200th Anniversary Northern Ireland Event

2023 was a big year for ICS when we reached our 200th Anniversary. To celebrate this event in Northern Ireland, please join us on 8 May at Hillsborough Parish Church.

Samuel Codner started a mission to educate English-speaking settlers in Newfoundland. Through broad vision and lively faith, a great missionary enterprise that spread through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was born. Today, ICS has mission partners working in 65 congregations in Europe, North Africa, South America, the South Atlantic and Asia. We also provide Resort Mission in holiday destinations in Switzerland and Corfu.

Please join us as we celebrate our bicentenary in Northern Ireland. There will be a Thanksgiving Service, followed by a light lunch.

We will be joined by the following speakers:

• The Revd Clive Atkinson (former ICS Chaplain in Vevey and Chateau d'Oex and now Rector at Willowfield Church in Belfast)

• The Rt Revd Richard Jackson (Chair of ICS Council)

• Ms Mimy Gardiner (ICS Council)

• The Revd Canon Richard Bromley (ICS Mission Director).

Worship will be led by Mr Andy Flannagan.

Every other month, we meet on Zoom to pray for ICS. This is an hour-long meeting when we are joined by an ICS mission partner who will lead us into a time of Devotion and who will give some news of their chaplaincy. The meeting will finish with a time of prayer.

Please join us at this meeting, everyone is welcome! The Zoom link for the meeting will be emailed to you. We look forward to seeing you.

Please join us for the ICS AGM & Showcase and let us give you a glimpse into the world of ICS, meet team members and catch up with friends. We will also endeavour to live-stream the event on Zoom. Advance booking helps us to cater as tea/coffee and cakes will be on offer.

Please sign-up via the form below

Email Yelena Williams ywilliams@ics-uk.org

Phone + 44 (0)24 7646 3940

Places will be allocated first to Members of the Society (Members have the right to speak and vote) then to Members’ guests or other supporters on a first come, first served basis according to the order in which application forms are received. ICS Members will receive further mailings concerning the AGM.

Travel

The nearest carpark is the NCP car park at Ringway Hill Cross, Belgrade Plaza, Coventry CV1 4AJ. This is a 2-minute walk to the hotel. Coventry train station is a 20-minute walk away.