Carrickfergus Vineyard

This episode of the Carrickfergus Vineyard podcast was recorded at Encounter, our monthly evening of prayer and worship. This month Owen, our new Youth coordinator, shares what it means to live life to the full, by listening to God and obeying His voice. 

This week Paul introduces our latest teaching series, Marked, a journey through the gospel of Mark. Each week we will take a deeper look into one of the sixteen chapters of Mark's gospel. This week Paul sets the scene as he introduces us to the person of John Mark, the cousin of Barnabas and the one that Peter calls his son, as well as exploring what a gospel is and how they fit into the narrative of the Bible.  

This week, as part of our Heroes of the Faith teaching series, Mark shares about Timothy. 

As we continue in our summer teaching series, Heroes of the Faith, Jenna shares about Mary Magdalene. 

Join us as Geoff shares about Esther as we continue our Heroes of the Faith series. 

This week in our Heroes of the Faith series, Hannah will talk about David. There will be an opportunity for communion after her message. Paul will announce that Brian has been appointed as our new Associate Pastor. Owen, our Youth Coordinator, and some young people will also share their experiences from CIY's MOVE.

This week, as we continue our Heroes of the Faith series, Ellie shares a little bit about Daniel. 

This week Allan shares some musings about John the Baptist, as we continue our teaching series Heroes of the Faith. 

This week, as we continue in our Heroes of the Faith series, Brian takes a closer look into the life and lessons of Elijah. 

Join us as Paul starts our summer teaching series, Heroes of the Faith. Each week we will take a bit of a deep dive into a different person, a different hero of the faith. This week Paul shares about Andrew.

Join us as Chantel concludes our teaching series 'Relationship Goals'

This week we spent some time during our service to thank Emma McQuaggan for her time leading youth for the last 8 years.

This week, for our penultimate message in our Relationship Goals series, Paul explores boundaries, including some of the boundaries that we see Jesus put in place, as well as some healthy ways to set boundaries. 

Join us as Emma explores the not so easy subject of forgiveness. 

On Sunday Chantel shared that, after months of prayerful consideration with the senior leadership team and the board of directors, that we would like to hire a full time associate pastor, but in order to be able to do this, we have asked our church family to prayerfully consider their giving.   For more information on giving, including how to give financially to the life of Carrickfergus Vineyard, please visit carrickfergusvineyard.org/give

This week we were privileged to baptise four people from our church family down in Fisherman's Quay for all of Carrickfergus to see!

This week, as part of our relationship goals series, Paul explores the topic of crucial conversations asking what is a crucial conversation, why we need to have them and how we should have them. 

This week Chantel encourages us to look at our own expectations and have those not too easy conversations with others to clarify our perceived expectations of each other. 

Join us as we start our new teaching series “Relationship Goals”

This week we're thrilled to have had Tash McBride from Home For Good | Safe Families share with us. 

Join us as Chantel explores the last supper, and Jesus' commandment to “do this in remembrance of me”

This week our guest speaker, Jamie Hawthorne, from Lagan Valley Vineyard helps us explore baptism by asking  what is baptism? how do we baptise people? what happens at baptism?

This week Chantel wraps up our Teach Us To Pray series by looking over the last few months and what we can take away from this sermon series.

This week, as Chantel continues in our Teach Us To Pray series, she explores contending prayer. 

This week Owen shares some of the ups and downs of life with Jesus as a young adult in this generation.    

This week, as part of our Teach Us To Pray series, Chantel explores unanswered prayers.

This week Paul explores praying for healing for other people.

This week our very own Emma Crawford continues in our Teach Us To Pray series, as she looks at fasting.

This week, as part of our Teach Us To Pray series, Brian explores some ways in which to BE WITH God.

This week Paul continues in our Teach Us To Pray series, exploring listening as we pray and what that can look like.

I AM The Vine   Join us as we hear from our guest speaker, Andy Hickford from Jubilee Leadership.   This week Andy explores John 15 where Jesus tells us that He is the True Vine and his Father is the gardener and Jesus instructs his disciples to abide in him.   https://www.bible.com/bible/111/JHN.15.NIV

This week Chantel starts our new teaching series, Teach Us To Pray as she explores 1 Kings 18, and especially verses 41-46 where Elijah prays for rain.  

