t’s Harvest Time! We will be supporting FIND at our church Harvest Festivals this year. If you are attending worship, you are invited to bring non-perishable food items on the appropriate Sunday. If you are attending remotely, then please consider making a monetary donation to FIND.
Dear Siblings in Christ, Today’s service is available online. Scripture is Matthew 16:13-20. This is the fourth in the five-week series living outside the box. We try to box God in, but God is always breaking out of the box and shattering our understandings of life in God’s kingdom. Today we will ponder Jesus’ question,…
Dear Siblings in Christ, Today’s service is available online. Scripture is Matthew 15:21-28. This is the third in the five-week series living outside the box entitled passing the crumbs. We try to box God in, but God is always breaking out of the box and shattering our understandings of life in God’s kingdom. In today’s…
There is some news here from all three churches, so keep reading to find what you need!
The circuit online Arts and Crafts Exhibition is up for you to view. The exhibition is in two parts. The first part is a short two-minute video with an overview of the entries that were submitted. The second part consists of eight galleries of photos depicting the 264 entries. We hope you take the time to enjoy the show!
As you know, although churches can now open for worship, in our Circuit, we are taking things slowly. Each individual church is deciding when they will safely re-open. Museum Street will be re-opening for worship on Sunday 2nd August at 10.45 a.m.
Those that came together last week for a faith and racism discussion have decided to do a book study. We will be reading and discussing a book by a black author called Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
Rev. Joan Pell will be leading a Zoom book study on racism and white privilege. Our first step in advocating for Black lives and Asian and Minority Ethnic lives is to understand or even believe that there is a problem. We will be reading a book by a black author called Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. The author’s name is Reni Eddo-Lodge. The book is on the Sunday Time’s Best Seller list.
The Methodist Conference is underway. The Conference is the governing body of the Methodist Church and meets annually to discuss matters affecting the life of the Church, the nation and the world. This year the Conference is meeting online from 25th June to 1st July. Watch the livestream and find all the documentation by starting here.
You may have heard that the government is allowing church buildings to open for private prayer from Monday 15th June and for community worship at the earliest from sometime in July. Our Methodist Connexion has advised us not to open for private prayer unless it is essential to our ministry, which at this point, we do not deem it to be. There is a long and complex checklist that we will have to follow whenever we do decide that we are ready to open our buildings, and it will take time to prepare the building and provide training.