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Church Record October 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
ANTRIM, FIRST: Samuel McCormick, Peter McFetridge, Ryan McKeown
Died:
BALLYMENA, HIGH KIRK: Harold Smyth
RANDALSTOWN, O.C.: Charles Hall Stewart
THE MINISTRY
Ordained and Installed:
Mark Haugh, as Minister of Waringstown on 8 September 2023
Resigned:
Aaron Ditty, as Minister of Scrabo on 8 August 2023
Philip Cleland, as Minister of Drumgooland and Kilkinamurry on 31 August 2023
Richard Patton, as Minister of Boardmills, Trinity on 3 September 2023
Stephen Richmond, as Minister of Donegal Town and Stranorlar on 7 September 2023
Retired:
David Henry, as Minister of Lurgan, First on 10 September 2023
John Kirkpatrick, as Minister of Portrush on 31 August 2023
Stephen Williamson, as Minister of Ballywillan on 31 August 2023
Died:
David Neville Gray, Minister Emeritus of Portaferry on 5 August 2023
Church Record September 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
DONACLONEY: Wayne Buttery, Brian Turkington
HILL STREET, LURGAN: Glenn Barbour, David McReynolds
JERRETTSPASS: Ian Copeland, Andy McComb
KINGSMILLS: Andy Cartmill, David Ferris, Kenneth Herron
Installed:
HILL STREET, LURGAN: Lewis Porter
Died:
DONAGHEADY: Ian Donnell
NEWTOWNCUNNINGHAM: Ian Edwards
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Stephen Cairns, by North Belfast Presbytery on 25 June 2023
Matthew Houston, by Ballymena Presbytery on 18 June 2023
Joshua McCance, by Dublin and Munster Presbytery on 18 June 2023
Scott McMenemy, by Armagh Presbytery on 11 June 2023
Graeme Read, by Omagh Presbytery on 2 July 2023
Ordained and Installed:
Samuel Bostock, as Minister of First Saintfield on 27 June 2023
John McCracken, as Minister of Lowe Memorial on 18 June 2023
Installed:
Ashley Graham, as Minister of Union Road, Magherafelt and Lecumpher on 16 June 2023
William Harkness, as Minister of Belmont on 15 June 2023
Resigned:
Ashley Graham, as Minister of Banagher on 15 June 2023
William Harkness, as Minister of Great Victoria Street on 14 June 2023
Retired:
Colin Morrison, as Minister of Eglington on 30 June 2023
Died:
David Henry (Harry) Allen, Minister Emeritus of New Row, Coleraine on 21 June 2023
John Maddock, Minister Emeritus of Carryduff, Belfast on 15 July 2023
Church Record July/August 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
BALLYDOWN: John Campbell
CRAIGY HILL: Simon McFaul, Brian Lewis, Graham Warnock
FINTONA: Caroline Elizabeth Crawford
Died:
BALLINA: Couser Petrie
BALLYALBANY: Ruth Moffett
CAIRNALBANA: Albert Davison
NEWTOWNSTEWART: Arthur W. Dunbar
FIRST OMAGH: Brian Wilson
THE MINISTRY
Installed:
Clarke Deering, as Minister of Dun Laoghaire on 19 May 2023
Martin Gray, as Minister of Knock on 2 June 2023
Resigned:
Clarke Deering, as Minister of Ballynahatty, Creevan, Fintona on 18 May 2023
Martin Gray, as Minister of Ravenhill on 1 June 2023
Church Record June 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Installed:
CHRISTCHURCH, DUNDONALD: Heather Coard, David Munster
Died:
BALLYLINNEY: David Williamson
BUSHMILLS: Alex Creith
SECOND COMBER: Thomas James (Tom) Parker
GRANSHAW: David Lindsay
GREYSTONE ROAD: George Lynn
HARMONY HILL: Jeannie Green, William Hull
HIGH KIRK, BALLYMENA: William Henry
KILMORE: James Alistair Cairns
NEWTOWNBREDA: Pearl Young
WARINGSTOWN: Gilbert Crook
THE MINISTRY
Inducted:
Rev Dr Colin Dickson, as Moderator’s Assistant on 1 May 2023
Installed:
Rev Emerson McDowell, as Minister of First Ballymena on 21 April 2023
Rev Philip McKelvey, as Minister of Toberkeigh and Ramoan on 28 April 2023
Resigned:
Rev Dr Colin Dickson, as Associate Minister of Bangor West on 30 April 2023
