Dear Friends, There is fresh optimism as we face Easter 2022, we are preparing to share events that have not happened for two years, and I am waiting in eager anticipation as we journey through Lent. Looking back to Easter 2020, we were just a fortnight into the first lockdown, and we were starting to…
I am writing this immediately following the return to the UK of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori following their detention in Iran. Most of us will have no idea how it feels to be held without reason and without any idea when or if release will come. Similarly, ordinary people condemn such dreadful treatment of…
The latest issue of Grapevine Magazine – the magazine for the East Anglia district of the Methodist Church has just been released. You can download it by clicking the image below :
While I was washing up the other morning and looking out of the kitchen window, I was watching the birds eating me out of house and home with the seeds on the bird table. What a wonderful sight – there were sparrows and our faithful robin and his wife (I think!) and the blackbird and…
Our 10 minute service this week reflects on Psalm 119:10 and we sing To be in Your presence.
Acts 17:11 They searched the Scriptures daily to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth. Enjoying a meal recently, as one of a party of five, two of us were bemoaning the constant repetition of some of the modern Christian songs and I apologised to a younger member of the party because she may…
Sue retires after spending 10 years working for the Ipswich Circuit.
Elmsett Methodist Church held their March Coffee morning in aid of the people of Ukraine.
Fifth Sunday in Lent. Year C 3rd April 2022 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 43 v16-21; Psalm 126; Philippians 3 v4b-14; John 12 v1-8. An outpouring of love. The gospel passage today tells us of an incident at the house of Lazarus, Mary and Martha in the village of Bethany, not far from the city of…
This series of “Thoughts for the Day” is inspired by the study series, NOTORIOUS, written by Jeff Lucas. He and Pastor Brent Cunningham discuss 9 different characters from the Bible who we would possibly call rogues, scoundrels or scallywags. Each one however can teach us something of our faith. THE MOB at THESSALONICA – Paul…