathered in the Croí this evening as volunteer Haley Bannon led us in a seder meal using a Haggadah she compiled for Corrymeela.

We included on our seder plate oranges to symbolise ‘the fruitfulness that diverse identities and backgrounds bring to Jewish life’ and olives to ‘represent solidarity with Palestinians’ with this universal symbol of peace.

‘L’shana haba-ah b’shalom’
Next year in peace! L’chaim!