NOTICES FOR THE TWO WEEKS COMMENCING SUNDAY 18 MAY 2025
Please note that with Half Term shortly, this issue covers a two week period
SUNDAY 18 MAY
10.45am We welcome our Minister, Rev Fiona Calverey, who is to lead our worship this morning. This service will include Holy Communion, in which all are warmly invited to share.
We also extend a welcome to friends from both Prudhoe and Stocksfield Methodist Churches, who are joining with us today for this special United Service.
Refreshments in the form of coffee/tea and biscuits will be served immediately following this service and we hope you will be able to stay for a while to enjoy these and have a chat.
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY
7.00 to 9.00pm The Wednesday Fellowship are meeting this evening for a shared meal together, which by kind invitation of Anne and Mick Wheelwright will be held at 6 Nunnykirk Close, Ovingham. Those who usually attend will be receiving details directly, but if you haven’t been before and would like to join in, please either contact the hosts or Brian Japes (details at the foot of these notes.) Please note the usual slightly earlier start time when we eat together.
THURSDAY 22 MAY
9.15 to 11.30am “Soft Play” for pre-school children, accompanied by a parent or guardian, continues in the hall today. Just £3 per family. Come at any time and for as long as you like.
SATURDAY 24 MAY
No meeting of the Youth Club/Gathering this evening as this weekend sees the beginning of the schools half term.
SUNDAY 25 MAY
10.45am In place of the ‘local arrangement’ service shown on the plan for today, our worship will take the form of a ‘Reader Service’, led by Brian Japes.
Refreshments of coffee or tea will be served immediately following this service.
6.00pm We are all invited to share in the Easter Offering Dedication Serviceat Catton Methodist Church, when gifts from all churches in the Circuitfor this appeal for the Methodist Fund for World Mission will be received and dedicated. 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 that are funded by the World Mission Fund.
WEDNESDAY 28 MAY
Half Term this week so no Wednesday Evening Fellowship. Back next week when the group will be watching another episode of “The Chosen”
THURSDAY 29 MAY
Half Term means that Soft Play takes a short break this week. Back as usual next week.
SATURDAY 31 MAY
Once again, as this weekend is within Half Term, the Youth Club/Gathering is taking a break. Back next week.
5.30 for 6.00pm A Celebration Evening forthe 20th Anniversary of “Hope for South Africa’s Children” is being held at Prudhoe Methodist Church. Please see the full details below.
SUNDAY 1 JUNE
10.45am Worship here today is to be led by our Minister, Rev Fiona Calverey. This service will include Holy Communion.
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“HOPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S CHILDREN” A Celebration Evening is planned to mark the 20th Anniversary of this charity. This will be held in Prudhoe Methodist Church Hall on Saturday 31 May, 5.30 for a 6.00pm start. David and Glen Smith, who were involved with the establishment of this charity, would love to see some of their Wylam friends at this event.
There will be South African food, music and singing, memories from the team that went out in 2006, “then and now” photos of children who grew up at Rehoboth and a presentation about the development of the charity.
Tickets are now available at £5 each – donations also welcome. For tickets, please contact David or Glen on 01661 844933 or 0798030338.
EVELYN WILSON A final opportunity to request a service sheet prior to Evelyn’s funeral service, which is due to take place at Bramcote Crematorium, near Nottingham, on Friday 6 June at 2.00pm. Requests to Brian Japes please. Details of the webcast of the funeral (published in last week’s notices) will be shown again in the next issue of these notices. We now understand that the webcast can be viewed for up to 28 days after the service.
“OUR FRAGILE EARTH”A further reminder of this important weekend, Sat/Sun18/19October, aiming to stir-up, inspire, educate and equip residents in Wylam and District to care for the planet, as individuals, as a community and as a nation. We hope you have already noted the dates and are going to get involved. Plans are well advanced, with exhibitions and demonstrations from 2.00pm on the Saturday, both here and in St Oswin’s Church Hall. Then, at 6.30pm, there will be a panel of keynote speakers in the church here, representing a wide range of views and experience.
On the Sunday at 11.00am there will be a United Harvest Festival Service at St Oswin’s, led by Rev. David Coleman, who is “Eco Chaplain for Scotland”, with a lunch to follow in the church hall – for which tickets (free) will be required.
CHRISTIAN AID WEEK A reminder as this important week ends, that every household in Wylam should have received a collection envelope during the week which we are invited to return, with our donations, via the letterbox at Wylam Institute by 31 May, or alternatively to donate on-line at https://www.christianaid.org.uk
PLAN AND DUTY ROTA A copy of the new Circuit Plan of Preachers for June to August can now be seen on the notice board together, very soon if not there already, with a list of Sunday duties in this church. If you feel able to offer help with any of these duties, please speak to one of our Church Stewards. Please don’t just leave it to others!
FOOD BANK Another occasional reminder that gifts of non-perishable items for the West Northumberland Food Bank are always welcome. The need does not diminish. Boxes to receive donations are located in the atrium to the left of the doors as you leave.
PRAYER FOOTNOTE Merciful God, author of the cosmos and reader of souls; we give you the worship that to you alone is due. We offer to you all that we are and have, our bodies and our minds. Forgive us when we conform to values and standards that fail to reflect your purpose. By the power of your Spirit, who raised Jesus from death, transform us through and through, so that we become effective signs and agents of your perfect will. Amen John Hellyer
Information to be circulated? You can contact Brian Japes Tel:- 01661 852151 or email [email protected]