{"id":10553,"date":"2014-09-12T18:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/?p=10553"},"modified":"2014-09-12T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:32:13","slug":"dock-shrexpanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2014\/dock-shrexpanded\/","title":{"rendered":"This is The Dock – Shrexpanded!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well! \u00a0I am so, so proud of the amazing Dock volunteers, I can hardly put it into words! \u00a0(I’m very tired…)<\/p>\n

\"2014-09-12<\/a>They’ve taken \u00a0what could’ve been a disaster and turned it into a fantastic opportunity for a whole new chapter of the Dock story – and they’ve put in an incredible week of back-breaking work racing against the clock to get Dock Cafe open to the public again today. \u00a0Much, much love to them all.<\/p>\n

The story so far: as Life in the Titanic Quarter continues to blossom and grow, our wonderful next-door neighbours in the Mace need to expand – \"Bw9OhjaIUAACaqQ.jpg-large\"<\/a>so The Dock needs to become a wee bit more – well – wee. \u00a0(not exactly tiny – we’re still 4\/5 of our original size and surely one of the biggest cafe spaces in Belfast!)<\/p>\n

At our fantastic Sunday night service with Mairtin O’Muilleoir (more on which another time!) we cleared the tables and chairs out of that final fifth for the last time, having celebrated and given thanks for all the conversations, meetings, cuppas, laughs, friendships and blessings to take place \u00a0in that section over the years:
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