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Joan’s Jottings for 18th June

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.

Little Lambs Toddler Group

Little Lambs Toddler Group is based at Landseer Road Methodist Church and has continued to meet, online every week since the lock-down began. The first few weeks were definitely a learning process as we had to adapt to using technology to communicate with the members of the group in new ways. A weekly session now…

Update from Norwood

The following message has been received from Ruth Loggie : “Last week we started visits again at Norwood, which is at once a joy and a worry. It is arranged so that the resident sits in our Family Room by the patio doors and their visitors sit outside under a gazebo at 2 metres distance.…

Joan’s Jottings for 14th June

Peni Rokobuli gives a presentation about his mission trip in our service today. It is MHA Sunday. Six people from around the circuit participated in singing the Ipswich Blessing. The local clergy made the newspaper with our statement about racism. Thank you to everyone from Museum Street who donated food to our food drive for FIND.

“Open the eyes of my heart Lord”

Thought for the day – Sunday 14th June 2020 Bible reading : Luke 11:34-36“Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not…

MHA Sunday Worship Service

You are invited to worship together with MHA, to reflect on the impact of coronavirus on the MHA communities and remember all those who have died within MHA and beyond. The service will be streamed at 3pm on Sunday June 14th and the recording will be available afterwards. Watch it here.

Lectionary reflections for Sunday 14th June 2020

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time.                                                                                14.6.20 Lectionary Readings: Exodus 19 v2-8a.                               Moses at Mount Sinai. Romans 5 v1-8                                   A new life for God’s people. Matthew 9 v35 – 10 v8                      Jesus has pity on people. Are you part of the problem or part of the solution? That is the underlying question I think…