Mullingar Presbyterian Church

What's on :

Everyone is welcome to attend our services. 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.

Our next Sunday service will be at 11.30am as usual on Sunday 24th May. You are welcome to join us as always. AS usual, it will be an all-ages service and everyone is welcome. There is a Sunday Club for young people who attend primary school where they learn Bible stories through fun activities and songs. The creche room is for families with very young children where they can still hear and see the service. 

There is a prayer room in the church and if there is something in particular you would like to have included in our prayers, please leave a little note in the prayer box which is in it. There are bible verses and inspirational quotes and pictures as prompts for prayers. This is a quiet space for prayer. If you would like someone to pray with you, please ask Wallace. We will be having a Prayer Time in this prayer space on Tuesday 19th May at 7.30pm and you are welcome to join us.

Oodles & Doodles is for pre-schoolers and their carers. It is on every Wednesday (during school term time) including Wednesday 20th May from 10.30am - 12.00pm. There are toys to play with and snacks to eat. For the parents and carers, there is time to meet new people and chat. It's free! Everyone is welcome. Looking forward to seeing you there.

We have a podcast called Gospel Roots availablewhere ever you get your podcasts but this is a link to download it here. To read about recent and up-coming events, please read our most recent newsletter by clicking here

Our next Bible Study is on Tuesday 26th May. Everyone is welcome to come. It will be very informal. If you are interested in 'developing a heart for God' or just learning more about Christianity, you would be welcome to join us.

We are organising a visit to Turoe Pet Farm for people from the congregation and Oodles & Doodles on Saturday 6th June. There are attractions for all age groups, so everyone is welcome. If you would like to come, please get in contact so that we can plan including booking a suitable bus. We will be joining up with people from the Tullamore and Galway congregations. 

Grounded Youth for our teenagers is finished for the summer. Keep in contact for information about when it start again. There will be activities for the teenagers in the evenings during the week 20th - 24th July when our Holiday Bible Club for younger children is taking place in the mornings. More details will be available soon so keep in touch. We look forward to welcoming a team from Buckna Presbyterian Church, Co. Antrim who will be joining us with this camp.

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. As a church and with our children's Sunday Club we 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 recent 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. Some members of the congregation are currently doing a train-the-trainer course with Compassion to be able to run courses to help people organise their finances. Please keep this in your prayers. 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:

As a congregation, we enjoy spending time with each other socially as well as during worship time. 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. On Easter Sunday afternoon, we had a lovely walk around Fore Abbey, followed by refreshments in Fore Abbey Coffee Shop. Our annual BBQ took place with our sister congregation in Corboy on 21st June.  We really enjoyed some relaxed and tasty fellowship! Following the service on Sunday 29th June we shared a lovely lunch together.

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 from the North 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.