NOTICES FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY 27 APRIL 2025
SUNDAY 27 APRIL
10.45am Our worship today is a “Local Arrangement” service, led by members of the congregation.
Refreshments in the form of coffee/tea will be served immediately following this service and we hope you will be able to stay for a while to enjoy these.
Easter Offering: If you still have an Easter Offering gift envelope for the Methodist World Mission Fund, please return it on the offering plate today or next week at the latest. If you have not received an envelope, there are still several available. Please ask if you cannot see one.
TUESDAY 29 APRIL
7.30pm The postponed Annual General Meeting of the Wylam and District Churches will be held in the foyer here this evening. This meeting is open to allmembers of the congregations of our churches and we do hope that many will take the opportunity to come along to hear about the work of the churches and possibly share your own thoughts or ideas.
WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL
7.30 to 9.00pm The Wednesday Evening Fellowship resumes this evening in the foyer with the fifth week of studies, intended for Lent but which the group intends to conclude. The overall theme is “Soul Food”. This week is titled “Soul Songs. Nourished by music from the heart”. Bible passages this week:- Psalm 118. 1-2 & 19-29, and Luke 19. 28-40. A reminder that these meetings are open to anyone, from any church or none.
THURSDAY 1 MAY
Today is the Local Election Day during which our church premises are being used once again as a Polling Station. For this reason, please note, there will be no Soft Play session today. Back next Thursday, 8 May.
12 to 2.30pm SHELTER – “In Conversation with George Clarke”. There’s a invitation to join the charity “Shelter” in an exclusive event today with renowned architect and TV presenter George Clarke, at the Grand Hotel, Gosforth Park. Full details and ticket booking arrangements on the poster on the notice board at church (or email Brian for a copy of the poster, interested.)
SATURDAY 3 MAY
7.00 to 9.00pm The Wylam and District Churches Youth Club and Gathering resumesherethis evening. From 7.00 to 8.00pm, it’s a more traditional youth club with a wide variety of games including board games, pool, table tennis and badminton and then, from 8.00pm, for all who wish to stay, The Gathering will meet up in the foyer with some food, perhaps a more quiet game and some chat and discussion about Christian faith and life issues – or if you wish you can just come at 8.00pm for this session. Anyone from school year 6 and above is welcome and there’s no need to book. Weekly sub. remains at £1.
7.30pm We are invited by friends at Haydon Bridge Methodist Church to an evening of Christian Music and Testimony with the Newcastle City Temple Salvation Army Band and Songsters. Admission £8 (pay at the door). All are welcome. Supper to follow.
SUNDAY 4 MAY
10.45am Our worship today is to be led by our Minister, Rev Fiona Calverey. This service will include Holy Communion.
Refreshments of coffee or tea will be served immediately following this service.
EASTER OFFERING Envelopes for this annual appeal are still available and we are all asked to take one and return it on the offering plate with our gifts today or next Sunday, to help the work of the Methodist Church World Mission Fund. Monies given help to support mission partners working overseas, people in mission appointments and overseas students in training for ministry. If you are a tax-payer and willing to donate and include “Gift Aid” (which adds 25% to your gift) please make sure you complete the details on the envelope.
Easter Offering Dedication Service The service at which gifts from all churches in the Tynedale Circuit will be received and dedicated,will be held at 6.00pm on Sunday 25 May at Catton Methodist Church. The theme of the service will be ‘Education for All, Hope for All’, focusing on every person’s right to education. During the service, representatives (men and women) from each of our Methodist Churches in Tynedale Circuit will be invited to read four stories telling of people who are committed to changing lives and transforming communities through education, and there will be an eight voice dramatised reading. The service will be followed by a faith supper. Please come and celebrate the work of our partner churches around the world, funded by the World Mission Fund.
COMING SOON
Saturday 17 May, from 10.30am to 12.30pm, there’s to be a Wylam and District Churches Christian Aid Coffee Morning,with delicious cakes, biscuits and various stalls in Wylam Institute. Volunteers are needed to help with stalls and refreshments. Please contact Robin Piette (01661 853727) if you can help or offer to make cakes, biscuits or scones – Many thanks.
CHURCH RECYCLING Although you sometimes would not realise if you looked in our waste receptacles, particularly the bin in the kitchen, we have, for many years, tried to recycle what waste we can from the church premises. There are labelled facilities in the “back room” off the utility area, – for paper/card, tins, plastic bottles and glass. (All these, if recyclable under current Northumberland practice.) If you cannot easily access this room, please leaveclean items on the central worktop in the kitchen.
This is increasingly important – for one reason we are working to become an ECO Church in which recycling should be the norm, but the Environment Agency is also tightening up the regulations. Although we are exempt for two years, we soon with be under a legal requirement requiring enhanced waste recycling from all businesses and charities, including places of worship. Please do all you can to help.
RICHARD PORTER’S ORDINATION Richard Porter is to be ordained at the Methodist Conference in Telford, Shropshire, on Sunday 29 June. Richard expresses his gratitude for the love and support shown to him by people from Tynedale, his “sending Circuit”, in 2021, and wishes to invite any who wish to apply for tickets to attend the ordination. This you can do through the following link:- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-methodist-conference-26-june-to-2-july-2025-telford-tickets-1280972496219?aff=oddtdtcreator
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK – Help requested! Christian Aid Week will be held this year between 11 and 17 May, and volunteers are urgently needed to assist with the delivery of the essential leaflets and envelopes around the village. If you would like to help, please contact Michelle Coleman ([email protected]) as soon as possible. Or, if you have any queries, please text or phone Michelle on 0787 400 3410. If you are not aware, envelopes are only to be delivered to properties, people are invited to return envelopes themselves. Thank you.
If you are unable to help with envelopes but would still like to be involved, you may like to pray for the work of Christian Aid around the world. Christian aid has shared seven Bible verses about love and kindness at https://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/worship-prayer-and-campaigning-materials/7-bible-verses-about-about-love-and-kindness.
FOOD BANK Contributions of non-perishable items are always invited for our collection, which goes to the West Northumberland Food Bank at Hexham, and for which boxes can be found in the atrium, just inside the front doors. Please make contributions when you can. Every little helps.
PRAYER FOOTNOTE What do you ask of us Lord? You know our possibilities, you know our frailties, our weaknesses, our prejudices. Yet, you still call us to your work. You challenge us to stand against injustice; to overcome our fears; to act as your hands; to be your voice; to be your ambassadors on earth emulating your preference for those living in poverty and the marginalised. With you in us and beside us we can fulfil what you ask of us. Amen Hilary Evans
Information to be circulated? You can contact Brian Japes
Tel:- 01661 852151 or email [email protected]