Rev Emerson McDowell, as Minister of Ballylinney on 20 April 2023
Rev Philip McKelvey, as Minister of Loughgall and Tartaraghan on 27 April 2023
Retired:
Rev Christina U.R. Bradley, as Minister of Armagh Road, Portadown on 31 March 2023
Church Record May 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
BALLYNAHINCH, FIRST: Ann Armstrong, Joanne McFadzean
NEWTOWNCUNNINGHAM: Louise Hamilton, Michael Roulston
RAMELTON: John Birney Stewart
RAY: Clive Johnston, Christine McElhinney
Died:
BAILIEBOROUGH, TRINITY: Ronald Clarke
BALLYCAIRN: Rosaline Ruffle
BALLYMENA, FIRST: Samuel Wilson
BUCKNA: Robert Grahame Robinson
BUSHMILLS: Billy Chambers
CULNADY: Alan McGinnis
DRUM: John Stewart
HILLSBOROUGH: William Marshall McMaster
EGLISH: Eakin Kyle
KNOWHEAD: Robert Ross (Robin) Mackey
NEWCASTLE: Brownlow McClean
MAGHERAMASON: Lorna McNeely
SCARVA STREET: Frank Hodgen
WOODBURN: Thomas Weatherup
THE MINISTRY
Installed:
Jonathan McKane, as Minister of New Row, Coleraine on 24th March 2023
Anne Tolland, as Minister of Regent Street, Newtownards on 31st March 2023
Resigned:
Jonathan McKane, as Minister of 1st Dromore on 23rd March 2023
Raymond McKibbin, as Minister of Glascar and Donaghmore on 10th March 2023
Anne Tolland, as Minister of Newtownbreda on 30th March 2023
Church Record April 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
AUGHENTAINE: Valerie Edith Adams, Lorraine Bleakley, Stephen Thomas Erskine
BALLYCLARE: Norma Adams, Sheelagh Dalton, Chris Dickey, Gareth Harding, Ian Holmes, Adele Irwin, Zoe Lutton
FIRST LARNE: Beth Alexander, Mary Magill, Heather Murray, Kathryn Swann, Shirley Torbitt
LEGACURRY: Michael Davidson, Alan Little OBE, Jacqueline Pickering, David Smyth
MOIRA: Matthew Blain, Stuart McIlwaine, Andrew Preston
RAPHOE & BALLINDRAIT: Rodney Bates, William Bell, Audrey Clarke, Jacqueline Hunter, Victor Kilpatrick, Alan Macbeth
Installed:
MOIRA: Allen Gamble
Died:
ANTRIM, FIRST: Robert Ivan Stockdale
BALLEE: Robert McCullough
BALLYDOWN: John Brown
BUCKNA: John Robinson
CARRYDUFF: Albert Morrell Murphy
COOTEHILL: Robert McCrea
DRUMREAGH: Westley Eakin
GILLYGOOLEY: Gerald McCauley
NEWTOWNBREDA: George Turkington
PORTADOWN, FIRST: Bill Burnett
PORTADOWN, ARMAGH ROAD: Ivan Stirling
RAILWAY STREET: Victor Hutchinson, Leonard Murray
SAINTFIELD, FIRST: Samuel Robert Gerald Massey
SIXMILECROSS: William Philip Kerr
SLOAN STREET: Jim McDowell
ST. JAMES’ S BALLYMONEY: David Fleming
TRINITY, BOARDMILLS: James Crothers
TULLYCARNET: Tommy Addis
WESTBOURNE: Robert Tinney
Church Record March 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
ELMWOOD: Lorraine Bell, Julie Murdock, Robin Walsh
ENNISKILLEN: Clive David Morrow
Died:
GREYSTONE ROAD (ANTRIM): Samuel Magee
OC RANDALSTOWN: David Selbert-Rainey
THE MINISTRY
Installed:
James Rogers, as Minister of Ballygrainey, on 3 February 2023
John Stanbridge, as Minister of Joymount, on 3 February 2023
Resigned:
James Rogers, as Minister of Ballynure, on 2 February 2023
John Stanbridge, as Minister of Ballycastle and Croaghmore, on 2 February 2023
Retired:
David Cupples, as Minister of Enniskillen, on 31 January 2023
Died:
Robert Neville Brown, Minister Emeritus, Former Lecturer at Stranmillis College, on 10 January 2023
Thomas James (Jim) Hagan, Minister Emeritus of Donacloney, on 20 January 2023
Church Record February 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
BALLYCASTLE: Valerie Sykes, Paul Hayes
CREMORE: David McKee, Samuel Gilmore
ORANGEFIELD: Naomi Campbell, James Cummings, Gavin Doherty, Hannah Elliott, Sarah McCullough, Peter Shields
REDROCK: Colin Dougan
Died:
BUCKNA: Paddy Cruickshank, John Robinson
CHRISTCHURCH, DUNDONALD: Jackie Haggan
EGLISH: William James (Jim) Long
FINVOY: James Beattie
MALONE: Norman Allen
