Connor Connections autumn issue coming to a church near you!

Wednesday October 15th 2025

The autumn issue of our diocesan magazine Connor Connections is now available free to all parishioners.

This magazine, which features last month’s Service of Celebration of Lay Ministry in Connor, held in Belfast Cathedral, on the cover, will be distributed through parish churches.

Articles in this issue include report of trips by Ballyclare youth who travelled to Hungary with Exodus, and Templepatrick Parish who undertook a ministry trip to India.

We look back at diocesan events include the annual Synod; Summer Madness and Connor Takes the Castle; and we revisit Greenisland Parish – a year after it was devastated by fire.

St Peter’s, Antrim Road, Belfast, celebrated its 125^th anniversary – you can read all about it – and find out about recent Braemor Studies publications, and the curates who authored them.

There is a report on Christian Aid’s 80^th anniversary, and all the activities undertaken by members of Connor Mothers’ Union.

You will also read about the return of an ancient Connor Chapter Seal, missing for many decades; a mosquito survey in Malone; and we carry tributes to the Rev Stewart Heaney, the Rev Ron Elsdon and the Rev Derek Steele.