We’re so delighted with our growing partnership with the congregations of St Michael-le-Belfrey that we think it’s time to celebrate it in worship (and lunch!) together. This is happening next week on Sunday 17 November.

We start off the celebrations with a lunch at 12.30pm in our halls. Please bring your own savoury food, we will be providing drinks and cake.

Then at around 2.30pm we will meet together in the chapel for a great service celebrating all that God is doing across our multiple congregations. There will be groups for our young people meeting at the same time.

Neither Central nor St Michael-le-Belfrey will be holding any other services on that day so please make a special effort to join us for this one!

Here is the Belfrey’s video about the event:

On Saturday 11 May 2013, 2.30-5pm at Central Methodist Church, we held an Iona-style Big Sing with Margaret McLarty, church and community musician and former Iona Abbey musician.

We learnt songs from around the world and the Iona tradition. Much of it sung in harmony and unaccompanied – we made a glorious sound with just our voices. There was a special focus on songs appropriate for Christian Aid Week (which started on 12 May). We used some of the songs  in our Sunday morning service for Christian Aid week the following day.

Here’s the songs we sung:

You can find out more about what happened at our previous Big Sing at www.centralmethodistyork.org.uk/bigsing2012/

Walk with us towards Easter:

Service of Holy Communion with imposition of ashes

Led by Revd Nick Bird.  Wed 13th February 12.45pm

Lent Talks: People of the Passion

Wed 27th February – Revd Dr Peter Doble (York Methodist circuit)
Wed 6th March – Revd Neville Simpson (York Methodist circuit)
Wed 13th March – Mr David Redrobe (Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire)
Wed 20th March – Revd Christopher Humble (Central Methodist Church)

Talks begin at 12.45pm
Light lunches served from 11.45am

Everyone welcome
For further information
tel: 01904 426483

Lent flier 2013

Rev Peter Doble challenged the congregation at Central with his ‘mission statement’ during this morning’s service. I though I’d share it here as I think it sums up our faith pretty well:

When they ask ‘Who are you?’

Say –

We are a People gathered around, attentive to, and shaped by Jesus’ story,

– committed to following him in his way of selfless love,

– knowing that ‘following’ entails ‘taking up a cross’;

– being nourished by his means of grace: especially by praying his prayer and gathering at his table;

– drawing from the wells of our tradition while

– contributing to that tradition through our own responses to what God has done and continues to do through Jesus;

– seeking to embody his mission in our living, both corporate and personal.

We are vigorously seeking to become a fellowship who own disciplined values are those of God’s Kingdom.

– revealed through Jesus’ life, death and vindication;

– now expressed through local Christian social, economic, and political commitment;

– probably the only basis for a global, prophetic message of God’s peace [shalom; salaam],

– particularly in Mammon’s current crisis!

In God’s kingdom,

– orthopraxy (living right) outweighs orthodoxy (creeds);

– ‘walking’ is better than ‘talking’;

– choosing God entails refusing Mammon (idolatry!).

 

Rev Peter Doble (used by permission)