Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

Easter at Ballyhenry

30 March 2018

Easter is a very precious time for Christians around the world. This weekend we meet in Ballyhenry for our Good Friday Communion (8pm), on Easter Day for our Morning Celebration (11am), and then for a more reflective service on Sunday evening at 7pm.

Our Praise Group will be leading us in special music throughout the weekend.

Our 11am service on Sunday includes children's provision and a supervised creche,

If you are thinking of visiting with us over the weekend do be assured of a very warm welcome as we worship our crucified and risen Lord.

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Palm Sunday - 25th March

22 March 2018

This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the day when we remember Jesus' arrival into the city of Jerusalem at the beginning of Easter week.

We meet for our morning service at 11am when our theme will be 'Easter in Three Words'. Our Praise Group will be leading our music and there will be a supervised creche / children's provision and teenage Bible Class as usual.

After the service this week we have a short 'Annual Congregational Meeting'.

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This Sunday - 18th March

16 March 2018

This Sunday we meet in Ballyhenry for our morning service at 11am and for our evening service at 7pm.

In the morning we come to the final part of the story of Solomon. Our title this week (based on 1 Kings 11) is 'Solomon's Crash' - a sobering account of how Solomon's life ended in a tragic decline. We'll be teasing out lessons from this and seeing how this story fits into to the overall 'big story' that the Bible tells.

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This Sunday - 11th March

9 March 2018

This week we meet in Ballyhenry at 11am and 7pm. At our morning service Niall is due to speak on the next part of our series on the life and times of Solomon - looking this week at 1 Kings 9-10. (Morning service as usual has a full children's provision and supervised creche).

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This Sunday - 4th March

2 March 2018

This coming Sunday we meet in Ballyhenry at 11am and 7pm.

Our 11am service will include a focus on 'Serving the Persecuted Church' with one of our own members (Susan Reid) giving the main talk. We also have a supervised creche, full children's provision and teenage Bible Class at this service.

Then at 7pm we have March's 'Prayer Central'. This monthly gathering gives us a great opportunity to pause, pray together and 'reset' at the beginning of a new month, acknowledging our reliance on the Lord and looking to Him for all that we need.

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