Moira Baptist history
Church history - the early years
Read the history of Moira Baptist Church 1987-2007
1986 floral display in Moira
Moira in Bloom in 1986
Baptist Missions Church planting team 1986
l/r David Whitmarsh, Jim Henry, Stanley Black, Cecil Johnston.
Moira outreach 1986
Derek Baxter and Jim Henry
Team members
Winston Jordan with Cecil Johnston
The tent in Moira demesne
Jim, David and Stanley
Jim Henry Baptist Missions
Jim Henry preaching in the tent in Moira Demesne
Stanley Black
Stanley Black at Moira tent mission 1986
Moira tent mission 1986
David and Alison
Church formation
Foundation members and friends
Platform party at the foundation service
Pastors McBratney, Grant, Henry, Smyth, Birnie and Baxter
Sadie Andrews with Jim Henry
Sadie was the first convert.
Signing the constitution
Only the one on the left still belongs to Moira Baptist
Meetings were held in homes at the beginning
early meeting of Moira Baptist folk
Erecting the portable hall on the present church site.
Our new meeting place
Sadie’s Baptism
with Derek Baxter
The portable hall
The main meeting room.
Moira church outing
Outing to Millisle circa 1989
Portable Hall opening
Office bearers at Moira Baptist
The Portable hall
Photo taken while the present building was under construction
Building foundations circa 1993
Moira Baptist construction begins
Steelwork erected
steelwork at Moira Baptist
Building under construction
View from what would become the balcony
Interior scaffolding
The building begins to rise
Under construction
Ernie Condy with some representatives of the Association
Aerial view
The photo shows the original building before the hall extension.
The late Ernie Condy
with the communion table he made and the pulpit he built. In fact he had his hands on most of the wood in the building.
Saying goodbye to the old portacabin
Another church will get to use it.
The new building
Taken from the roof of the portable hall. Only the back hall was in use until the main building was completed in 1997
Church aerial view
In a village where the harvest is ripe
Second Pastor’s Induction in 1995
Front: Maynard Mawhinney (Elder), David and Joanna McFarland, Adrian Patterson (Elder) Back: deacons Ronnie Baxter, Norman Crowe, Ted Gilpin, Peter Smyth, Fred Gilpin
Induction of the third Pastor
Induction of the late Pastor Garnham in September 2008
Pastor Richard Garnham
Richard welcomed to Moira Baptist
Simon and Lynda Mawhinney
Simon and Lynda and family. Simon was Youth Pastor in 2015 later to become Pastor in 2018 until 2020
Alan Baird
Alan was Interim Pastor 2020-22
Mark Patterson Induction
Mark and Barbara welcomed to Moira Baptist
Mark Patterson with Jonny Dodds
Jonny Dodds Pastoral Assistant