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Issue 59 |
| Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of THE BUZZ. THE BUZZ is a great resource that brings the whole Connexion together and allows us to share successful ideas between districts, circuits, churches and church groups. If you have any success stories you would like to promote and share, then please get in touch and let us know how God is working in your local area.
Four more exciting and encouraging stories from around Methodism. The contacts provided will be pleased to give you more information. |
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| WORSHIP - Harvest gathering |
We recently celebrated Harvest Festival by having a café-style service instead of our normal morning worship. Members of the local Anglican church and other friends joined with us for coffee and cakes and we looked at pictures via PowerPoint and read poems and narrations celebrating God's greatness. Visitors enjoyed it so much they were loath to go home, so refreshments continued to be served well after worship had ended! |
| E-mail contact: Georgina Brotherton - georgina.brotherton@talktalk.net |
Phone contact: 0113 260 2284 |
| WORSHIP - A church reborn |
| The Methodist Church in Dumfries closed over 25 years ago. Now it is back and part of St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church. This arrangement became formalised by the signing of a covenant between the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway and the Glasgow Methodist Circuit. We recently held a ‘Big Sing’ to commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Charles Wesley. Sixteen local churches sang nine Wesley hymns with about 400 people present altogether. A big and glorious sound was made! It was a truly joyful occasion and a sign to the wider Church in Scotland of a way of working together for the future. |
| E-mail contact: Revd Andrew MacKenzie - Epimeth@aol.com |
| Phone contact: 01387 254056 |
| Website: www.episcopaldumfries.org |
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LEARNING AND CARING - Fellowship and feasting |
The Berkswich Luncheon Club is ‘church’ in a totally different setting. Each month we provide a three-course meal of home-cooked food for local elderly residents alongside entertainment, often provided by our own members. In school holidays, grandchildren entertain with dance, juggling and magic tricks. We offer the challenge of the gospel through our hospitality, conversation and service. For several of our members, many of whom are by no means members of our worshipping community, the Luncheon Club is their church. |
| E-mail contact: Revd Jeff Reynolds - jeff.reynolds@virgin.net |
| Phone contact: 01785 661369 |
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SERVICE - Street Chaplains |
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A team of 14 Street Chaplains, accompanied by the neighbourhood police team, went out onto the streets of Leeds city centre one Friday night, chatting and offering help to the revellers coming out of the pubs and clubs and the taxi drivers and door keepers who work throughout the evening. It was a real step forward in terms of the Church's mission - getting outside our buildings and onto the streets. So much of our work is concerned with the daytime life of Leeds but this is a project which addressed one of the busiest times in the life of the city. |
E-mail contact: Revd Dr Adrian Burdon - adrian.burdon@btinternet.com |
| Phone contact: 0113 275 2793 |
| Website: http://www.leedsmethodist.org.uk/index.html |
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