Our Stories
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Kairos Arts
29 July 2025
What do lumps of unformed white clay and plasticine have in common? In the hands of Kairos Arts, a Methodist-backed charity in Jersey, they are life changing for hundreds of people.
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“Pastoral care is seen as everyone's responsibility in the Methodist Way of Life”
29 July 2025
In this week’s chaplaincy blog, Kate Ellis shares her experience as Anna Chaplain in the Lincolnshire Methodist District.
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Baby Baskets brings hope to Manchester's most vulnerable families
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Gaza: what do this Sunday’s Bible readings have to say to us?
25 July 2025
Thoughts from Paul Spray, member of the Connexional Council.
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Sharing Our Story and singing Our Song at the Tolpuddle Festival 2025
23 July 2025
The President, the Revd Richard Andrew and Vice President, Matthew Forsyth, took part in the recent festival celebrating the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
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“It’s a real privilege to be able to offer the value that we place upon people”
21 July 2025
In this week’s chaplaincy blog, Revd Ian Brown shares his experience as Royal Air Force Chaplain in the Lincolnshire Methodist District.
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Everything is Connected
18 July 2025
The Yorkshire West Methodist District of the Methodist Church is bringing an exhibition, Everything is Connected, drawn from the Methodist Modern Art Collection to Bradford this autumn, 5 September – 12 October. The artworks will be displayed as part of the City of Culture celebrations across five venues in Bradford city centre, Ben Rhydding, Thornton and Apperley Bridge. Bars and cafes along North Parade in Bradford will also be displaying reproductions of the artworks.
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Prayer Handbook sings a new song
18 July 2025
The Methodist Prayer Handbook is changing! The new edition, available to purchase now with delivery from the beginning of September, has a contemporary, dynamic look and style. This renewing and remodelling of the Handbook re-energises and reforms it. With a refreshing of how some prayers are presented, the Handbook can be used to nurture prayer life in many more and different ways.
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Seeds of engagement
15 July 2025
A Community Garden at Moor Lane Methodist Church in Crosby planted the seeds of community engagement with their garden and their monthly attendance to the local market.
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Mine be the Glory
15 July 2025
The 139th Durham Miners Gala took place in July. Around 200,000 people attended this annual celebration of community, international solidarity and working-class life. Local circuit EDI officer, Stuart Lawson, explains the relationship between the Methodist Church, the mining community and its legacy, with Durham Methodist Church still playing an active part of the Gala.
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A pilgrimage for justice in North Yorkshire
15 July 2025
Led by Revd John Howard-Norman, minister at Trinity Methodist Church in Middlesbrough, with the support of Helle Sewell from the Darlington District, the pilgrimage for justice brought together local heritage and reflections on peace, justice and love.
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John Wesley, on a unicorn!
10 July 2025
If you were walking down the streets of Castle Cary in Somerset and saw John Wesley riding a unicorn, you could be forgiven for thinking you were having a dream. But this vision is real and it is one of more than 120 scarecrows that are on display in the town as part of its first Scarecrow Festival this July.
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