Mullingar Presbyterian Church

What's on :

Everyone is welcome at our services. Our next Sunday service will be on Sunday 13th September at 11.30am as usual. As always, this service will be a family service suitable for all ages and everyone is welcome. During the service, we have a Sunday Club programme for young people to learn about Bible stories, through stories, puzzle sheets and even Lego!  The creche room is for families with very young children where they can still hear and see the service. 

If there is something in particular you would like to have included in our prayers, please leave a little note in the prayer box in the prayer room or contact us through this website or our Facebook page. In the prayer room, there are bible verses and inspirational quotes and pictures as prompts for prayers. It is a quiet space for prayer which everyone can use. If you would like someone to pray with you, that can be arranged. Please contact us or ask Wallace. 

Oodles & Doodles will start again this Wednesday, 9th September. There are toys to play with for pre-schoolers and their carers can get to know new people in the area. There are songs and refreshments for everyone. It's from 10.30am - 12pm each Wednesday during school term time. Everyone is welcome.  

Grounded Youth for teenagers (6th class to 6th year) will start again this Friday, 11th September from 7-9pm. Teenagers from Mullingar Presbyterian Church join with their friends from All Saints' Church of Ireland and Mullingar Fellowship Church. This first get together will be in All Saints in Church Avenue. Please use the QR code here to register.

Dates for your diary:

We will be hosting a Men's Breakfast on Saturday 19th September from 10.30am - 1.00pm. Everyone is welcome to this relaxed time with food, games and fellowship with Andy Lamberton from Legacy Fathers. Please register using this link or the qr code below.

If you are attending the National Ploughing Championships near Tullamore from 15th-17th September, please call into the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's tent. There will be somewhere to sit down and chat and have some refreshments.

We have a podcast called Gospel Roots available where ever you get your podcasts but this is a link to download it here. Episodes are also now available on our YouTube Channel. To read about recent and up-coming events, please read our most recent newsletter by clicking here

Our Bible Study series is also on a break. Keep in contact for details of when the next series will start in autumn.

What a great week we had from 20th-24th July when we held our Holiday Bible Club and Youth Week. It was called The Compass of Truth. We were delighted that a team from Buckna Presbyterian Church, Co. Antrim helped us with these and we enjoyed getting to know them. If you would like to see what we were doing, click here. We hope that all the children and teenagers who attended during the week enjoyed the games and activities, songs, quizzes and memory verses based on Bible stories. Keep in touch in September for details of when our programmes for young people starts up again.

Alan McElwee from Christians Against Poverty was with us on Sunday 14th June to talk again about the work of this charity. He presented certificates to some of the congregation who have been doing training to help people with money management. They will be organising a pilot money management course soon,

On Sunday 12th April, as part of our church mission, Olga Mallarkey spoke to us about the work of the organisation Compassion. Founded in 1952, Compassion is a Christian child development charity releasing children from poverty, in Jesus' name. More information can be found here. As a church, we will be pairing with Compassion and their work with children. The church and our children's Sunday Club will be sponsoring a boy from Brazil called Jhonata. We look forward to getting to know him. Please pray for this mission work and keep in contact for further details.

Donations:

Following a visit from Alan McElwee, we recently collected donations for Christians Against Poverty. More information about this organisation can be found here. Thank you to everyone who donated. Throughout the month of November 2025, we had a special collection for the Presbyterian Children's Society. The offering at the Carol Service in December was for Mullingar St. Vincent de Paul. Thank you to Martin, the President of the Mullingar branch who collected the donation and outlined the work of the organisation. The offering on Christmas morning went towards the Presbyterian church's World Development Appeal. Thank you for your generosity giving to these charities.

Past events:

Our service for Sunday 15th February was recorded and shown on the RTE One tv programme Sunday Worship. It can be seen on the RTE Player here. We hope you enjoy it.

As a congregation, we enjoy spending time with each other socially as well as during worship time. Our annual BBQ with our sister church (Corboy, Co. Longford) took place on Saturday 27th June. Thank you to everyone who came to this lovely evening . It was great to catch up with you. We organised a visit to Turoe Pet Farm for people from the congregation and Oodles & Doodles in June. It was lovely to join with people from the Tullamore and Galway congregations. On Easter Sunday, some of the congregation met up at Tullynally Castle for a walk in the beautiful grounds followed by lovely refreshments in the tea rooms. We held an all-age Céilí evening with refreshments and an epilogue about the work of Patrick in Ireland on Saturday 14th March. In the run up to Christmas, Grounded Youth (for teenagers) went ice skating and Rooted (for young adults) went bowling. The ladies and girls had a lovely lunch together and the men got together for a Big Legacy Breakfast. With lots of new people coming to church, these events are a chance to get to know each other and to have some informal fellowship. We look forward to the next time!

In March, we thanked God and celebrated the 10th anniversary of the opening of this church building on March 7th 2015. We had some nice fellowship with a lovely shared lunch after the service. We went to see the film Bonhoeffer in March. 

Saturday, 11th January 2025 was a special day in the life Wallace Moore and his family and the congregations of Corboy and Mullingar churches. His service of Ordination, Installation and Induction to the congregations of Corboy and Mullingar was a warm and welcoming occasion. It was lovely to see everyone who travelled to support Wallace and Jane and everyone from the Mullingar, Edgeworthstown and Longford areas. Thank you to everyone who took part in the service making it so special.

Please keep our minister Wallace, his wife Jane and the congregations of Corboy and Mullingar in your prayers.