This Sunday, 11 May at 11.00am Presbyterian Moderator Dr Russell Birney will visit Windsor Presbyterian Church on Belfast's busy Lisburn Road to congratulate the congregation on the completion of a £175,000 programme to re-roof the church and hall.
"For the 225 families raising this amount of money has been a major undertaking," explains the congregation's minister, Rev Paul Erskine. "However the cost has been reduced considerably by a scheme introduced recently where, on repairs of this kind, the Chancellor refunds 12.5% of the VAT that we have to pay. We must be one of the first churches to benefit from this scheme and it has been of enormous help to us."
And when the Moderator is at Windsor he will also take the opportunity to congratulate the congregation's organist and choirmaster who has completed thirty years service in the congregation.
Mr Jim Caves took up the post in 1973 and has since made a valued contribution to the conduct of worship both in the congregation and in the wider church. He was a member of the committee that produced the Presbyterian Church's supplemental hymnbook 'Glory to God' in 1994.
Mr Caves, an educationalist by profession, and for which he was awarded an OBE, has also been a member of the Presbyterian Board of Education which represents and guides the opinions of the Church with regard to state education.
After the service Dr and Mrs Birney will be joining the members of Windsor for lunch in the church hall which is being held to raise funds for Christian Aid projects.
Issued by Stephen Lynas, Presbyterian Information Services. Info@PresbyterianIreland.org
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