Footprints over Moira
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A friend in ministry invited David to share his story of God's grace in his life on video. Follow this link to view. David's book "Footprints over Moira" is now in print, online and on Kindle. Since December he has operated the 2hearts spiritual support website that has impacted on many lives around the world.
Each day, health permitting, he ministers to people who are facing the trauma of heart illness. His Bible teaching notes and training notes for those involved in the evangelism of children, are now available on a new web site. His web site is not merely to display his photographs but an attempt to get viewers to see the Glory of God in the wonders of creation.
Another ministry is the production of PowerPoint presentations for Missionaries on deputation, for Bible lessons and sermons and for songs and choruses. Brian has painstakingly and skilfully prepared the manuscript and cover for printing and Gordon and his wife Gillian have provided the beautiful line drawings.
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Christian Fellowship Trust has been encouraging and generous in making this booklet a reality and in allowing me to share it as a gift to Moira. And then there are those volunteers who have offered to help me distribute it in the community.
To everyone I offer my heartfelt thanks and I hope that as you read these stories, you will be enlightened and enthused about those who walked this way before us. My love of storytelling began with the greatest story of all - the story of Jesus and His love for us.
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So, woven within these pages, you will find His story. As we follow footprints, I pray that you will meet Him who made all things. He left His own footprints on this earth and calls us to follow Him, saying:. I sat lazily in the coffee shop watching passers-by. Someone had spilled water outside the shop next door. Wet footprints began to form on the dry pavement. Some people left large prints and some left small; some passed quickly leaving few prints and some stopped for a time leaving multiple marks. I noticed that as time passed the marks merged, becoming practically indistinguishable; yet everyone who walked through the puddle had left his individual imprint, even if those prints were now hidden.
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I thought how life was like that. We all tread this earth and leave footprints; some are sizeable prints and some small; a few prints remain for a long time and others disappear so fast.
We spend our lives treading on the footprints of others and easily forget the imprint made by those who have gone before us. Over the years, a great many footprints have been left over Moira. The small County Down village has had a remarkable impact on social, political, economic, religious and military life in Ireland, the United Kingdom and across the world; it is an impact that has almost been hidden under centuries of footprints. This little volume is an attempt to follow the footprints of some who walked here in bygone days.
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Some were residents and others were visitors; some came to destroy life and some came to improve it; a few were extremely wealthy aristocrats but many laboured in extreme poverty; some lie today in impressive vaults but thousands lie in unmarked graves. All walked over Moira and have gone, but we will learn much from them as we follow their footprints.
The crimson sun was slowly setting over Loch Echach. In this dense, shadowy forest, it was important to be home before dark. Home was a small man-made settlement on the high ground. Earthen embankments, painstakingly dug, were strongly fortified with wooden palisades. Only inside the rath or fort was it safe for humans and their livestock to sleep. This hill area, with the loch on the west and the river on the east, became known as Magh-Rath, the plain of the ring forts. It would later be called Moirath, Moyrah and Moyra. Growth in population and the ensuing development of the land over the years has left little to remind us of early life in this area.
Archaeologists have discovered a ruined primitive dwelling-place in the townland of Drumbane. It is a crannog; a man made island or dwelling built on stilts, usually in a lake or bog. However, some signs of our early ancestors still remain. Since December he has operated the 2hearts spiritual support website that has impacted on many lives around the world. Each day, health permitting, he ministers to people who are facing the trauma of heart illness.
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Another ministry is the production of PowerPoint presentations for Missionaries on deputation, for Bible lessons and sermons and for songs and choruses. Videos are produced as a tool for witness on DVD or online. These present photographs of Northern Ireland with Music and Bible texts in a very attractive format. David was webminister for the Moira Baptist church websitefor 17 years.
Footprints over Moira is a book of short stories, either relating to real historical characters or using imaginary characters to tell real historical stories. All of them. Historical stories taken from one thousand years of life in Moira, County Down in Northern Ireland, The quiet, romantic community of Moira has grown so quickly.