23.10.2018
‘The Beginning of a New Student Movement’ – ONE Dublin Launches in St Thomas’s Church
Students from across Dublin’s Universities, filled St Thomas’s Church on Cathal Brugha Street for the launch of ONE Dublin – new Student Gospel Music Services on Sunday 21st October.
The atmosphere was extremely jubilant, with the church colourfully decorated for Harvest, the sounds of uplifting and joyous Gospel Music from the Discovery Gospel Choir and the excitement of such a large number of diverse students gathering to experience the new vision of ONE Dublin.
ONE Dublin is an initiative of ACT3 (Anglican Chaplaincy Team at Third Level) and brings together different student ministries and Gospel Choirs, to provide dynamic, student–orientated Anglican worship.
There were a number of contributions from students from across Dublin’s Universities about various initiatives they were involved in, from plastic–free campaigns, to wildlife photography, to urban planning principles.
The Revd Rob Jones, Chairperson of ACT3, DIT Chaplain and Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines said, ‘By creating a formal structure for Dublin’s University Anglican Chaplains to work collaboratively and collectively, it has allowed us develop and harness a much wider range of student creativity and vitality. ONE Dublin couldn’t have happened, without the networking Chaplaincy approach, which has borne much fruit over the past three years’.
The Service itself followed a Kenyan 1989 Eucharistic Text, which had also been used at the opening of the Lambeth Conference in 1998.
The preacher, Philip McKinley, Church of Ireland Chaplain in Dublin City University described the launch as, ‘the beginning of a new student movement, which has the potential not just to impact Dublin 1, but the whole of Dublin city’.
The next ONE Dublin Service will take place on Sunday
18th November at 7.30pm, where the preacher will be UCD’s Church of
Ireland Chaplain, Scott Evans.
