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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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Hundreds of breakfasts served at a fundraiser in Cornwall
19 March 2025
Camborne Wesley Methodist Church, alongside the local committee of Cancer Research UK, has helped to fight cancer with a Big Breakfast that has raised over £6000. This is the 22nd year that the fundraiser has been held at the church.
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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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We've laughed, cried, worshipped, created together
05 March 2025
"Relationship, authenticity, community and trust – that’s where our whole heart seemed to be this weekend”
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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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When the ships come in
18 February 2025
The Revd Helen Cameron, President of the Methodist Conference, has visited The Seafarers Centre at Tilbury, operated by QVSR - Queen Victoria Seafarers Rest and part of the Methodist family.
“As we drove around I was reminded how important the work here is. In a global world, our society is dependent on our ports. I was moved by how person-centered the whole project is."
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The ‘Cathedral of the Potteries’ to transform into an educational centre
17 February 2025
Known as the ‘Cathedral of the Potteries’, Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley is in the process of being acquired by the charity Re-form Heritage which plans to transform the chapel into a centre for education and events.
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