McQUISTON MEMORIAL: Jim Hunter
MOSSIDE: Edwin Getty
TOBERDONEY: James McCandless
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Mark Frederick Hawthorne, by the Presbytery of Armagh, on 11 November 2022
Ordained and Installed:
James O’Neill, as Minister of Carland and Newmills, on 14 December 2022
Retired:
David Bruce, as Council Secretary of Mission in Ireland, on 12 November 2022
Nancy Cubitt, as Minister of Bushmills, on 31 December 2022
Died:
William John Paul Bailie, Specified Ministry – Mission Africa, on 15 November 2022
David Chapman, Minister Emeritus of Second Islandmagee, on 15 November 2022
James Fleming Barnes, Minister Emeritus of May Street, on 1 January 2023
Church Record December 2022 / January 2023
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
CLONTIBRET: Evelyn Boyd, christopher Gray
DOUGLAS: Maurice Andrew Hunter, David Craig Millar
KILBRIDE: David Annett, Christine Craig, Marc McCallion, Philip McMaster, DeniseMilligan, Maureen Stirling
Died:
BALLYARNETT: Evelyn Peoples
BALLYEASTON, FIRST: Ian Alexander Davidson
BALLYMENA, WEST CHURCH: David Andrews McIlroy
BUSHMILLS: William Mitchell
CARNDONAGH: John Cunningham
COOKE CENTENARY: Elizabeth Reid
CREMORE: Robert Haire
CUMBER, UPPER: William (Billy) Alexander Witherow
DONACLONEY: Donald Bickerstaff
DRUMREAGH: Alex Pyper
GLENWHERRY: James Owens
LOANENDS: Norman White
LOUGHBRICKLAND: John (Jack) Shannon
MCQUISTON MEMORIAL: Ewla Ferguson
TRINITY, BALLYMONEY: Victor McLean
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Martin Joseph Delaney, by the Presbytery of Ballymena, on 16 October 2022
Andrew Frazer, by the Presbytery of Ards, on 9 October 2022
Stephen Gaston, by the Presbytery of North Belfast, on 30 October 2022
Jeffrey Murray Gawn, by the Presbytery of Omagh, on 22 October 2022
Stephen Kerr, by the Presbytery of Dromore, on 30 October 2022
Andrew Martin, by the Presbytery of Dromore, on 23 October 2022
Wallace Moore, by the Presbytery of Ards, on 16 October 2022
Installed:
Trevor David Kane, as Minister of Glenwherry, on 21 October 2022
Nigel Darren Craig, as QUB, SUC, UTC Chaplain, on 11 November 2022
Gary William Montgomery Glasgow, as Minister of First Kilraughts and Armoy, on 25 November 2022
Robert Nethery Orr, as Minister of Leckpatrick and Donagheady, on 1 December 2022
Resigned:
Gary William Montgomery Glasgow, as Minister of Gardenmore, on 24 November 2022
Robert Nethery Orr, as Minister of First Castlederg and Killeter, on 30 November 2022
Retired:
Charles Fredric David Clements, as Minister of Second Castlederg and Urney, on 29 October 2022
Peter Purvis Campbell, as Minister of Rathgar - Christ Church, on 31 October 2022
Church Record November 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
DRUMINNIS: William Dunne, Sam Bingham
GARRYDUFF: Robert Hugh Cunningham
MARKETHILL, FIRST & SECOND: Ronnie Totten
MOSSIDE: Ian Black, Kathryn Jayne Stewart, David Rowe
TOBERDONEY: Gordon Edward Veener
Died:
AHOGHILL, BROOKSIDE: William Laverty, John Montgomery
BALLYKEEL: Desi Montgomery
BALLYMENA, WELLINGTON: Andrew Caves, James McKeown
BANBRIDGE, SCARVA STREET: Robert (Bertie) Livingstone
CARRICKFERGUS, FIRST: Andrew Woodside
CASTLEREAGH: Wilson Moore
CASTLEWELLAN: Desmond Wilson
CONNOR: Fred Strain
DERRY, FIRST: Robert (Bobbie) George Little
DUNDONALD, CHRIST CHURCH: Jack Cooper
EDENGROVE: William Henry (Harry) Pickering, William James (Billy) Smith
KELLS (Co Antrim): James McCord Wylie
LISSARA: Thora Kennedy
LISBURN, FIRST: Ian Rutledge
MAGHERALLY: William Montgomery
MONREAGH: Helen Martha Roulston
RASHARKIN: John Finlay
STRABANE: Malcolm Mutch
WHITEHEAD: Lyn MacDonald
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Paul Bradley, by the Presbytery of Ards, on 18 September 2022
