Recent Services

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News

News

  • GB Registration Night – Thurs 3rd Sept. 6:30-7:30pm
    For girls from P1- Y14. ** Note: We are restarting our Senior and Brigader section this year ** Start night is 10th Sept 6:30-7:30pm for P1 – P7 girls and …
  • BB Registration Night
    BB registration is on Friday 11th from 7pm – 8pm for boys in P1 – P7.
  • 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 2nd September

  • 8:00 pm - Pre-communion

    Sermon on the Mount – Letting our Yes’s & No’s be Yes and No (Matthew 5:33-37).

Thursday 3rd September

  • 6:30 pm - GB Registration

Saturday 5th September

  • 8:30 am - Prayer Time - All Welcome

  • 8:00 pm - Student night 2026

    It is that time of year when a number of you are gearing up for starting (or returning) to college and university so we want to help you get started well by coming together for some food, some fun, some help/advice, some stories from those who have been studying for a while, and of course we will have our student gift packs ready to go!

Sunday 6th September

  • 11:30 am - Morning Communion Service

    Rev Mark Neilly. Comfort of all Comforts (2 Corinthians 1:1-11).

  • 6:15 pm - Evening Service in First

    Rev Mark Neilly. Peter, Power of the Resurrection (John 20:1-20).

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.

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 …

Silk Road Ministries

https://www.aimchurch.org/cambodia-myanmar-silk-road-ministries Silk Road Ministries was founded in 1997 as a registered Christian charity in the United Kingdom. The name represents a vision and desire to network with other Christian workers to …

Release International

https://releaseinternational.org We have a monthly prayer meeting for Release International and seek to support this work financially. Release International is an inter-denominational Christian ministry working through local church partners in …

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