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News

News

  • Faithful Men
    Beginning 12th September. Join us for a journey to Biblical manhood that lasts. Open to all men. Be equipped. Be challenged. Be encouraged. Let’s grow together as men who know …

Calendar

Sunday 4th October

  • 10:15 am - Sunday School and One-to-One

  • 11:30 am - Morning Worship

    Rev Mark Neilly. Letters from Christ (2 Cor 3:1-6).

  • 6:15 pm - Harvest Service in Grange

  • 7:45 pm - Sunday CONNECT

    It's study No2 in our "Teach us to pray" series and tonight our title is 'But I feel too guilty'

Monday 5th October

  • 10:15 am - First for Tots

  • 8:00 pm - The "Short Prayer" Meeting

    Commencing tonight, the "Short Prayer" Meeting will meet on the first Monday of the month and is a time to pray for Gods work in our congregation and the surrounding area.

Tuesday 6th October

  • 3:00 pm - First for Kids

    All boys and girls (P3 -P7) are invited to come along for a healthy snack, help with homework, craft, a  Bible story, praise time and other fun activities.

  • 7:30 pm - Choir Practice

Wednesday 7th October

  • 8:00 pm - Midweek

    Speaker – Henry Middleton (Mission to Mexico).

Thursday 8th October

  • 6:15 pm - GB

    6:15pm – 7:30pm for girls in P1 – P7 (Explorers & Juniors)
    7:00pm – 8:30pm for girls in year 8-14 (Seniors & Brigaders)

Friday 9th October

  • 6:45 pm - BB

    6:45pm – 8:00pm for boys in P1 – P7

  • 8:00 pm - CONNECT Yr 8-10

    Tonight we welcome all of you who are
    in Year 8-10 for our first night back. You can find a link to our google consent form on our 1st Ahoghill youth Facebook and Instagram accounts, or simply text Steve and he can send the link.
    Please sign up before you come along! (We will see all of you who are Year 11+ the week after on 2nd Oct.)

Saturday 10th October

  • 8:00 am - Harvest Decorating

    The church will be open from 8.00am on Saturday 10th October to drop in foodstuffs and flowers. Please bring as early in the day to enable decorating. Any help for arranging goods, brushing up etc. will be greatly appreciated. Join in the fun of celebrating Harvest.

  • 8:30 am - Prayer Time - All Welcome

  • 10:00 am - Autumn tidy-up of church grounds

    We would appreciate as much help as possible to clear leaves, weeds and debris. As usual please bring your own tools.

CONNECT

Connect is our umbrella for all youth organisations. It consists of 3 tracks: Connect for Young Adults (18+), Connect for Kids (the umbrella group for Sunday School, Explorers, Junior GB, Anchor Boys and Junior BB) and Connect for Youth (Y8 and up). Check out our Connect Page for further details.

Missions

We support a number of missions both locally and further afield. A selection of them can be seen below. Press the Further Mission Details for details of all the missionary organisations we support.

The Bible Society, Northern Ireland

https://biblesocietyni.co.uk/ The vision of The Bible Society is to reach everyone with God’s Word in a language and format they can access and afford, so that each person might experience …

Platform 67

https://www.platform67.org/about.html A platform is simply a stage from which to proclaim your message – loudly and clearly! We work from the premise that a congregation that is informed and educated about the …

PCI Global Mission

 www.presbyterianireland.org/Mission/Global-Mission The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has been engaged in mission overseas since it was established in 1840. Today PCI has partnership links with indigenous churches, Christian institutions and international …

Further Mission Details

About Us

Our church

1st Ahoghill is a vibrant, Bible-based, warm and welcoming church right in the heart of County Antrim, led by our minister Rev Mark Neilly.


Sunday morning worship is at 11:30, and Sunday evening worship is at 6:15 alternating between us, Trinity, Brookside and the Grange. We also meet for bible study and prayer on Wednesdays at 8pm. Sunday school meets between 10:15 and 11:15 on Sunday mornings. All our services can be viewed on YouTube.

Our History

Our History

First Presbyterian Church, Ahoghill

Little is known about Presbyterians in Ahoghill until October 1654 when a group of Presbyterians were supplied with sermons from Antrim where Presbyterian ministers, who came across from Scotland, had been working for periods of six months at a time.   The people of Ahoghill then sought permission to elect elders and this was carried out in 1657.  Their first minister, Mr John Shaw from Scotland, was called and ordained on the 30th June 1658.


First Presbyterian Church Ahoghill was established – the small group of people had organised themselves into a congregation, elders were elected and a minister was installed. This young congregation in Ahoghill began to grow in size and presumably built their own meeting house for worship. As the people in 1658 were poor and living in houses built with mud walls and thatch roofs, it is to be expected that their meeting house would also be made in like fashion.


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Get in touch

if you would like any further information please do not hesitate to contact us.



First Presbyterian Church Ahoghill

276 Galgorm Rd,
Ahoghill,
County Antrim,
Northern Ireland,
BT42 1HY
neil@firstahoghill.co.uk