This week Mark shares his personal story of finding God in a life changing event and how God has used suffering to reveal more of Himself and demonstrate His glory.   If you'd like to chat about anything mentioned in Mark's talk, please feel free to get in touch at info@carrickfergusvineyard.org   Mark's talk will be the last talk published on our podcast in 2024, so if this podcast is how you connect with us, may we wish you a happy Christmas and we'll be back in the New Year!

This week Chantel concludes our teaching series, The Inviation, by inviting us to remember our history, our heritage but to lift up our heads and see what God is doing today. She also invites us to share the hope that we have in Jesus with others by taking our kindling, no matter show small it may seem, and light little fires, everywhere.   If God has been speaking to you, through what you may have been hearing in this teaching series, then we'd love to hear from you! Email info@carrickfergusvineyard.org to get the conversation flowing!

This week we explore the Biblical accounts of people bringing and inviting people to Jesus.  Paul explores the account of Andrew bringing his brother Simon (who would later be renamed Peter) to meet and to be with Jesus, as well as the account of Phillip, after being invited by Jesus to "follow me", went and found Nathaniel and told him "come and see" the Messiah.  During Paul's talk, he encouraged us to consider what friends and family we could invite to one of our Christmas gatherings. For more information on our Christmas gatherings, make sure to visit www.carrickfergusvineyard.org/christmas   Who will you invite?

This week we were thrilled to be joined by Rhoda Robinson, from Hope For Every Home Ireland, as we continued in our The Invitation series.   For more information on the work of Hope For Every Home Ireland, visit hopeforeveryhomeireland.org/

This week Paul Daniels starts a new series entitled "The Invitation" and he looks at the power of an invitation as well as Jesus' invitation to follow Him.

This week Paul Daniels concludes our SEED series as he explores Discipleship. 

This week Paul Daniels continues our SEED series, as he explores what it looks like for us as a Church to Extend.

Join us as Paul and Chantel start us off in our new teaching series, SEED. Over the next four weeks we will explore what it means for our church to be Safe, to Encounter, to Extend and to Disciple.

Join us as Chantel concludes our Micah 6:8 teaching series as she explores what it means to "walk humbly with your God."

Join us as Paul explores what it means to "love mercy" in part two of our Micah 6:8 teaching series.

Join us as we start a new three week teaching series on Micah 6:8.

Join us as we conclude our Summer Sundays teaching as Geoff Magill explores the fact that in this life there will be troubles, or storms, but ⁠it's about recognising that you cannot bring anything to the table except your complete dependency on God and that God knows the end from the beginning and He has a plan to bring us comfort and rest.  

This week Emma, our Youth co-ordinator, as well as some of the Youth share about their recent trip to Romania with Stand By Me and then Emma reflects on being a youth leader serving such amazing young people. 

In this episode of the Carrickfergus Vineyard podcast, we spend some time thanking and honouring Kate and Dave Crosbie, who have been significantly involved in the life of our Church for the past six years, with Kate joining our staff team as Assistant Pastor for the last two years.

This week, we hear from Emma Crawford, as part of our Summer Sunday series. In her message, Emma reflects back on a moment where God spoke to her in the car park of the harbour, where He reminds Emma (and us through Emma's message) that when we meet with Him, He greets us with a "Hello little one, how are you?"

Join us as we welcome our guest speaker, Patrick Regan.  Patrick Regan OBE is an activist whose passion is speaking about resilience, courage, and wellbeing. He founded two award-winning charities, XLP and, most recently, Kintsugi Hope, in partnership with his wife, Diane. Kintsugi Hope has pioneered Kintsugi Wellbeing groups all over the UK to help people in the area of their emotional and mental health.   Patrick is a mental health first aider, a campaigner on issues of social justice and was awarded an OBE for his services to the young by Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He is an Honorary Fellow of the South Bank University for his contribution to Justice and Wellbeing. In 2023 Patrick was awarded "Most Influential CEO for Mental Health Training" by CEO Monthly. Patrick has written seven books. The titles cover his work with tackling poverty and educational failure, his own journey with mental, emotional and spiritual health and his message that it's OK not to be OK all of the time – offering tools and insights into faith and mental health. Patrick is married to Diane, and they have four children.

This morning, as part of our Summer Sunday series, Hannah Ritchie asks us "are you hungry for Jesus?"

This morning we hear from Jenna Briggs, our Worship Coordinator, as she explores John 4 and Jesus' interaction with the woman at the well.