During Holy Week members of the Church and Youth Group at First Dunmurry gave a reading each day which was uploaded to Facebook. These are now collected together in this video marking Easter along with Isaac Watts’s famous hymn When I survey the wondrous Cross played by church organist Allen Yarr on the piano. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) was an Independent minister who was forced by circumstances to live a quiet life but who became a prolific and deservedly popular hymn writer. James Moffatt says of him ‘His tolerant spirit, his liberal views, and above all his deservedly popular hymns, did much to sweeten relations between Anglicans and Dissenters…Judged by his best hymns, he takes rank with the greatest of English hymn-writers.’

On Easter Day we held our own service at 11.30 am and prior to that at 7.00 am shared in a Dawn Service in Dunmurry Park with the local churches as part of Dunmurry Churches Together. This was followed by breakfast in our Church Hall. ‘Storm Dave’ threatened to disrupt our plans but thankfully had no impact, by 7.00 am the weather was calm and serene and we had a wonderful act of worship together to mark Easter.

Some images from our service in Dunmurry at dawn followed by breakfast in the Church Hall and some of our members who provided the breakfasts.