Free Presbyterian Church hold Mullingar meeting

Ministers of the church founded by Rev Ian Paisley comes to Mullingar tonight (Tuesday), to hold a special public gospel meeting at the Mullingar Park Hotel.The meeting is one of a number held south of the border since April of this year, Rev Leslie Wilson, of the Free Presbyterian Church, told the Westmeath Examiner this week, adding that it came on foot of the church's presence at the National Ploughing Championships earlier this month in Wexford, its 12th year in a row to attend the Ploughing."We're just going around with leaflets and gospel packs and bibles and New Testaments," said the Rev Wilson, explaining that the aim is to get the message across."We do meet a lot of people who are disillusioned. We're finding that people within the Catholic church don't have an assurance - just a hope - that they are alright for heaven, but they don't believe they have that assurance, and that is the message we want to bring," he says."We can know that we have a place in heaven: it's not a 'hope'; you can 'know'.""The critical area and the active nub of it is we have to depend on what Christ did for us, not what we can do for ourselves or Him," he says.He said the aim is not to set up a church here, but that the meeting is one of the many they intend organising.The Free Presbyterian Church has branches in Britain, the US, Canada and Australia, as well as mission outreach centres in Kenya, Liberia and Brazil, and it has two churches in the 26 counties, one in Monaghan, and one in Donegal.