Thomas Andrew Robin Moore, by the Presbytery of Down, on 25 September 2022
Mark Robert Thomas Rodgers, by the Presbytery of Ballymena, on 25 September 2022
James Neil Stewart, by the Presbytery of East Belfast, on 2 October 2022
Ordained and Installed:
David Morrison, as Minister of Killead and Loanends, on 9 September 2022
Installed:
Thomas David Hagan, as Minister of First Castleblayney, Frankford & Corvally, on 30 September 2022
Resigned:
Thomas David Hagan, as Minister of Clontibret & Middletown, on 29 September 2022
Retired:
Jack Lamb, as Minister of Townsend Street, on 16 September 2022
Died:
Rev Dr James Frazer, Minister Emeritus of Ballywillan, on 1 October 2022
Church Record October 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
LISLOONEY: Tom Taylor
THE MINISTRY
Ordained and Installed:
Christopher Wilson, as Minister of Greystone Road, Antrim, on 2 September 2022
Installed:
Enrique Tagle Aguiar, as Minister of Mountpottinger, on 4 September 2022
Jeffrey Thomas Blue, as Minister of Second Broughshane, on 17 August 2022
Stuart Neil Hawthorne, as Minister of Carnmoney, on 2 September 2022
Craig Munro Wilson, as Minister of Burt and Inch, on 2 September 2022
Installed and Inducted:
David Thomas Moore, as Minister in Special Work in West Belfast, in 1 September 2022
Resigned:
Jeffrey Thomas Blue, as Minister of Rasharkin, on 16 August 2022
Stuart Neil Hawthorne, as Minister of Waringstown, on 1 September 2022
David Thomas Moore, as Minister of Knock, on 31 August 2022
Church Record September 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
COMBER, FIRST: Matthew Jamison, Richard Nelson, Mrs Amanda Pollock, Mrs Claire Sherlock, Mrs Margaret White, Trevor White, Trevor Wilson
KILBRIDE: David Annett, Christine Craig, Marc McCallion, Philip McMaster, Denise Milligan, Maureen Stirling MOUNTJOY: Karen Ballantine, Paul Alexander Colhoun, Richard John McAskie
WOODLANDS: Jonathan Addis, Brian Allen, Peter Drysdale, Richard Gibson, Nathan McConnell, Andrew McCorkell, Jonathan Parkes
Died:
ATHY: Doris Maxwell
KILLYLEAGH: Anna Georgina (Zena) McAllister
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Keith Derek McIlroy, by the Ballymena Presbytery, on 19 June 2022
Installed:
Stephen McNie, as Minister of Muckamore, on 17 June 2022
Jonathan Edward Sloan, as Minister of Moneymore First and Second, on 30 June 2022
Retired:
Robert Beggs, as Minister of McQuiston Memorial, on 31 July 2022
Anthony Daniel Davidson, as Minister of First Armagh, on 31 July 2022
Resigned:
Stephen McNie, as Minister of Ballyalbany & Glennan, on 16 June 2022
Jonathan Edward Sloan, as Minister of OC Randalstown, on 29 June 2022
David John Steele, as Minister of Dundrod, on 27 June 2022
Died:
Rev Kenneth James Caldwell McConnell, Minister Emeritus of Dunfanaghy & Carrigart, on 29 May 2022
Rev Dr William O’Neill, Minister Emeritus of Howth and Malahide, on 30 June 2022
Very Rev Dr Andrew Rutherford Rodgers, Minister Emeritus of Dungannon, on 29 June 2022
Church Record July/August 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
AUGHNACLOY: David Samuel Bell, Paul Roland McClean, Edgar Leslie Mullan
BALLYMAGRANE: Nigel William John Robinson, David Wilson
BESSBROOK: Robert Carthill, James Neagle
GARNERVILLE: Richard Cherry, Ossie McClean, Greig Mentiplay, Heather Woods
LOUGHBRICKLAND: Robert Baird, Caroline Ledlie, Edgar Patterson
PORTADOWN, ARMAGH ROAD: Irene Bowman, Dawn Conner, Nigel Conner, Ruth Stirling
SESKINORE: Margaret Joyce McCracken, Robert James Riddell, Shirley Anne Riddell
Installed:
GARNERVILLE: Annette Wright
Died:
BALLYMENA, FIRST: James McDowell
GILLYGOOLEY: Beverley Fleming
RAVENHILL: Don Kerr, Kirker Walker, Harry McKinney
