Remember the homeless and the good people who work for their benefit 22 December, 2020 01:00 Belfast homeless charities have benefited from £16,000 from proceeds from two books by Rev Jim Rea. Last week Rev Rea, pictured left, presented £2,000 to Ben Rayot, service manager at the Salvation Army s Centenary House hostel, and Deanna Dougan, hostel chaplain
HOMELESS charities have been given a much-needed boost for Christmas thanks to a book of thought-provoking reflections written during lockdown by former Methodist president Rev Jim Rea.
Mr Rea has already given a total of £6,000 to the Salvation Army, the Welcome Organisation and East Belfast Mission s Hosford House from the proceeds of
Contemplation in action 17 December, 2020 02:00 Belfast writer and broadcaster Jim Deeds has been making a series of small holding and standing crosses from reclaimed wood. Picture by Mal McCann
JIM Deeds was sitting in his west Belfast back garden two summers ago when he felt one of those taps on the shoulders, those jolts of inspiration, that occasionally come into our lives and won t go away, writes William Scholes.
Rather out of nowhere, he decided he was going to make a wooden cross for his mother.
He describes that first effort as rudimentary. Its successors are anything but, and in the days and months since he estimates that he has made a couple of hundred in a garage workshop that has become rather more workshop than garage .