The Easter Offering Dedication Service will be at Caldy Valley Neighbourhood Church on Sunday 28th April, 2013 at 6.30pm.
The Preacher will be Rev'd Marcus Torchon from the Wirral Cicuit & of Haiti. All are Welcome. For directions to get to Caldy Valley Church, visit their website. At 2pm on Friday 30th November, Mr. Graham Evans, Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale, will be officially opening the 2012 Art Exhibition, 'Creative Winter'. We invite all to come along and welcome him to Frodsham Methodist Church and to be the first to see the entries to this year's Exhibition. Please join us if you can. All welcome. The Exhibiton will then be open throughout the weekend: Friday 30th November from 2pm to 5pm Saturday 1st December from 10am to 5pm Sunday 2nd December from 1pm to 4pm Stalls : Pluck-a-Duck : Children’s Activities : Traidcraft : Refreshments Admission Free : Programmes £2.00 For more details, e-mail Exhibition Organiser Mr. Alun Evans on artexhibition@frodshammethodist.org. Today, we welcome our new Minister, the Rev'd. Denise Harding officially to Frodsham and to our Circuit.
Ms Harding will be celebrating at our monthly 9.30am service of Holy Communion and then there will be a Circuit Service beginning at 6pm, though you are invited to come from 5pm. This will be led by our Chair of District, Rev'd. Peter Barber. This will be both a service of welcome and also to celebrate the joining of the Chester and Delamere Forest Circuits. In addition, Mr. Ken Jackson, a local preacher from Chester, will be leading our usual 10.45 Worship. All are invited to this special day in our Church and we look forward to seeing you. The service arrangements are as follows:- 4.30pm to 5.15pm: Messy Church 5.15 to 6.00pm: Family-friendly Service 6.00pm to 6.30pm: Food, Chat and Farewells Please feel welcome to attend all or just some of the parts of the event that is being arranged. This is a Circuit service and we also welcome friends from all the other churches in the Delamere Forest Circuit. Pat will also celebrate her final service of Holy Communion with us at 9.30am. A Service of welcome and installation of Susie Treeton as the Chaplain of Chapelfields Care Home will take place this Sunday, 8th July at 2.30pm at Chapelfields Care Home, Frodsham. Chapelfields is managed by Methodist Homes for the Aged (MHA). Please do come along and share in this important event. All welcome. Chester Methodist Circuit in partnership with the Delamere Forest Circuit present: A Taste of Haiti
Saturday 31st March 2012 at 7.00 p.m. Supper Event at Caldy Valley Neighbourhood Church, Chester, CH3 5PR The speaker will be the Rev’d. Marcus Torchon. Tickets £8.00 per head. Places are limited. Please book your place by telephoning Sheila Roberts on 01244 336754 by 25th March. Raffle Proceeds to Methodist Fund for World Mission The second session of a five week course will take place on Friday 9th March at 10.30 am followed by sessions on 16th, 23rd, and 30th March. The course is entitled, “Handing on the Torch”
Although they have a link, each session stands alone, and you need not attend every one if that is difficult. They will be held at the home of Colin & Aelison Wilson: 1, Elm Rise (off Hillside Road); Tel. (01928) 731235. Sessions start at 10.30 and finish at about 11.45 Joint Circuit Messy Choices at Frodsham Methodist Church Sunday 4th March, 2012 Starting time 4.30pm for crafts and activities, Worship at 5.15pm followed by tea Everyone welcome – all ages! A time to chat, meet and make friends and chill. Come for all or part of the time. There will be crafts, bread making, parachute people, decorating stones, build a tower, an obstacle course and the chance to decorate a mural. This will be a chance for the new Circuit (made up of the Chester Circuit and Delamere Forest Circuit) to meet together for worship.
Afternoon Tea of sandwiches, pizza, salads and cake for all! For more information text or ring Andrea Ellams on 07749877823. Frodsham's service for Women’s World Day of Prayer this year is entitled "Let Justice Prevail". This service will take place at St Laurence Church in Frodsham on Friday 2nd March, 2012, starting at 7:30pm. The speaker will be Mrs. Liz Holmes. The service will be signed for the deaf. All are warmly invited to attend.