THE MINISTRY
Ordained and Installed:
Robert William McFaul, as Minister of Clogherney & Sixmilecross, on 20 May 2022
Installed:
David Joseph Gray, as Minister of Cooke Centenary, on 15 May 2022
Resigned:
James Robert Burnett, as Minister of Lowe Memorial, on 29 May 2022
David Joseph Gray, as QUB, SUC & UTC Chaplain, on 14 May 2022
Church Record June 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
ARMAGH, FIRST: James Boyd, Heather Stevenson
BALLYRASHANE: Jim Boyd, Samuel Steele, Thomas Steele
BOARDMILLS, TRINITY: Simon Ross Irvine, Mervyn David Samuel McKeown, Iain Kennedy Watters
BOVEEDY: William K. Gordon
CASTLEROCK: Alma Andrews, James Hughes
CLOUGHWATER: David Galbraith, Andrew Mauger, Stephen Simpson
COLERAINE, FIRST: Liz Dowey, Jonathan Hamill, Norman Hamill, Carol McCaw
COLERAINE, TERRACE ROW: John Andrew James Millen, Samuel James Peter Semple
DRUMHILLERY: Ashley Mitchell
GARVAGH, FIRST: Drew Gurney
GARVAGH, MAIN STREET: Stephen Dinsmore, Brian King Farlow, Alan Trevor Thomas Wright
KILLAIG: Kenneth Ross Wilson McIntyre, Robert Douglas Alvin Morrow, Gary Taylor Watson
KILREA, FIRST: Nigel Toye
MONEYDIG: Alan McAleese
Installed:
ARMAGH, FIRST: Ruth McCann
Died:
BANBRIDGE, SCARVA STREET: Peggy Donaldson
CARRYDUFF: Eric Dobbin
DRUM: Herbert Hall
DRUMBO: Leslie Hamilton
FISHERWICK: Roy Suitor
GARVAGHY: George Mitchell, Brian Corbett
HILLSBOROUGH: Bridget Eccles
RICHHILL: Clifford McCullagh
TANDRAGEE: William Hamilton
THE MINISTRY
Ordained and Installed:
Seth Andrew Wright, as Minister of Donemana, on 8 April 2022
Ordained and Inducted:
Philip Adam Boyd, as Moderator’s Assistant, on 29 April 2022
Installed:
Jonathan Boyd, as Minister of Killyleagh, on 5 May 2022
Glen James Jordan, as Minister of Ballygomartin, on 29 April 2022
Retired:
William Sinclair, as Minister of First Ballymena, on 30 April 2022
Robert Sydney McMullan, as Minister of New Row, Coleraine, on 30 April 2022
Katherine Priode Meyer, as Minister of Christ Church, Sandymount, on 30 April 2022
Resigned:
Jonathan Boyd, as Minister of Hydepark & Lylehill, on 4 May 2022
Desmond Joseph Paul, as Minister of Crumlin, on 30 April 2022
Died:
Rev Dr Thomas Crawford Ballentine, Minister Emeritus of Grange with Craigmore, on 20 April 2022
Church Record May 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
ANNALONG: Jason Hill, Charles Martin
CALEDON: Joy Hadden
DRUMHILLERY: Caroline Hopps, Alastair Mitchell, Ivan Orr
MAZE: Annette Harte, Giles Page
Installed:
ANNALONG: Samuel McConnell
MAZE: David Morrow, Stuart Thompson
Died:
MOUNTJOY: Robert McAskie
THE MINISTRY
Ordained and Inducted:
Peter Burke, as Associate Minister of West Kirk, on 23 January 2022
Installed:
Graeme Fowles, as Minister of Shore Street, Donaghadee, on 18 March 2022
Colin William Anthony Jones, as Minister of First Derry (inc. Claremont) & Monreagh, on 25 March 2022
Resigned:
Graeme Fowles, as Minister of Kilmakee, on 17 March 2022
Colin William Anthony Jones, as Army Chaplain, on 24 March 2022
Reviewable Tenure Concluded:
William George Hamilton, as Minister of Tullycarnet, on 31 March 2022
Died:
Rev Robert Dickson Larmour, Minister Emeritus of Magheragall, on 10 March 2022
Church Record April 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
GREAT VICTORIA STREET: Karen Dawson
KELLS (Co Antrim): Roderick Frew, Sam Gibson, John Hughes
RAVENHILL: Andrew Eves, Stephen Gilliland, Joshua McCracken, Scott Monteith, Peter Scott
RICHHILL: Dessie Black, Alastair Graham, Steven Todd
Installed:
KELLS (Co Antrim): Jonathan Reid
RICHHILL: Sam Strain
Died:
ARMAGH, FIRST: Jackie Steenson
ARMAGH, THE MALL: Gordon Frazer JP
BALLYLOUGHAN: William Matthews
BALLYMENA, WEST CHURCH: George Arthur
BALLYMONEY, TRINITY: Alan Joseph Robinson
