Youth Fellowship Hits the Streets!
Dromore Cathedral and Magherally Sunday Night Youth Fellowship (SNYF) members and their friends seized the opportunity to do some outreach when thousands of visitors descended on Dromore last Saturday 30th August. This was the day the annual County Down Royal Black Preceptory parades came to town, the first time in 13 years. It is estimated tens of thousands of visitors were in the town during the course of the day.
Thanks to Tyrone Springs, who generously donated over 2,000 bottles of mineral water, a team of enthusiastic and dedicated youth fellowship members and friends affixed labels with a message from the Bible to each and every bottle before handing them out to spectators, visitors, members of the Royal Black Institution and members of the bands that accompanied them.
The message attached to the bottles was "Then Jesus declared ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty'." John 6:35 TNIV
Speaking of the project, Very Rev Stephen Lowry, Dean of Dromore said "The young people of the Cathedral decided to offer a welcome to the crowds of visitors coming to Dromore at the end of August. I was delighted that the team were so keen to take part in this. their enthusiasm was infectious, so that several others (some a lot older) joined in. It was hard work for them. They are a great bunch of young people".
NOTE:
Dromore Cathedral and Magherally Sunday Night Youth Fellowship (SNYF) is a combined youth organisation drawing the majority of its members from within the Church of Ireland Parishes of Dromore Cathedral and St John the Evangelist, Magherally.