Rev. Philip McCrea was installed as our minister on 27th June 2007.
Rev. McCrea grew up in the congregation of Harryville in Ballymena. Having graduated from the New University of Ulster in 1984 with a BA in History with Education, he went on to study for a B.D. at Queen’s University in Belfast.
During his training for the ordained ministry, he spent the summer of 1985 as Assistant to the Convenor in Sion Mills and Urney congregations. In 1986, he started his Assistantship in Oldpark, where he was ordained in 1988.
In 1990, he received a call from the congregations of Castlecaulfield and Eglish, near Dungannon. He was installed as minister of Maghera congregation in County Londonderry in March 1996.
Philip is married to Ruth, and they have four grown-up children — Mark, Sarah, Laura, and Nicola — as well as a grandson, Dylan.
