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Spring Fayre at Freeman Memorial Methodist Church – Saturday 29th March 2025

MK Eco Church Network March Update

The March Update from the MK Eco Church Network can be found here:

MK Eco Church Network – March 2025 Update

Note that the next MK Eco Church Network meeting will be held at Queensway Methodist Church in Bletchley on Saturday 5th April 2025, 10.00am – 12.30pm.

To get involved, contact the Eco Church Champion in your church.

CTE’s Bill Snelson Young Ecumenists Fund

Calling all young ecumenists (18-35)

Churches Together in England’s Bill Snelson Fund is offering £££ to help YOU have an ecumenical adventure abroad. Past trips have taken young ecumenists to Japan, the World Council of Churches, Egypt, Taize & more!

Apply here by 31st March 2025

MK Eco Church Network Meeting – Saturday 5th April 2025

Queensway Methodist Church is hosting the next MK Eco Church Network Meeting in the Hall on Saturday 5th April, 10.00-12.30. The meeting will include a talk by Marion Cole and Philippa Tipper, who lead on the Repair Café movement in Milton Keynes. The topic of their talk will be “Opportunities to Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle in Milton Keynes”. This will be an interesting and informative event and will help us all to do our bit to save God’s earth by reducing our waste. Please encourage everyone to come, including our young people. All are welcome.

Our first Quarterly Circuit United Service!

We celebrated St David’s Day as we came together for our first Quarterly Circuit United Service on Sunday 2nd March at Freeman Memorial Methodist Church in Bletchley.
The sun shone, the circuit choir sang and we heard stories related to Wales, St David and Mary Jones and her bible.
Thank you to everyone who took part and those who travelled from around our circuit.
Our next Circuit United Service will be held on Sunday 1st June, 10.30am at West End United Church in Wolverton. All welcome.

Maundy Thursday – Circuit Choir!

Please come and join the Circuit Choir for their next event – a service of music and readings on the evening of Maundy Thursday (17th April).

Rehearsals will be on Thursdays at Freeman, starting at 7.30pm on 27th March. Singers will need to attend at least one rehearsal.

If you would like to come and sing, please contact Julie Gillam j.d.gillam.12@gmail.com

District News: OneVoice Podcast from the Northampton District – March 2025

Celebrating, Wounded Wisdom and All things digital

It’s a moment that not so long ago seemed far off. Kingsthorpe Methodist and Baptist Churches are about to celebrate their local ecumenical partnership (LEP). Revd David Spiers talks to the podcast about the impending celebration service and what the path to this point has been like.

Spectrum are a really interesting organisation; Rob Hufton belongs to it and is behind a conference that will be held in Northamptonshire. ” Wounded Wisdom ” is totally unique and Rob talks to One Voice about the motivations behind the conference and what you’ll experience.  http://spectrumfaith.org.uk

Plus we catch up with Wilhelmina Tan, who is covering Naomi’s role as Digital Enabler for Northampton District. You’ll hear about the training she’s running and how the church can get fresh eyes on what it’s doing.

Tune in to the podcast on your podcast App

District News: New District Diary – Competition!

Revd Sonia Hicks, Chair of the Northampton District, is delighted to officially launch a competition for the upcoming New District Website Diary. The Diary will serve as a central online hub for key events, meetings, training and activities across our District. In celebration of this exciting new resource she is thrilled to introduce a creative competition, for children 11 and under across the District, to help name the diary and to design its logo!

In the process of looking for a creative and inspiring title, along with a simple but eye-catching logo to represent this new shared resource. The winner will receive a special prize of £50 to be presented at May’s Representative Synod.

All the details can be found here and the closing date for entries is 1st May 2025.

Good Luck!

pdf copy of the poster for you to print for your church – District Competition 2025