Ballyfermot Community Church is based in Ballyfermot and our desire is to be a benefit and a blessing in our local community by representing the grace and truth of Jesus Christ in a meaningful and relevant way to the people in our area.
Ballyfermot Community Church has its own website. For more information on Ballyfermot Community Church Ballyfermot Community Church and Oasis Counselling Service share the same premises at the corner of Drumfinn Road and Drumfinn Park. They have been operating since 1992 when the Church first opened its doors. The vision of Oasis is to communicate the love of God as made manifest through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This takes the double edged approach of direct evangelism, alongside social action which is the basis of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Oasis counselling is a non directive approach to counselling. Oasis Counselling has its own website. For more information: Oasis Counselling has its own website. For more information on Oasis Counselling ServiceBackground
It was after a series of six meetings that were held in the West County Hotel in 1992 that the Church first got started. Our first meeting together as a Church took place in Ballyfermot on a Sunday morning in a small rented room over a flower shop at the beginning of November. Since then we have been able to move into a premises of our own and consequently have been able to increase and improve the range of our activities and services.
Our Fellowship Group, which has grown since those early days, is made up of people of all ages and family background. We are ordinary people mainly from Ballyfermot and surrounding areas who have found forgiveness, new life and peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Our Church is a part of the Elim Pentecostal Movement which began in the town of Monaghan in 1915 and is itself a part of the worldwide Charismatic or Pentecostal stream of the Christian Church. This is the fastest growing stream of the Christian faith with over 500 million adherents across the world.
As a Church we take our faith seriously and continually seek to shape our lives by the Bible and the Holy Spirit in order that we may please God and become a benefit and a blessing to our local community, our city and our nation.
What we believe
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About our Pastor
John Waller is the senior pastor at ElimBCC. he has also ministered in missions in Ghana, in Africa.
John and Trish Waller are from Malton, North Yorkshire, England.
"We were childhood sweethearts and married in 1970. We had two sons. The elder of our sons died in 1996 in Ghana.
We were all born again in 1984 (Trish in February, Darryl in April, John in August and Jay in October). We all attended Malton Elim Church which was at that time only about twenty members strong. John was a long distance lorry driver and Trish worked in the local primary school as a dinner lady and non-teaching assistant.
In 1986, John started working for the church as an evangelist, training church members in evangelism, undertaking door to door and street work and organising outreaches into surrounding villages. In 1987, we left Malton to attend Elim Bible College in Nantwich. After completing the two year course we joined the team at Kensington Temple with responsibility for pioneering the church in Slough. We were there for three years and saw the church grow to around 50 active members.
In 1992, we were approached by both The Church of Pentecost and Elim Missions Board (a testimony in itself) to transfer to Ghana as missionaries replacing Lionel and Ruth Currie. John was to be the Principal of the Bible College which trained young men for ministry with Church of Pentecost (the largest church in West Africa with over 1,000,000 members worldwide). During his time as Principal, John initiated a course for training church elders of whom there are around 10,000. Up to this point there had been no formal training for these men who take up the day-to-day running of local assemblies under the direction of a pastor who may have 10 – 15 assemblies under his care. He also initiated missions training for the student pastors. This involved a three-week assignment in the rural areas of Ghana. Many of these are very remote, accessible only by boat or perhaps on foot. Some students travelled to the far north of Ghana where there is much more poverty and also strong Islamic tendencies.
During his time at the Bible College he was able to hand over the role of Principal to a national pastor who had been trained at Elim Bible College. He remained as a lecturer on the faculty of the College but undertook a new role as head of Internal Missions. This involved travelling to remote areas to undertake training or evangelistic outreaches. This was a new venture for the church and proved to be very effective in winning thousands of souls to Christ. During his time in Ghana John continued his studies, gaining his B.Th. in Applied Theology from Regents Theological College and his Ph.D. from Hartford University, USA.
From 1994, Trish worked with the Church of Pentecost as the Administrative Secretary to the International Missions Director. The Church has missions working in fifty different nations around the world. Apart from works in many African nations, they also work in major European nations, the Middle East, USA and Canada, India, Japan, Ukraine and Nepal. You may be interested to know that already, the Church has three assemblies in the Republic of Ireland.
During our furlough in 2003 we had to make a decision to leave Ghana after 11 years service. The Lord opened the door for us to follow Pastor and Mrs John McEvoy in the Ballyfermot Community Church, Dublin. This is a new challenge and we are on a sharp learning curve as we get to grips with a new culture and climate!!! We are excited at the prospect of seeing God at work in this area. We are right behind General Superintendent, Pastor John Glass’s vision of ‘Building Bigger People.’ Big people build big churches and our heart’s desire is to see men and women won for Christ.
