Dear Friends, This is the 1st newsletter of March 2021 and is distributed together with a note from Alison Davis for those who attend Trinity. You will also find enclosed a booklet of Prayers to help you in your Lenten journey together with Mike Peck’s Bible Study notes for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, 7th…
Dear Friends We are now in the season of Lent and included in this letter is Mike Peck’s Bible Study notes for this Sunday 28th February (Click this link) . Also included is a Self-care article entitled “Love yourself through Lent”. A reminder daily on-line resources can be found at methodistic.org.uk and on the websites…
Based on the book – Finding Jesus in the Storm (The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges) by John Swinton. John Swinton is professor of practical theology and pastoral care at the University of Aberdeen and founding director of Aberdeen’s Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability. He worked as a nurse for sixteen…
Every Tuesday from 16th February – 23rd March – 7- 8 pm
THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST (CANDLEMAS) Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel. Luke 2.29-32. Candlemas is traditionally a…
Dear Friends This letter contains Mike Peck’s Bible Study notes (Click this link) ; a heart template for Valentines Day , a mediation called “Fathers Love Letter”, produced with permission and the booklet we will be using for this year’s Ipswich Circuit Lent Course book, entitled “Woven – A Lent Course”. This particular course has…
Based on 1 Corinthians 12:12-26Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is…
Reflection on Matthew 2; Verse 10 “When the Wise Men saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his Mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure-chest, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” Have…
Dear Friends WISHING YOU ALL A BLESSED 2021 For this January newsletter I thought it would be a good idea to share with you a little of the history of the Methodist Annual Covenant Service. This year the Covenant Service may take place a little later in many Churches due to the pandemic. The Covenant…
Alongside this reflection is a picture of one of our Hampers of Hope. These Hampers will be delivered over the next couple weeks to some Nursing Homes in the Felixstowe Mission Area of the Ipswich Circuit and also to anyone who requests one for themselves or requests one on behalf of a neighbour who might…