Northern Ireland

No Superhero Cape...

30 Aug 2024
2640

Send us a text      Light and hope in great darkness.  Kerry and Will welcome Ben McMechan, the Northern Ireland lead for IJM, International Justice Mission.  In partnership with organisations and authorities across the world, they tackle slavery, vi...

Seeing the World Through Different Eyes

29 Jul 2024
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Send us a text      Kerry and Will meet Chris Thompson, the Director of Tearfund NI and Lois Baillie, their Church and Supporter Engagement team Leader.  Talking about Church Partnerships.  How you can play your part to help train and equip local chu...

Pastor to the People.

28 Jun 2024
3015

Send us a text     Meet one of the finest story-tellers you'll ever hear.  A talented broadcaster,  author and newspaper columnist, Rev Jim Rea is many more things besides.  A former Methodist President in Ireland, a pastor in both countryside and ci...

Settled, Adjusted, Equipped, and Befriended

24 May 2024
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Send us a text     Settled, adjusted, equipped and befriended.  That's the hope Avril Edgar has for every person in the Refugee and Asylum Community  in Northern Ireland.  It's why she joined a few friends to found Acacia Path which helps the Christi...

Helping Your Community Thrive

29 Apr 2024
2674

Send us a text      Kerry and Will chat with Diane Holt of Thrive Ireland.  Last time we heard about a church which was reaching out to its community, in that particular case, to a local prison.  But most of us don't live near one!  What could other...

"A Part, but not Apart."

29 Mar 2024
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Send us a text     With a prison on its doorstep, one church in south Belfast decided it would build relationships with it.  No small task, given that Hydebank College and Female Prison - like any other - sometimes appears in the news in anything but...

"Good News People"

27 Feb 2024
2831

Send us a text     Is Northern Ireland a place apart?  More "religious" than Great Britain?  Here's a remarkable snapshot of current Christian faith in Northern Ireland.  David Smyth, the head of Evangelical Alliance here, joins Kerry and Will to dis...

Never Just a Holy Huddle.

29 Jan 2024
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Send us a text     In a triumph of diary matching, Kerry and Will meet David Montgomery, known as "Monty" to his friends and associates. He works as the Regional Director for IFES Europe.  IFES is the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students....

"Standing in the Gap".

18 Dec 2023
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Send us a text     Cost of Living Part 2.Kerry Greig and Will Leitch dig deeper into the issues surrounding the cost of living crisis, and the response of Christians to it.  Who is "standing in the gap"?   Last time they heard from three groups that...

To Live, to Love, to Laugh, to Dance Again...

2 Dec 2023
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Send us a text     In this special extra edition of The Commission Files, Will Leitch meets Alan McBride. Alan appeared on many news outlets in Autumn 2023 as people marked the 30th anniversary of the Shankill Bombing which killed ten people.  He's w...

"Holy Discontent..."

24 Nov 2023
3004

Send us a text      Cost of Living Part 1."It could be you.."  That's a phrase Will Leitch and Kerry Greig heard over and over again as they researched and recorded this edition of The Commission Files, focussing on the cost of living crisis.  Many p...

Cookies and Satellite Dishes.

27 Oct 2023
2743

Send us a text     Kerry Greig and Will Leitch welcome two new guests to Studio 2 at Commission to hear  how Christians work in so-called "restricted countries' - where traditional Christian outreach models simply aren't possible."Matt" from Business...

"So much a part of us..."

28 Sep 2023
2455

Send us a text     In this first episode of "The Commission Files", Will Leitch and Kerry Greig introduce you to David Moore.  He serves as a Presbyterian minister.  He's also the first minister  for decades  the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has se...

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