17 Mar 2008 - Two people LIVING HOPE in Northern Ireland
Living Hope is a series put on by tarvin Churches Together. This special event starts at 7.30 in Tarvin Methodist Church.
For many centuries England and Ireland have experienced strife. Many in the world have seen this as Christians fighting each other.
As the result of years of work by many people there is peace in Ireland today.
The experience of those involved equips them to share experiences relevant to some of the most divisive issues of the 21st century.
On March 17th, St Patricks Day, two men from Ireland, a Protestant and a Catholic, will come and speak about their experiences and aspects of the story that reveal what has made the changes possible.
Dr Roderick Evans was born in Co Meath, Ireland, in 1923. He graduated in medicine from Trinity College, Dublin and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1951. He practiced medicine in Dublin and London and later in Asia and South America and has travelled widely in the Middle East and Southern Africa. In 1971 he returned to live in Belfast, where he experienced at first hand the unfolding of the historic developments in Northern Ireland over the past 36 years.
Jim Lynn was trained as a watch and clock repairer and worked for 27 years as a technician at Queens University before taking early retirement; he was one of three men who founded the Clonard bible study group, which met each week at the Clonard Monastery in Belfast. He is a Roman Catholic, married for 49 years and has seven children. He writes "Roderick and I along with others have worked together, what a combination! An Anglo Irish Anglican and Irish Roman Catholic. (Somehow it works)!"
For many centuries England and Ireland have experienced strife. Many in the world have seen this as Christians fighting each other.
As the result of years of work by many people there is peace in Ireland today.
The experience of those involved equips them to share experiences relevant to some of the most divisive issues of the 21st century.
On March 17th, St Patricks Day, two men from Ireland, a Protestant and a Catholic, will come and speak about their experiences and aspects of the story that reveal what has made the changes possible.
Dr Roderick Evans was born in Co Meath, Ireland, in 1923. He graduated in medicine from Trinity College, Dublin and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1951. He practiced medicine in Dublin and London and later in Asia and South America and has travelled widely in the Middle East and Southern Africa. In 1971 he returned to live in Belfast, where he experienced at first hand the unfolding of the historic developments in Northern Ireland over the past 36 years.
Jim Lynn was trained as a watch and clock repairer and worked for 27 years as a technician at Queens University before taking early retirement; he was one of three men who founded the Clonard bible study group, which met each week at the Clonard Monastery in Belfast. He is a Roman Catholic, married for 49 years and has seven children. He writes "Roderick and I along with others have worked together, what a combination! An Anglo Irish Anglican and Irish Roman Catholic. (Somehow it works)!"