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Church anniversary
We celebrate our anniversary on the first Sunday in November, celebrating the years since the union of the Centenary and Wesley congregations and further to the earlier history of Methodism in York. This year, we invited Revd Maurice Staton to take our morning service. Maurice was a minister in this circuit some years ago and continues with chaplaincy work at St Leonard’s hospice in York. Maurice preached about newness in the church and after the service joined us for lunch in the hall.
Lunch after our anniversary service
In the evening we had a “local arrangements” service, led by a group from our congregation on the theme of looking back and moving forward. There is a lot of change happening in York Methodism at the moment, not least at Central, so we took the opportunity to step back for a moment and spend some time in quietness and prayer to help us as we take new steps in faith.
Candles lit during prayer at our evening service
Carecent in the Press
Following her commissioning service at Central last Sunday, the new Carecent project manager Nicky Gladstone appears in the Press, welcoming volunteers from York CVS to Carecent as part of National Make a Difference Day. You can read the article at the York Press website.
For more information about the organisations, please see Carecent’s website or the York CVS website.
Big Sing!
On Saturday 13 October 2012 at Central Methodist Church we enjoyed an Iona-style Big Sing with Margaret McLarty, former Iona Abbey musician.
We were joined by over 50 people from around Yorkshire and beyond. “The Big Sing was good fun and the singing was mesmerising at times.” reported one singer.
Below are some photos of the event:
This is the list of songs we sung (source books in brackets):
- Peruvian Gloria (Singing the Faith # 753)
- Come all you people (StF 22)
- Listen for the word (We Walk His Way – WGRG)
- Jesus lead us to the Father (StF 29)
- Malembe (StF 730)
- All people living on the earth (The splendour of the house of God – WGRG)
- We will take what you offer (There is one among us – WGRG)
- Everyday God (StF 45)
- Over my head (Love and Anger – WGRG)
- Fresh as the morning (Single available via WGRG)
- O bless the Lord (There is one among us – WGRG)
- Ye servants of God (Global Praise 3)
- Ewe thina (StF 775)
- Themba Amen (We walk His way – WGRG)
We hope to organise more Big Sings in the future, and other worship in the Iona tradition. Please get in touch through the comments box below if you’d like to be kept informed of these events.
Margaret is a freelance musician and worship resource worker in central Scotland. If you’d like her to lead a Big Sing at your church, please get in touch through the comments box below and we’ll put you in touch.
Carecent in the Press
In our local paper there is an article about Carecent (click here to read it), the project for the homeless based at Central, with details about their harvest appeal. For more information about Carecent generally, please visit Carecent’s own website.