News
-
Chair of the Liverpool District receives Woman of the Year Award
08 July 2024
The Revd Dr Sheryl Anderson, Chair of the Liverpool District, has received The Josephine Butler Woman of the Year Award during a service held at Liverpool Cathedral in June.
Read more -
Statement following Election
05 July 2024
Joint statement following the General Election from Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Church leaders
Read more -
Global Relationships Pre-Conference
03 July 2024
The Methodist Church in Britain welcomed representatives from fourteen Partner Churches to this year’s Methodist Conference that took place in Leeds, 27th June to 3rd July.
Read more -
3Generate
02 July 2024
The Methodist Conference has heard the voices of children and young people asking the Church to tackle issues of justice and to support their journey of discipleship.
Read more -
Christian Aid and Methodist Church renew commitment to work together
02 July 2024
The Methodist Church in Britain and Christian Aid have today re-committed their joint work to overcome global injustice and poverty.
Read more -
The Methodist Church welcome, affirm and celebrate the contribution of single people
01 July 2024
The Methodist Conference, currently meeting in Leeds, has overwhelmingly voted to welcome, affirm and celebrate the contribution of single people to the Methodist Church.
Read more -
God for All at the Methodist Conference
01 July 2024
The Methodist Conference, currently meeting in Leeds, has been celebrating the work achieved so far as part of the Church’s God For All Strategy for Evangelism and Growth. This strategy sees the Methodist Church embracing God’s call to change and grow in the 21st century, so that new people become disciples of Jesus Christ, faith deepens for everyone, and diverse communities and churches experience transformation.
Read more -
Conference votes for more research on online church and online communion
01 July 2024
The Methodist Conference, currently taking place in Leeds, requested a report for the 2026 Conference on online churches and the framework that would be needed to facilitate them.
Read more -
President and Vice-President elected and inducted for 2024/2025
30 June 2024
The new President is Revd Helen Cameron and the new Vice-President is Carolyn Godfrey.
Read more -
Highlights of the Methodist Conference
25 June 2024
The Methodist Conference 2024 will occur at the Royal Armouries and New Dock Hall, Armouries Way in Leeds from 27 June until 3 July 2024.
Read more -
The Methodist Church in Great Britain celebrates 50 years of women’s ordination as presbyters
25 June 2024
The Methodist Church in Britain is proud to mark the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women as ministers (presbyters). Although women were permitted to become deacons in the Methodist Church from 1890, they were not ordained as presbyters until 2 July 1974 at the Methodist Conference in Bristol.
Read more -
Statement by the Methodist Church in Britain on the Conflict in Sudan
18 June 2024
The Methodist Church in Britain is profoundly concerned by the ongoing violence and the worsening situation in Sudan. It is causing unimaginable suffering to millions of people.
Read more