CARRICKFERGUS, FIRST: Florrie Smyth
CARRICKFERGUS, JOYMOUNT: Anne Burrows
COOKSTOWN, MOLESWORTH: Kenneth Frazer Orr Gibson
EGLISH: William James Irwin
FINVOY: James Bamford Taylor
GLENNAN: Nancy Wallace
GRANGE with CRAIGMORE: John McNeilly
GRANSHAW: Norman Walsh
GREAT VICTORIA STREET: Mena Brown
PORTADOWN, FIRST: George McClelland
PORTGLENONE, FIRST: Thomas McLeister
TOWNSEND STREET: William Leonard
URNEY: Thomas Samuel Henderson
THE MINISTRY
Inducted:
Colin Ian Dickson, as Associate in West Church Bangor, on 25 February 2022
Retired:
Joseph John Andrews, Minister of Ballee, on 28 February 2022
Church Record March 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Ordained and Installed:
GLENNAN: Alexander Waddell, Michael Wallace, Ian White
Died:
BALLYGOWAN: Samuel James Gibson, John Hanna
BALLYKELLY: Hugh Henderson
CALEDON: Joe Lawson
COMBER, SECOND: Isabella Magill
CRAIGAVON: Alex Simms
DRUMINNIS: Joe McCall
KEADY, SECOND: Wilson Giffin
LURGAN, FIRST: Bertie Cunningham
LURGAN, HILL STREET: Sydney Walker
MILFORD: Mervyn Diver
REDROCK: Stanley Cordner
THE MINISTRY
Ordained and Installed:
David Samuel Bingham, as Minister of Clough & Seaforde, on 21 January 2022
Installed:
Thomas Andrew Conway, as Minister of Second Comber, on 13 January 2022
Keith Henry Hibbert, as Minister of First Dunboe, on 14 January 2022
Graeme Jonathan Kennedy, as Minister of Kirkpatrick Memorial, on 21 January 2022
Resigned:
Thomas Andrew Conway, as Minister of Hilltown & Clonduff , on 12 January 2022
Nigel Darren Craig, as Minister of Belmont, on 31 January 2022
Keith Henry Hibbert, as Minister of Cumber & Upper Cumber, on 13 January 2022
Graeme Jonathan Kennedy, as Minister of Ballygrainey, on 20 January 2022
Died:
Rev Dr Victor Henry Ryan, Minister Emeritus of First Ballymacarrett, on 28 January 2022
Church Record February 2022
THE ELDERSHIP
Died:
BALLYMONEY, FIRST: John Michael
BELFAST, ST. ANDREW’S: John Kielty
BLOOMFIELD: Pearl Kerr
BROUGHSHANE, FIRST: Nathaniel Wright
CASTLEREAGH: Harry McDowell
CAVANALECK: George Henry Irvine
CLARE: Robert McClelland
COMBER, SECOND: Elizabeth Myrtle Murray
COOKE CENTENARY: Margaret Elizabeth McBurney
CUMBER: Dorothy Margaret Winifred Thompson
DONOUGHMORE: Jim Patterson
FANET: John Ward
FISHERWICK: Robert Carson CBE
GILNAHIRK: Robin Morrow CBE
GRANGE WITH CRAIGMORE: Maurice Black
GREAT VICTORIA STREET: Laura Henry
HOLYWOOD, HIGH STREET: Betty Morrow, Roy Houston
MAGHERAGALL: Margo Wills
McCRACKEN MEMORIAL: Leslie Hully
McQUISTON MEMORIAL: James Leslie Ross
MONEYMORE, FIRST: Isabel Janet Beatrice Miller
MOUNTPOTTINGER: Thomas Jeffrey
OMAGH, FIRST: Noel Davison
ORANGEFIELD: Margaret Kloss
RAY: John Duncan, Alistair Tinney
STRAND: William John Cairns
TYRONE’S DITCHES: James Cully
WHITEHEAD: Norman Smith
Ordained and Installed:
AHOGHILL, BROOKSIDE: Michael Arnold, Joseph Millar, Geoffrey Young, Hugh Young
FINTONA: Eric Keith Boland
MAGHERAGALL: Mark Priestley
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Billy Abwa, by the Ballymena Presbytery, on 24 October 2021
Mark Haugh, by the Armagh Presbytery, on 26 November 2021
Ordained and Installed:
Gareth Keaveney, as Minister of New Mossley, on 7 January 2022
Installed:
David Stewart Brownlow, as Minister of Derramore & Drumachose, on 26 November 2021
Samuel David Currie, as Minister of Ballysillan, on 12 December 2021
Russell James Edgar, as Minister of Kilfennan, on 17 December 2021
John Hamilton Flaherty, as Minister of First Donaghadee, on 5 November 2021
Stewart William Kells Glendinning, as Minister of Coagh, Ballygoney & Saltersland, on 3 December 2021
Craig Neil Lynn, as Minister of First Newtownards, on 10 December 2021
