Mullingar Presbyterian Church

What's on :

ONLY ONE DAY TO GO!!!! Our Holiday Bible Club for primary school age children this summer starts tomorrow Monday 20th July and runs all week to Friday 24th July. Click HERE for more information. It's called Compass of Truth and will be on from 10.30am-12.30pm. There will be stories and songs, quizzes, games and activities based around Bible verses and stories. Places are limited, so pre-registration is required using the QR code here. We look forward to meeting and welcoming a team from Buckna Presbyterian Church, Co. Antrim who will be helping us with this camp.

Also this week 20th - 24th July, teenagers are invited to Youth Week in the evenings from 7pm-8.30pm with activities suitable for them. Again, everyone is welcome but pre-registration is also required using the QR code here.

Our young adults group Rooted will be getting together next Saturday, 25th July at 7pm All young adults are welcome to come along for some fellowship, games and refreshments. 

If you are in the Midlands on holidays this summer, you would be welcome at any of the services at Mullingar Presbyterian Church starting at 11.30am. We'd love to meet you.

Our next Sunday service will be at 11.30am as usual on Sunday 26th July. You are welcome to join us. This service will be a Family Service aimed at the young people as the Holiday Bible Camp comes to and end but will be suitable for all ages and everyone is welcome. Sunday Club, where there is a special programme for young people to learn about Bible stories is on a break for the summer but there are colouring and puzzle sheets for them to complete during the service. 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. There are bible verses and inspirational quotes and pictures as prompts for prayers. This is a quiet space for prayer which everyone can use. If you would like someone to pray with you, please ask Wallace. 

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

Oodles & Doodles (for pre-schoolers and their carers) finished this term with a trip to Mullingar Fire Station. It will start again with the new school term in September. We look forward to seeing you then.

Our Bible Study series is also finished for the summer. Keep in contact for details of when the next series will start in autumn.

Grounded Youth for teenagers is finished for the summer. Keep in contact for information about when it start again. 

Alan McElwee from Christians Against Povertywas with us on Sunday 14th June to talk 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.

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!

Our Holiday Bible Sports Camp took place from 14th - 20th July. Salt Factory Sports ran the camp in conjunction with Mullingar Presbyterian Church and Mullingar Fellowship Church.

Mullingar Presbyterian Church hosted the Crown Jesus Ministries prayer meeting for Westmeath on 6th June as part of the 10 Days of Prayer held in the 32 counties of Ireland. 

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.