Father Paul Symonds was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for his tireless community work. We have been chatting to him to find out how an English priest has ended up becoming such a key figure amid changing times in Ballymena…
Words seemed only capable of falling to the ground, but gestures [...]
Dreaming Beyond Divides
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Snow Dodgers
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
While most of us will be guzzling Easter eggs over the holiday weekend two intrepid young guys from Fermanagh will be embarking on a 4000 mile charity adventure which will end in one of the poorest countries in Europe…
Gareth Wallace, 29, from Church Hill and James Johnson, 29, from Kiladeas are part of a team [...]
A People’s Person
Friday, April 10, 2009
We’re so quick to categorise people, whether they are single mums, drugs addicts…and yet behind the headlines there is a real desperate need in each one to be loved and to be forgiven.



Spark is a shared outreach vision between the churches of Ballymena which aims to show love ...