Jonny’s first contact with Upney Baptist Church was in the summer of 2006 when he came to help in the Church’s summer mission. He came again over the next few years to lead the summer missions and enrolled in the Irish Baptist College in 2009, graduating in 2012 with a Batchelor of Divinity Degree.
In 2012 Jonny was invited by Upney Baptist Church to be the Assistant Pastor on a 12 month contract, then appointed Interim Pastor when Billy Young stepped down as Pastor in 2013. Jonny was subsequently elected Pastor of Upney Baptist Church at a Special Church Meeting on February 18th 2014, he was then inducted as Pastor on Saturday 12th April 2014 where Jonny’s father, Pastor Harry Dowds of Stonepark Baptist Church in County Fermanagh, gave the message from God’s Word.