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Easter at Dunmurry

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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.

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Easter Reflections from Dunmurry

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Easter Reflections for 2023 from First Dunmurry (NS) Presbyterian Church with the minister Rev Dr David Steers and the organist Allen Yarr who plays ‘Ride on, ride on, in majesty’, ‘Jesus Christ is risen today’, and ‘The Day of Resurrection’ on the piano.

First Presbyterian (NS) Church photographed on the morning of Palm Sunday 2023
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Easter 2021

This Sunday our Easter service comes from the First Presbyterian (Non-Subscribing) Church, Downpatrick. We are starting to move back to worship in our churches but are continuing with our online services on YouTube as well.

First Presbyterian (Non-Subscribing) Church, Downpatrick

Easter Service from Downpatrick

Click on the above video (after 9.45 am on Sunday, 4th April) for our Easter service

The service is conducted by the minister, Rev Dr David Steers, and features church secretary Mary Stewart as reader (Matthew ch.28 v.1-10), Molly McCloy as soloist and Laura Patterson as organist. Gerard Manley Hopkins poem Easter is also read.

Good Friday Reflections

Good Friday Reflections 2nd April 2021

Sue Steers gives this reflection on Good Friday which combines an examination of a famous human story from 1912 with Jesus’s sense of destiny and self-sacrifice, looking also at images of Jesus, including this early Byzantine mosaic picturing Jesus without a beard. John Strain plays the organ at Ballee with the hymns My Faith Looks up to Thee (Irish Presbyterian Hymn Book 72), Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun (Hymns of Faith and Freedom 288) and Thou Whose Almighty Word (Hymns of Faith and Freedom 173).