Laszlo Csongor Orban, as Minister of Drumlough & Anahilt, on 26 November 2021
David Mark Shaw, as Minister of Ballycrochan, on 8 January 2022
Commissioned and Inducted:
Kenneth William James Hanna, as Rural Chaplain, on 7 November 2021
Resigned:
David Stewart Brownlow, as Minister of Newmills & Carland, on 25 November 2021
Samuel David Currie, as Associate Minister of Knock, on 11 December 2021
Russell James Edgar, as Minister of Ballyroney & Drumlee, on 16 December 2021
Kenneth William James Hanna, as Minister of Second Dromara, on 6 November 2021
David Jonathan Hyndman, as Minister of Spa & Magherahamlet, on 31 December 2021
Craig Neil Lynn, as Minister of Rathcoole, on 9 December 2021
David Mark Shaw, as Minister of Strabane & Sion Mills, on 7 January 2022
Retired:
Noel McClean, as Minister of First Kilraughts, on 31 October 2021
Stanley Stewart, as Minister of Castlerock, on 31 December 2021
Died:
Rev Dr Robert John Gordon Gray, Minister Emeritus of First Lisburn, on 15 December 2021
Rev Thomas Irvine Harte, Minister Emeritus of Trinity Boardmills, on 16 November 2021
Very Rev Dr Samuel Hutchinson, Clerk of the General Assembly Emeritus, on 19 November 2021
Rev Norman Rayner McCormick, Minister Emeritus of Ballygawley & Ballyreagh, on 7 November 2021
Church Record October 2021
THE ELDERSHIP
Died:
AHOGHILL, FIRST: Dessie McKay
BALLYGOWAN: William Kerr McLernon Gibson
BALLYMENA, HARRYVILLE: William McKnight
BALLYMENA, HIGH KIRK: Robert Strange
BALLYNAHINCH, FIRST: John Andrew Scott
BALLYWEANEY: Robert McLernon
BOARDMILLS, TRINITY: David John Patterson
BUSHMILLS: Craig McMillan
CARNMONEY: Robert Harrison Bonar, David Wilson Herbison
COOKE CENTENARY: John Herbert Ian Marshall
COMBER, FIRST: James Terence Andrew Hamilton
CRAIGY HILL: George Luke Gillespie
CREGGAN: William Reaney
DERRY, FIRST: Gilmore McCorkell
DONAGHEADY: Hazel Britton
DUNLOY: Alex McDowell
DUNMURRY: Denis White
EBRINGTON: John Kelly
FISHERWICK: Don Taylor, Geoffrey Trory
KELLS, BALLYMENA: Robin Carson
KILRAUGHTS, FIRST: John Reid
LISBURN, FIRST: Ernest Cromie
LISLOONEY: David Scott
LOWE: Jim Kerr
MAGHERA: Martin Shiels
MALONE: Peter Bannister, Hubert Ruddell
MOURNE: William Cousins
NEWTOWNBREDA: Noel Mulholland, James Alexander Wylie
PETTIGO: John Aiken
PORTADOWN, FIRST: James Boyd, William Calvert
RAY: William McKinley
RAPHOE & BALLINDRAIT: Jean Wilson
ROSEYARDS: David Anderson
RYANS: Norah Hamilton
SAINTFIELD, FIRST: Thomas John McBriar
TARTARAGHAN: Eddie Forbes
WHITEHEAD: Walter Woods, Thomas Alexander Harper
Ordained and Installed:
BALLYKEEL: Andrew Houston, Trevor McMullan, John McVicker
BALLYMONEY, FIRST: Darren Brewster, Heather Dunbar, Deborah Knight, Lesley
Owens, Amanda Walker
BUCKNA: David Bradley, Ian Craig, David Woodburn
COOKE CENTENARY: Alison Allen, Matthew Riddel
DRUMLEE: Worthing Anderson, Ivan McCready, Victor Weir
KILLYMURRIS: Paul Hughes
LISBURN, RAILWAY STREET: Diarmid Finnegan, John McCleary, Daniel Nelson, Alan Wall, Adam Woods
McQUISTON: Stephen Briggs, Paula McKeown
MINTERBURN: Christopher Holland, David Parr, Jennifer Parr, Sandra Spence
Installed:
BALLYKEEL: Greg Baird
BUCKNA: David Hanna
KILLYMURRIS: Andrew Hamill
LISBURN, RAILWAY STREET: Charlie Hadjiev
McQUISTON: Eileen Kelso
THE MINISTRY
Licensed:
Matthew Horner, by the North Belfast Presbytery, on 6 June 2021
Matthew Kelso, by the Ballymena Presbytery, on 20 June 2021
Paul Lutton, by the South Belfast Presbytery, on 6 June 2021
Resigned:
Thomas Trevor Boyd, as Minister of Rathfriland, First, on 31 May 2021
Ronald Ian Carton, as Minister of Whitehead, on 30 September 2021
Samuel David Conkey, as Minister of Enniscorthy & Wexford, on 8 October 2021
Jonathan James Currie, as Minister of First Saintfield, on 3 September 2021
