Our Stories
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Roche Methodist Church's Warm Welcome Spaces: nurturing community spirit
25 September 2024
Launched in May, Roche Methodist Church’s Warm Welcome Spaces initiative has quickly become a vital part of the local community, offering more than just a warm meal and a friendly face.
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Baildon Methodist Church is the second A Rocha Gold award in the Yorkshire West District
24 September 2024
Baildon Methodist Church’s congregation in the Yorkshire West Methodist District works relentlessly to make its building better for the environment and its community since 2006. In June 2024, the church received its Eco Church Gold Awards from A Rocha UK.
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How opening a Repair Café benefits the community
18 September 2024
Sustainable, life-affirming and community building, the Meon Valley Repair Café in the Southampton Methodist District is a monthly initiative encouraging people to repair their possessions instead of buying new ones.
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Sunshine and Showers
17 September 2024
Brenda Mosedale from Mint Methodist Church in Exeter shares this blog on how she used the Sunshine and Showers resources to help her church consider different forms of prayer.
Sunshine and Showers is a six-session course looking at six different prayer paradoxes.
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Entangled Pasts and Presents - responding to the legacy of transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans
13 September 2024
As the President and Vice-President of the Conference have written, “The transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity.” It was not just an historical event. Slavery enabled Britain to generate unprecedented wealth from which our society still benefits today.
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Chaplaincy and prisons
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Interview with Revd John Travell, author of As I Remember It
11 September 2024
The book As I Remember It, Memories of Growing Up in the National Children’s Homes 1934-1951, is a bittersweet walk on memory lane, recanting the assets, challenges and limitations of the National Children’s Home, as well as providing food for thoughts on the current care system.
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The joys of rural ministry
10 September 2024
Having grown up in the coal mining communities of Derbyshire, Melanie Burnside spent 15 years in seaside towns of the East coast and is now following a calling to minister in the countryside. In this blog she shares the joy of rural ministry.
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Visit to the Methodist Conference Sri Lanka
05 September 2024
Revd Helen Cameron, President of the Methodist Conference, writes about her recent visit to the Methodist Conference in Sri Lanka.
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A new chapter for Methodist Research in Oxford
30 August 2024
The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History (OCMCH), a cornerstone of Methodist research since 2007, closed its doors on 31 July 2024. The closure of the centre marks a significant shift in the landscape of Methodist scholarship in Oxford. A new reading room in the city centre marks a new beginning for researchers and heritage enthusiasts
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Making new with old, Killinghall Methodist Church's journey to become carbon neutral
28 August 2024
Located in a growing Yorkshire village, Killinghall Methodist Church has a small but mighty congregation that have worked hard to modernise its building and decrease carbon emissions.
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From a gazebo to a Warm Hub, Kirkham Methodist Church is here for its community
27 August 2024
Started during the pandemic to provide food for the community, Take & Make in Kirkham Methodist Church in the Lancashire Methodist District, has evolved and now offers a warm hub for people to sit, have a drink (and biscuits) and a chat.
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