Lord’s Day Services
Worship services are held every Sunday at 11 AM & 6 PM in our church building (directions below) and both services are broadcast live each week
Directions
The Covenant Protestant Reformed Church is located on 83 Clarence Street (off the Cullybackey Road), Ballymena, Co. Antrim, BT43 5DR
Order of Worship
Call to Worship
Votum (“Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth”)
Benediction
Congregational Psalm Singing (1)
Prayer
Congregational Psalm Singing (2)
Scripture Reading
Congregational Psalm Singing (3)
Offering
Sermon
Prayer
Congregational Psalm Singing (4)
Benediction
Live video and audio streaming of CPRC worship services
Catechism Classes
Five different catechism classes for children and young people are held on Monday evenings from September to May
Click here to see our catechism material (in English)
Our catechism materials are also available on-line in various languages:
For more information, e-mail or call Pastor Stewart at (028) 25 891851
Tuesday Morning Bible Study
Subject 1: The Local Church
Subject 2: Saving Faith: A Biblical and Theological Analysis
Meets on Tuesdays at 11:00 AM (including through the summer, except when our pastor is away)
Tea and coffee are provided
Visitors welcome!
For more information, e-mail or call Rev. Stewart at (028) 25 891851
Wednesday Evening Belgic Confession Class
Subject: Belgic Confession (1561), a martyr’s creed from the Reformation
Meets on Wednesdays at 7:30 PM, September-May
We are currently studying Article 37 on eschatology or the last things, dealing with global preaching as a sign of Christ’s return
Tea and coffee are provided
Visitors are welcome!
The audios of all these classes are available on-line
For more information, e-mail or call Pastor Stewart at (028) 25 891851
Saturday Night Bible Study Group
Meets on Saturdays twice a month at 7:30 PM on-line by video to discuss the book of II Thessalonians, using a study guide
Reformed Witness Hour Radio Broadcast
Tune in to Gospel 846 AM/MW every Sunday from 8:30-9:00 AM to hear the Reformed Witness Hour, a radio program produced by the Protestant Reformed Churches in America. Each broadcast features a short message by Rev. Carl Haak, the pastor of Georgetown Protestant Reformed Church, Michigan, Rev. Wilbur Bruinsma or other ministers. The CPRC sponsors this programme which is aired from County Donegal and can be heard in Ulster, even reaching the west coast of Scotland.
Covenant PRC: A Teaching Church (August, 2019)
In II Peter 3:18, we are commanded to “grow in grace,” which is through “the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Are you growing in the knowledge of the Son of God by faith? Do you desire this growth? Hosea 4:6 warns, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee.”
The Covenant Protestant Reformed Church (CPRC) in Ballymena wants you to grow in your faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ through His Word, so we are a teaching church. If you want to know the rich, deep, consistent, powerful message of the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures centred on Jesus Christ and Him crucified, come to the CPRC!
The Lord’s day preaching (11 AM & 6 PM) explains passages and doctrines of the Bible. Watch free and live.
Our Wednesday night classes on the Belgic Confession (1561), written by a man who was later martyred for his witness for the truth, systematically explain the faith of the Reformation—what it is and how it is taught in God’s Word. These classes begin on 11 September on the subject of the Lord’s Supper. All 269 classes so far can be listened to free on-line.
On Tuesday mornings, we are treating neglected Scriptures on the Mosaic law, showing their development in Israel’s history, Psalms and prophetical writings and their fulfilment in Jesus Christ and His New Testament church.
Monday night is catechism night with special classes, starting on 9 September, taught to the children by our pastor, Rev. Angus Stewart, from age-appropriate booklets, covering Old Testament and New Testament history, the Heidelberg Catechism and Essentials of Reformed Doctrine.
Besides these meetings, Covenant PRC holds Men’s Bible Studies and Ladies’ Bible Studies, as well as special lectures, including an annual Reformation Day lecture. This year our subject is “William Tyndale: English Bible Translator” (Friday, 25 October, 2019).
The CPRC’s teaching ministry involves about 150 quality books (Bible commentaries, devotionals, theological works, biographies, practical books, etc.). We sell box sets of CDs and DVDs—sermons, church historical lectures, doctrine classes, conference speeches, etc. We also stock about 130 free pamphlets. Just contact us and we will gladly post the relevant titles to you!
The CPRC sends out by mail or e-mail a monthly paper, the Covenant Reformed News, to many people on every continent and in scores of countries. Let us know and we will send it to you free.
Information about all of these things is available on www.cprc.co.uk, probably the largest church website in N. Ireland.
The CPRC’s teaching ministry by means of audio and video, books and pamphlets, CDs and DVDs, etc., in English is expanding into other languages too. We have some 2,500 articles and videos in about 130 languages, especially Afrikaans, Burmese, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Do you speak any of these?
If we love someone, we desire to know as much as we can about that person. Should not that be especially true of our Lord and Saviour? If you want to understand the Bible, and desire to learn and grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, join us at the CPRC, for “this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).