Andrew Jonathan Galbraith, as Associate Minister of Bangor West, on 9
September 2021
Glen James Jordan, as Minister of Bellaghy & Knockloughrim, on 24 September
2021
Christopher William Peter Kennedy, as Minister of Dun Laoghaire, on 31 July 2021
David William Leach, as Minister of Lecumpher & Magherafelt, Union Road, on 31
July 2021
Joseph David McGaughey, as Associate Minister of Cuningham Memorial, on 27
August 2021
Stuart Alexander Morrow, as Minister of Moneydig, on 29 June 2021
Noel George Mulholland, as Minister of Glenwherry, on 23 September 2021
Ordained and Installed:
Philip Boyd Houston, as Minister of Ballykelly, on 20 August 2021
Richard Alexander Morrison, as Minister of Churchtown, on 6 August 2021
James Alexander Porter, as Minister of Orritor & Claggan, on 3 September 2021
Ordained and Inducted:
John Thomas Graham, as Associate Minister of Hill Street, Lurgan, on 10 October 2021
Installed:
Thomas Trevor Boyd, as Minister of Tobermore & Draperstown, on 1 September
2021
Seamus Burke, as Minister of Brookvale (linked with 2nd & 3rd Rathfriland), on 18
June 2021
Samuel David Conkey, as Minister of Tullylish & Gilford, on 9 October 2021
Andrew Jonathan Galbraith, as Minister of Fisherwick, on 10 September 2021
David William Leach, as Professor of Ministry & Director of the Institute for
Ministry, on 1 August 2021
Stuart Alexander Morrow, as Minister of Portstewart, on 30 June 2021
Noel George Mulholland, as Minister of Cuningham Memorial, on 24 September
2021
Installed and Inducted:
Jonathan James Currie, as Minister of Kilkennny, on 4 September 2021
Inducted:
Simon Michael Hamilton, as Forces Chaplain (Royal Navy), on 2 July 2021
Retired:
James Alistair Beattie, as Minister of Broughshane, Second on 30 June 2021
Peter Ernest Dickinson, as Minister of Muckamore, on 30 June 2021
Andrew Gibson, as Professor of Practical Theology UTC, on 31 July 2021
Raymond Kelly, as Minister of Garvagh, Main Street & Killaig, on 30 June 2021
Johnston Rea Lambe, as Minister of Mountpottinger, on 31 May 2021
William John Murdock, as Minister of Killead & Loanends, on 4 July 2021
Died:
Robert Trevor Anderson, Minister Emeritus of Richview & Berry Street, on 7 August
2021
Joseph Nixon, Minister Emeritus of Fourtowns & Poyntzpass on 30 June 2021
Jacob Maurice Wade, Minister Emeritus of Portavogie, on 7 July 2021
John Trevor Williamson, Minister Emeritus of Urney & Sion Mills, on 25 July 2021
Church Record June 2021
THE ELDERSHIP
Died:
BALLYGONEY: Bruce Johnston
BALLYCARRY: Robert Alexander Cowan
CASTLEBLAYNEY, FIRST: William Windrum
CLOGHERNEY: David McClure
DRUMLOUGH: Jim Shannon
DUNGANNON: John Bleakley
EDENDERRY: Robert Thomas Caldwell
HILLHALL: Joseph Hall Lockhart
MAGHERAFELT, FIRST: Dr Kenneth Watson (Emeritus)
MAGUIRESBRIDGE: William John Coulter
MARKETHILL, FIRST & SECOND: Walter Scott
MOLESWORTH: Wilfred Loghrin, Robert Stewart
MOUNTJOY: W. Alan Rennie
NEWCASTLE: Robert James Annett
TRINITY, BAILIEBOROUGH: Bert Coote
SESKINORE: William McCrea
Ordained and Installed:
BLOOMFIELD: David Bell, Kenny Chambers, James Cousley, James Gordon, Sharon Groves, Mark Harbinson, Peter Huey, Colin Maguire, James McClure
CLOGHER: Brian Fegan, Adrian Gervais
GARDENMORE: Harry Allen, Eric Cameron, Peter Logan, Alan Ward
Installed:
BLOOMFIELD: Michael Stoneman
THE MINISTRY
Resigned:
John Montgomery as Minister of Moneymore, First and Second on 21 March 2021
Installed:
Brian Colvin as Minister of Ryans (linked with Newry, Downshire Road) on 25 April 2021
Retired:
J. Stafford Carson as Principal, Union Theological College on 31 December 2020
Molly Deatherage as Minister of Ballina, Killala & Ballymote on 30 April 2021
Died:
Rev Alan Martin, Minister Emeritus of Abbey, Dublin, on 21 March 2021