During the summer Rachel has been involved with the church King's Club and also the summer Youth Club.

During the King's Club Rachel helped in the upstairs hall, spending the week with a table of all girls aged between eight and ten.  The group was made up of girls from the church but mainly of those who don't normally attend Hill Street.

Rachel commented, "It was great to have the opportunity to chat with the girls and to get to know them better.  Going through the worksheets brought up the opportunity to talk about things like the resurrection and what exactly this means.  It made me realize that there are kids out there who don't know the basics of the Bible and how important it is that we as a church are involved in outreach work like the King's Club."

Rachel was glad to be back helping out with the King's Club this year having been away in Russia for the past two summers, feeling it important to be involved with the work of her own church.

"We were able to present the Gospel to the young people in a simple and straight forward way and to spend time with them, getting to know them and showing them God's love in a very practical way", said Rachel.

When asked what she felt was the best part of the King's Club, Rachel was keen to state that for her, "It was great to work with others in the church, both young and old (!?), getting to know better people I don't often have the opportunity to chat with."

As well as the King's Club Rachel has also been helping out with the Youth Club that has been running in 105 over the summer on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.  In fact it was very much Rachel's vision to provide, for the local young people who live in the houses around our church, a place to go during the summer evenings.

"Yeah, I felt it would be great to extend the Youth Club throughout the summer.  It's mainly the young people from the surrounding area who attend", commented Rachel.

"It's great because we can maintain and build upon the relationships that have been established during the winter.  About a group of twenty or so regularly come along to play pool, drink coffee, play computer games and have a bit of fun."

Rachel has been busy already this summer but is also planning to be involved with further outreach work, including 'glo', which sees young people from churches within Lurgan involved in various outreach activities in the Mourneview housing estate and also within the community around our own church.

Interviewed by Tim Doak, 7 August 2005.