News at Cork Church

Membership Sunday
28th September 2008
Instead of a traditional Harvest Festival Service on 28th September, we will celebrate our “harvest” of members and formally welcome the four individuals who officially joined our congregation at the A.G.M. in March.
The theme of the service will be what it means to be a member of the Cork congregation of Unitarians. New members will be presented with a certificate of membership and Unitarian Badges to commemorate the occasion. They will have the opportunity, if they wish, to speak about their journey to becoming members of Prince’s Street Unitarian Church.
The service will be followed by a short meeting where we will discuss and plan ahead for the development of our church. Perhaps we could bring and share some food as we exchange ideas and our vision for the future of our community. The focus will be on the Services and Worship rather than finances and administration.
Please do make a special effort to join us on the 28th and share your ideas thoughts and hopes. Use this opportunity to turn your vision of Church and Community into reality.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the clean up of the church and with the planting of the flowers and shrubs, particularly Brendan Burke who organised the plants and compost. The church building has taken on new life, it looks great !

Rev.Bridget Spain 17 July 2008
Minister in Charge.

The website
You will be pleased to know that on the 29 February 2008, your web site was acclaimed and granted the status of “Total Accessibility”. ‘this is the way to design a web site for vision impaired’ the report reads; that any screen reader used did not cause the pages to ‘crash’, this should be the accessability standard. Well done Cork Unitarian Church.
This is why the links are at the bottom of each page and there is no banner at the top of a page.

The Synod of Munster appointed Rev.Bridget Spain
as Minister in Charge to Cork Church on 26th May 2007.

Rev.Spain said in Oscailt magazine;
The future of the Cork Church is looking more and more positive.
At a meeting of the Synod of Munster in May 2007 I had the honour of being appointed Minister in Charge of the Cork Congregation.
I am looking forward to the task of supporting the Cork Congregation in the months and years ahead.
I replace the Reverend Brian Cockroft who has been Minister in Charge of Cork for the last number of years. I take this opportunity
to say thank you and to pay tribute to Reverend Cockroft and to the Ministers in Northern Ireland who have kept the Cork Church alive. For a long time the Church was on Life Support – the life support was provided by the Northern Ministers who refused to give up on the Cork Church even when the future looked very bleak indeed. I would also like to pay Tribute to the stalwarts Members of Cork who also kept the flame alight through the difficult times when they did not have the use of their own Church and had to take refuge in many locations to hold Sunday Services. I believe that all these efforts are now bearing fruit and that the “Patient” is now showing distinct signs of making a full recovery.

The celebration of Rites of Passage in Princes Street is a sign of the recovery of the Cork Church.
There have been two weddings in Princes Street Church during 2007. The beautiful Unitarian wedding Service gives us an opportunity to broadcast our existence as a Religious Movement and this will lead to the growth of the Church Community. Progress has been made and much work remains to be done but I am confident that better days lie ahead for the Unitarian Church Princes Street Cork.

Rev.Bridget Spain
Minister in Charge