Our Stories
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Julie's story of forced adoption
27 March 2025
Julie tells the story of how her birth mother was forced to give her up for adoption after being sent to a Methodist Mother and Baby home in 1962.
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Professional theatre group to perform in a Methodist Church
26 March 2025
A Methodist Church in Durham is preparing to welcome actors from Ensemble ’84 who will make their theatrical debut in a play considered one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written.
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Education in Africa, creating opportunity and hope
24 March 2025
At the beginning of the year, the President-designate of Methodist Church in Britain, Rev. Richard Andrew, visited the United Church of Zambia to attend the 60th Anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Church. Amongst the Institutions and communities that he visited were three schools that are representative of the types of Institutions commonly found everywhere across the Continent.
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Waiting for water
19 March 2025
Dr. Andrew Ashdown, Partnership Coordinator for Africa, shares these thoughts ahead of World Water Day, held on 22 March. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water.
“We have waited all day by the water-hole, but there is not enough water to fill even a small bucket.”
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Wellbeing - A Lent journey to transformation and renewal
17 March 2025
Tracey Collins, Wellbeing Officer in the South West Peninsula District, shares her thoughts on wellbeing during Lent.
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Elizabeth White: A teenage preacher in 19-century England
11 March 2025
At just 15 years old, Elizabeth White became a local preacher, a testament to the Primitive Methodists' revolutionary stance on a woman’s role in religious life.
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Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher: Paving the way for female preachers
03 March 2025
Mary Bosanquet-Fletcher rejected her comfortable upbringing to set up an orphanage and school. In the late eighteenth century, she became one of the first female Methodist preachers and was instrumental in persuading John Wesley to allow women to be lay preachers. This is the first profile of prominent Methodist Women written to celebrate Women’s History month.
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How Cream Teas and scones created social connections
26 February 2025
In rural Denby Dale in the Yorkshire West Methodist District, Cream Teas is an initiative of the Denby Dale Centre that brings people together, offering them a warm space, warm conversations and tea and scones every week.
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Praying with a prisoner of war
20 February 2025
"The guards constantly kicked us, hit us…… but I met these guys who are like priests, and they helped me to understand that I can talk to God and ask him for help, ask him for support."
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Konstantin from Mariupol in Ukraine was a prisoner of war for more than three months, he is now being supported in Germany by the Methodist Church in Britain's partnership coordinator for Europe. -
Ministry during war
18 February 2025
When the invasion of Ukraine began three years ago, millions of people became refugees as they sought safety from the war. Some of them stayed within Ukraine, moving to the west of the country where many were supported by Yulia Starodubets, a pastor with the United Methodist Church there.
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What next for displaced families?
18 February 2025
As we mark the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Louise Schlich, from High Street Methodist Church, Harpenden, shares how their church has been supporting families taking refuge from the conflict.
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Kirkham Methodist Church is committed to going green
11 February 2025
Kirkham Methodist Church in Lancashire is making significant strides towards sustainability as part of its commitment to becoming an Eco Church.
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