About Us

Leadership and Administration

Kirk Session
As a Presbyterian Church, the leadership of Eglinton is the responsibility of a group of elders, all elected by the congregation. In Presbyterian terms, the minister is the ‘teaching’ elder, the others are ‘ruling’ elders. Elections of additional ‘ruling’ elders are held from time to time.

Congregational Committee
Elected by the congregation every three years, the Committee works with Kirk Session, having particular responsibility for the matters relating to finance, property and church publications. The Committee members also share district visitation with the elders .

Literature
Bible Reading Notes, Points For Prayer and Christian Magazines are available to help and encourage Christian growth and give an awareness of a Christian viewpoint.

Flower Committee
Arrange flowers in the church each week, often donated by people in memory of family members. These are distributed each week to people who are elderly, housebound or ill.

Finance
There is considerable income and expenditure involved in maintaining the work and witness of Eglinton each year. We need the support of all our members to ensure the activities of the congregation and the wider church are maintained. If you are planning to make Eglinton your church family, then what follows may be of interest.

The most common way of supporting the regular work of the church is through Freewill Offering.

The development, maintenance, repair and decoration of church property is supported through the Property Maintenance fund.

The main opportunity for contributing to the wider mission of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is through the United Appeal.

To enable regular and planned support for these funds envelopes are issued annually to all who are or who wish to be members of the congregation.

If you are a tax payer the most efficient way to give is by means of Gift Aid. For each £1 you give the church is able to recover around 30p from the Inland Revenue.

It is also possible to arrange your giving by means of a Standing Order.

Further details on any of these matters can be obtained from our Church Treasurer.

“SO What's a Christian then?”

That's a question that leaves many confused. We still live in a supposedly "Christian" country but does that make us all Christians? Is there more to it than having been baptised, living a decent life and having a vague belief in God? The Bible has the answer.

At the heart of the Christian faith is a living relationship with God. The Bible tells us that becoming a Christian is about finding forgiveness and being reconciled to God. Through the death and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ, God has provided a way out of our isolation. Our sin need no longer block us off from God, because He himself has paid the price to deal with the damaging consequences.

Becoming a Christian involves thanking God for giving us a new start. We must take a conscious decision to come under God's new management. God is not some hard hearted asset stripper who might subsequently lay us off. We really can trust that He knows what's best for our life and what will bring fulfilment. So we need to move from a life of total self-reliance to a life of dependence on the living God. It's tremendously exciting to discover that you can encounter Jesus for yourself and experience God's fatherly love through the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately, many people still prefer to leave Jesus out of the equation. He often gets sidelined while we try to make a go of life on our own. Sadly, managing our own affairs and living to please ourselves puts us in a broken relationship with God. A Christian is someone who sees the problem and recognises that a response must be made to Jesus laying down his life for us. Saying "Thank you, please come into my life," repairs the relationship.

Changing the direction of your life opens the door to discovering the very presence and power of God. It's thrilling to discover your true identity, to know how much God values you and to realise that you can be of use to God in changing his world.