Year Sevens and above are invited to:
THE MIX YOUTH EVENT on SUNDAY 26th FEBRUARY – 4pm START (ADMISSION FREE) This includes a mix of workshops: DANCE WORKSHOP (led by professional dance students), ARTS WORKSHOP (led by a community artist), DRUMMING WORKSHOP (using various percussion instruments - led by a qualified drummer) PLUS EVENING ENTERTAINMENT with THE IDENTITY & A LOCAL ENTERTAINER (to be confirmed) VENUE: WESLEY CHURCH CENTRE, ST. JOHN STREET, CHESTER If you would like to go please let Andrea know (07749877823). Transport can be arranged. There is a variety of events locally to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. 22nd January, 3.30pm: United Service in Chester Cathedral where the preacher will be Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor. 23rd January, 7.30pm: United Service in S. Luke’s Roman Catholic Church, Frodsham, where the preacher will be Rev'd. David Copley (Methodist Supernumerary Minister in this Circuit). Followed by refreshments. Churches open during the week for prayer: 18th January: St. Laurence’s Parish Church, 12 noon – 1pm 19th January: Main Street Community Church (also Wellspring Christian Trust), 10am – 3pm 20th January: King’s Church, 10am – 11am 24th January: Frodsham Methodist Church, 10am – 12 noon (followed by soup lunch) To find out more, visit the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland website here. We are delighted that Janet Batey, member at The Hurst Methodist Church, Kingsley, has now completed her Local Preacher studies.
There will be a special Circuit Recognition Service on Friday 13th January at 7.00pm at The Hurst, when Janet will give her testimony and be received as a fully-accredited Local Preacher. Please come and support Janet at this event. For more information, e-mail enquiries@frodshammethodist.com. For our Christmas trip we are going to Deeside Ice Ring preceded by tea in Pizza Hut. The trip is planned for Thursday 15th December, meeting in the church car park at 5.15pm returning by around 10pm (though we will drop off at home for ease). The cost will be just £4.00 for the skating (including skate hire) plus whatever you choose to spend in Pizza Hut so please bring enough to cover both. Even if you don’t like skating, come along anyway for a fun evening watching the others ‘skate’!
We need to have completed parental/carer consent forms for you to be able to come so please speak to Rev’d Pat. Many thanks. Tickets are now available from Valarie and Frank Ball or by e-mailing enquiries@frodshammethodist.org for the sing-a-long at Frodsham Methodist Church on Thursday 22nd December at 7.30pm.
Tickets £6 including tea or coffee and mince pie. There will be an Ecumenical Bible Study on each of the three Fridays in Advent, December 2nd 9th and 16th. It is entitled ‘In God’s Own Time’ and is to be led by Aelison Wilson.
It will be held at the home of Ruth Caldwell, starting at 10.30 am. All most welcome. Further details e-mail enquiries@frodshammethodist.org. DATE: SATURDAY 3rd DECEMBER, 2011
VENUE: WESLEY CHURCH CENTRE, ST JOHN STREET, CHESTER, CH1 1DA featuring Ben Pearson & Jodi-Dawn Lewis and THE IDENTITY (young people from Wesley Methodist Church) Check out www.thisispromotions.com for all the performing artists (Tickets £4 - Under 18s £2) : Doors Open 7.15pm This is the first major event to celebrate, in anticipation, the merging of the Chester and Delamere Forest Circuits in September, 2012. All are invited to come along - there will be informal time, refreshments and an act of worship. There will be no Evening Worship at Frodsham. Address of Caldy Valley Methodist and URC Community Church: Caldy Valley Road, Boughton, Chester, CH3 5PR The new Connexional Prayer Diaries 'Run the Race' will soon be available. They are £3.15 each if ordered in bulk, otherwise £3.50 plus postage if you want to order individually yourselves. If you would like me to order one of these for you could you please let me know, stating whether the large print version is required, as soon as possible (at least by 22nd August) and I will place a bulk order. Alternatively please let Ken Blasbery know in Chapel and he can pass this on to me. The Methodist Prayer Diary contains themed prayers for each day of the month as well as prayers for particular countries and situations in addition to each of the Methodist Districts. Peter Sandercock (Circuit Admin) Thursday 9th June, 7:30pm, at Frodsham Methodist Church:
District Testimony Service for Rev. Nick Cutts and Rev. Sue Levitt It is Methodist custom that all Probationer Ministers share in a Testimony Service prior to their ordination. There wil be a service held at Frodsham Methodist Church on Thursday 9th June, 2011, at 7:30pm, in recognition of their imminent ordination during the Methodist Conference. All are welcome to come along and support them on this special occasion. Mrs. Levitt is currently stationed in our Circuit, the Delamere Forest Circuit. Be early for a seat at the back! |
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