Our Stories
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Land’s End to John O’Groats for Englesea Brook
06 May 2026
An inspirational Methodist preacher is getting on his bike for a charity cycle ride across the length of Britain to mark his 75th birthday – just months after a hip replacement.
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Geoff Dickinson, who will bike from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise funds for Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum of Primitive Methodism in Cheshire, is doubly bionic in the hips after a replacement operation in September last year. -
Three months in to the Digital Transformation Programme
05 May 2026
What I'm hearing, again and again, is not a story about technology. It's a story about people.
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Roker hustings for local elections
05 May 2026
Like many local churches, Roker Methodist and URC Church in Sunderland, with the support of the local Church of England, held a hustings event ahead of the local elections.
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"The church has stuck around when everything else has moved away."
01 May 2026
“The church has stuck around when everything else has moved away. That is witness in itself, God hasn’t given up on this community.”
When the mines closed, it took more than the jobs. It stripped the village of its identity, its security and tore through the fabric of the close-knit community. The Methodist Church at Willington has adapted to the challenge
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The Ethos Group
30 April 2026
The calling of the Methodist Church is to respond to the gospel of God’s love in Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission. Resources published to support Our Calling for use across the Methodist Church are scrutinised by the Ethos Group.
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Channel Islands Anniversary
29 April 2026
Methodist churches on the Channel Islands celebrated a combined nearly 300 years with anniversaries as the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference paid a special visit.
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Faith and work in Cambridge
24 April 2026
Cambridge is a global centre of learning and excellence. Castle Street Methodist in the city has become a melting pot of professionals from a wide range of disciplines.
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Growing mission to families
24 April 2026
A chapel outside the town of Nantwich in Cheshire has shown how mission can grow when a church chooses to welcome young families and listen to its community.
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The Book Room
22 April 2026
Tucked inside Hathersage Methodist Church, a quiet revolution is taking place – one made not of noise, but of pages turning.
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Walking the Walk
22 April 2026
Keen walkers are being sought to test parts of a new pilgrimage route designed by a Past President of the Methodist Conference and launched in honour of a pioneering abolitionist.
The 80-mile Equiano Way is due to open next March and runs from Sheffield to Hull via the Epworth Old Rectory.
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The positives of safeguarding, working with the media team
20 April 2026
Karen Allen, Regional Safeguarding Manager for the North East, shares this blog in the series reflecting on ten years since the Past Cases Review.
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Not your ordinary marriage
14 April 2026
Last weekend, 11 and 12 April, the Methodist Church attended the National Wedding Show in London for the first time. A team of six people from across the Connexion helped celebrate the Methodist Church as a loving, inclusive and welcoming denomination, the perfect place to consider getting married.
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