Recent Services

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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

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.

Sunday 11th October

  • 10:00 am - Sunday School Harvest Breakfast

  • 10:15 am - One-to-One

  • 11:30 am - Harvest Service

    Rev Mark Neilly

  • 6:00 pm - CONNECT In Church night

    Meet us in the foyer at 6pm and we will head into the evening service together - then afterwards we will head upstairs for some food and games until the usual end time.

  • 6:15 pm - Harvest Evening Service

    Rev Noel McClean

Monday 12th October

  • 10:15 am - First for Tots

  • 8:00 pm - PW

    Threads of Faith – hear from Mother and Daughter duos from various generations and have a peek at some special heirlooms.

Tuesday 13th 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.

  • 8:00 pm - Choir Practice

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.

Mission to Mexico

Henry Middletown Mission to Mexico was founded approximately 30 years ago when Henry visited Mexico City and began to work with street kids. We have served the Lord amongst the …

Missionaries in Poland

For many years we support a couple living in Poland who are engaged in ministry to the Syrian refugees in Poland, as well as to students, mainly from the Middle …

Wycliffe Bible Translators

https://www.wycliffe.org.uk/ Ian and Claire Gray worked as translators for over 50 years and we have supported them for many years. Ian’s main work recently had been the translation of the …

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