Circuit Service: A Celebration and Thanksgiving for Lay Ministry – Sunday 20th October 2024

You are invited to join us in a service of Celebration and Thanksgiving for those who provide lay ministries within our Circuit to be held on Sunday 20th October 2024, 2pm at Queensway Methodist Church in Bletchley (MK2 2HB).

This service is to celebrate and thank all lay people who serve our churches and circuit, including in our LEP churches, in roles such as church and circuit stewards, safeguarding officers, property stewards, organists and music leaders, junior church leaders, treasurers, flower arrangers and more, together with local preachers, worship leaders and tutors. Don’t have a lay role in your church or the circuit? You are still warmly invited to join us.

The service will be led by a lay team including Lynn Castle, Ann Harris, Carol Long and Elaine Zemzem.  There will be a time to share with one another over refreshments after the service.

Parking: Please find below information on where to park and note some changes. We encourage car sharing where possible.

Queensway MC Parking Options – updated

We look forward to seeing you!

With best wishes

Lynn Castle, Ann Harris, Carol Long and Elaine Zemzem

MK Methodist Circuit – Monthly Newsletter – August 2023

Please find below the August edition of the Circuit Newsletter.

Conference Business Digest 2023

The Conference 2023 Business Digest is ready to be read online. Read what happened at the 2023 Conference. Click here.

A Justice Seeking Church

The report from the Walking with Micah project, A Justice-Seeking Church was taken to the 2023 Methodist Conference . This report outlines why we do justice, what we do, and how we do it, all as part of the Methodist Church. Join a webinar, listen to the audio version and read a summary of the report here.

The Methodist Conference has overwhelmingly voted to recommit the Methodist Church to being a Justice-seeking Church. The report received by the Conference hopes to encourage more Methodists in acting for justice, along with their local communities, and to focus efforts on contributing to change in key areas including poverty, refugees, the environment, discrimination and peace.

The report is the result of a two-year process of conversation and listening. This involved looking at how Methodists have worked for justice throughout their history and what is being done now, as well as hearing people’s experiences of injustice. The report involved churches, young people, communities and schools sharing their visions of what a just world looks like.

Prayers for Ukraine

Every Friday evening at 7.30pm, the Methodist Peace Fellowship and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, as well as others, pray for peace in Ukraine. All are welcome to join the led sessions regularly or occasionally.

Join here

52 ways to pray

Do you find prayer difficult, boring and frustrating? Or creative, life-giving and transformational? A set of new Methodist prayer cards offers 52 different prompts for creative prayer; different ways that we can fulfil the Methodist Way of Life commitment to “pray daily” as far as we are able, with God’s help. The cards can be used by individuals or groups, at church events onsite and online, in homes, schools and care homes. Early feedback has included: “The teenagers liked them – thought the illustrations were cute/cool and it prompted some good discussion.” “As the focus of a prayer station, at the online Circuit Day of Prayer, I got the following comments: ‘Love the focus and simplicity of the cards’; ‘Wonderful, keeping me focused’.”  

Available to download as a PowerPoint or PDF version for easy use in digital meetings and church services. Or, buy a print pack from Methodist Publishing.

Fundraising tools at your fingertips

Whether you’re dipping your toes into digital fundraising or applying for grant funding – the Methodist Insurance fundraising hub has a range of tools specifically designed for church fundraising.

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