Welcome to Glengormley Methodist Church
Part of the Methodist Church in Ireland
R.E.A.C.H. Newtownabbey (formerly known as StreetReach Glengormley) began in 2005, when churches in Glengormley got together with the vision of showing God’s love in practical ways to their community.
For the past two years we have focused our work in and around Glengormley, but in 2007 we decided to widen our remit to Newtownabbey. Our vision is that we would continue to grow in numbers and that each year we could go to a different part of Newtownabbey and serve the community there, and show the love of God. For a week in August 2007 R.E.A.C.H. ran projects in and around Rathcoole. As with previous years our numbers nearly doubled from last year with around 180 young people taking part in the numerous projects.
Before we headed out to the different projects each day we had a time of worship together, led by Worship Ireland, and different speakers. We also had a time of prayer and devotionals with our teams. These times soon became the favourite part of the week for many of the ‘Reachers’. It was a time to focus on God and give the day completely over to him.
Our project provided free services for the community including cafés, a car wash, street cleaning, gardening and special projects including a mural. We also had a free fun day, consisting of a youth event on the Saturday night and a community church service.
The week had many ups and downs but overall we believe that we have made an impact upon this community. It was a great opportunity to get out and into the community, to talk to people about why we where doing all this work and why it was for free. Many people couldn’t comprehend that we where looking for nothing in return but that we just wanted to show God’s love to everyone.
R.E.A.C.H. stands for Reaching Everyone and Creating Hope; we use this for the basis of all our projects. We wanted to create a little bit of hope in the people we met during the week, even if it was to just cut some grass or give them a cup of tea, and show them that there are people who really do care.
I’ll leave you with some comments from the ‘Reachers’ themselves…
“Thanks for an amazing week! I'll never forget it!” “I have had the most awesome time with reach, I’ve gotten to know some really cool people. “ “REACH has been the highlight of my whole summer and year!!! The carwash was the best highlight this year, even though I got wet twice!” “Have to say REACH has been the most amazing week of my summer, and I met some really amazing people.” “Really struggling to get back to normality after REACH, but that shows how good it was.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 (NIV)
For the past two years we have focused our work in and around Glengormley, but in 2007 we decided to widen our remit to Newtownabbey. Our vision is that we would continue to grow in numbers and that each year we could go to a different part of Newtownabbey and serve the community there, and show the love of God. For a week in August 2007 R.E.A.C.H. ran projects in and around Rathcoole. As with previous years our numbers nearly doubled from last year with around 180 young people taking part in the numerous projects.
Before we headed out to the different projects each day we had a time of worship together, led by Worship Ireland, and different speakers. We also had a time of prayer and devotionals with our teams. These times soon became the favourite part of the week for many of the ‘Reachers’. It was a time to focus on God and give the day completely over to him.
Our project provided free services for the community including cafés, a car wash, street cleaning, gardening and special projects including a mural. We also had a free fun day, consisting of a youth event on the Saturday night and a community church service.
The week had many ups and downs but overall we believe that we have made an impact upon this community. It was a great opportunity to get out and into the community, to talk to people about why we where doing all this work and why it was for free. Many people couldn’t comprehend that we where looking for nothing in return but that we just wanted to show God’s love to everyone.
R.E.A.C.H. stands for Reaching Everyone and Creating Hope; we use this for the basis of all our projects. We wanted to create a little bit of hope in the people we met during the week, even if it was to just cut some grass or give them a cup of tea, and show them that there are people who really do care.
I’ll leave you with some comments from the ‘Reachers’ themselves…
“Thanks for an amazing week! I'll never forget it!” “I have had the most awesome time with reach, I’ve gotten to know some really cool people. “ “REACH has been the highlight of my whole summer and year!!! The carwash was the best highlight this year, even though I got wet twice!” “Have to say REACH has been the most amazing week of my summer, and I met some really amazing people.” “Really struggling to get back to normality after REACH, but that shows how good it was.”
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 (NIV)