Diocesan News
Finding Love in Advent
The Gathering Grounds welcoming people with Christian love
Our final video, from the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough, for Advent 2021 sees us ‘Finding Love in Advent’ at the Gathering Grounds in Kilternan Parish Church. (You can watch it below.) Gathering Grounds is a café run by the church for the community where the Revd Rob and Julie Clements hope everyone is met with God’s love.
They have created a café run with the help of a great team of volunteers where they serve great coffee and sweet treats and, on two days a week, lunches. But more importantly they have created a space where conversations can happen.
Rob believes that in the times we are living through people are thirsting for places where they can gather. “We are blessed with Kilternan Parish Centre but all churches can create spaces where people can gather safely,” he says. “You don’t need fancy cappuccinos but we do need to think about how we widen our church doors and receive people with Christian love.”
Here we talk to Rob and Julie, who saw the importance of creating space for people in her first college job at a drive through coffee house in Seattle. We also meet some of the people who volunteer at the Gathering Grounds and some regular customers.
Throughout Advent we have been finding Hope, Peace, Joy and Love in parishes that are reaching out to the communities in which they are based. If you missed any they are all available on the diocesan YouTube channel here.
For further information please contact:
Diocesan Communications Officer, Dublin & Glendalough
087 235 6472
Mrs Lynn Glanville
dcodublin@gmail.com