Templepatrick team home after busy ministry trip to India

Monday August 11th 2025

A traditional dance performed during a cultural show for the Northern Ireland visitors by nursing students of the Indian Christian Mission Centre.

A team of six from Templepatrick Parish has returned home after a ministry trip to the Indian Christian Mission Centre in Salem, Tamil Nadu.

All aboard the sleeper bus! The Rev Jacqueline Mould and young members of the Templepatrick team which travelled to India.

They were accompanied on the trip from July 21 to August 1 by a team of 13 youth and adults from Belvoir Parish, Diocese of Down and Dromore. The Templepatrick team comprised Josh Brobyn, Rory Gordon, Matthew Mould, Katie Wallace, the Rev Jacqueline Mould and the rector, the Rev Jeremy Mould.

The group helped run a Bible Club for 45 primary school aged children. Their trip was supported by the Connor Mission Support Fund.

They visited an orphanage, took a church service, attended a Lamp Lighting Ceremony and the opening ceremony at a brick-making factory, visited a local school and leper colony, and enjoyed a Cultural Show featuring Indian worship dances by boys and girls from the orphanage and nursing college.

We will have a full report on this ministry trip in the autumn issue of Connor Connections.