Portaferry Methodist Church in Northern Ireland on the Strangford Lough by the Ferry.

Updated 24 April 2008

New Programme

Prayer Group

List of Recordings for use in Services

Welcome to Portaferry Methodist Church! (Map for Directions)

What Methodists Believe History of Methodism Structure of the Methodist Church

The Church

Inside the Church

The church and entrance porch

Founded in 1780
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The church holds about 100

(l-r Revs RJ Black, E Middleton-Weaver, Dr Alexander McCrea) former ministers of Glastry and Portaferry in 1950s

Services: Sundays at 10.00am What's on ?

Click on the image to hear the organ. You will have to wait a little while for the file to load into your computer.

You can participate in our church service by letting us know your favourite sacred music and we can play it at some part of the service and include it in our list of recordings. Please send the details to Ernest Parker

On the first Sunday of each month there is a special service followed by communion. All are welcome to participate. We sadly said goodbye to our Minister Rev Stephen Foster and wish him well in his new appointment in Longford and Cavan.

We welcomed our new minister, Nick McKnight, with his wife, Lesley, and their two children, Rebecca and Jack in July. Nick's message to Portaferry is:

"We are all looking forward to sharing our lives with the people of Portaferry. It is exciting as we look forward to the next step of this thrilling journey that we all take together with Jesus Christ. People mattered to Jesus and I want them to matter to me as well. My prayer is that during our time together we can discover the passionate love that God has for each one of us and to see our lives transformed by his amazing grace. "

See what's on in the coming weeks click here

                     WORDS
                         Words are mysterious as the wind.
                         In cause and effect beyond our ken.
                         Words can create and words destroy,
                         Like artist's brush or vandal's pen.
                         Words know no limits of time or space -
                         A potent blend of sound and thought.
                         Whilst sounds themselves may be recalled,
                         Thoughts, like shooting stars,go on their way,
                         Creating new worlds of grief or joy.

                           Copyright 2004 Rev Robert Bagnall