Occasional comment, news and reports from Moira Baptist
Light Night
Light Night
What an astonishing evening we had with 356 in attendance at our Light Night on 31st October 2025!
The evening was packed with activities throughout the church buildings. These included pumpkin ring toss, firework painting, pumpkin painting, games, conquer & chopsticks, apple & chocolate dipping, balloon modelling and bouncy castles to name a few. Outside we had hot chocolate, s’mores and an ice cream van.
Peter Bittle led a 10 minute epilogue and we finished with a fireworks display by Emerald Fireworks. Each child took home a Bag of Hope.
We were truly blessed in having such huge numbers attending but also in the weather as the last person left it just started to rain. An amazing answer to prayer considering the weather earlier in the day.
We say a huge word of thanks to all the volunteers who worked to prepare the building and tidy up, helped directly with children and parents, and worked behind the scenes to make the night possible. Your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
We are so thankful to God for his providence in it all. He clearly showed his blessing on the night. We continue to pray that the seed sown will be fruitful for God’s glory.
Paul Deering
Another baptismal service
On Sunday 11th May 2025 we had our second service this year of believer's baptism. Six people of varied ages testified of God's grace in their lives and their desire to publicly profess Christ as he commanded by being baptised. It was fascinating to listen to their...
What a di-llama!
On 23rd March 2025 we enjoyed our annual soup lunch, supporting this year’s Sunday School project “What a di-llama - we need some bricks!” This is the 2025 Baptist Youth project supporting Baptist Missions in Peru and we are raising money to buy bricks for Peru to...
Jesus is alive
On Easter Sunday at 7am a large crowd of around 150 met in Moira Demesne to greet the sunrise and give thanks for the resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead. All of the local churches were represented and took part in the service with Pastor Jonny Dodds of...
Recognition Service
It was a real blessing on Sunday evening past to formally recognise the installation of two new elders. Adam Patton as an elder and Jonathan Dodds as elder and assistant pastor. We thank God for calling them and for them both responding positively to that call....
Pastors and elders
How gracious God is to our church, giving us Godly men to serve as leaders. On Wednesday 13th November 2024 the church met for a special members’ meeting and the church elected a new elder, an assistant Pastor and four new deacons. Please pray for Adam Patton and...
Mission24
Mission24 was an evangelistic mission lasting 8 evenings from 6th October to 13th. Our preacher at 7 of the evenings was Pastor Andrew Campbell from Ballykeel Baptist Church. Youth night on Saturday 12th was taken by Danny Roberts. Each evening we heard from an...