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Welcome to Guiseley Methodist Church. On this website you will discover a range of activities and reflections connected with the church and our faith.

Guiseley Methodist Church is a group of people from different backgrounds and cultures with differing ideas and perspectives. We are joined together through our love of God revealed in Jesus Christ and a desire to serve and share God’s love in the world today. We believe all are welcome.

If you wish to join us as we continue to explore God’s way and how we live out our lives in the world today you are very welcome. All are welcome to share in worship. Likewise if you wish to find out more or simply want to ask a question you are very welcome. Come along or you can use the contact page to get in touch.

Message from Revd Roger Smith - 24th May 2020

What do you do on Sunday mornings? For many of us in the past two months, our answer to that question has changed. Churches are closed (and so are sports pitches). So what do you do?

I suppose there must be some people who find something new to do every Sunday but I suspect most of us are settling into new patterns. This might include joining services on radio, TV or (for those who have it) the internet. Your new pattern could mean more time spent in quiet reflection, reading, walking and engaging with the natural world. Many thanks to Geoff North for this photo of some new residents in Nunroyd Park:

I hope you’re experiencing something good on Sundays. Don’t waste energy feeling guilty about anything you’re not doing! If you’ve found something good, let God speak to you through it.

Last Thursday was Ascension Day which can be a tricky day to properly engage with. After the resurrection there’s a time when Jesus’ visible presence on earth has to come to an end. I have to admit that I don’t find the picture of Jesus of disappearing up into the clouds at all helpful. There are even stained glass windows with Jesus’ feet right at the top!

But Ascension Day has a powerful message for us, perhaps especially this year. In Luke’s version of the story at the beginning of Acts, two men dressed in white ask the disciples, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking into the sky?’ The disciples must change their focus. They might have started to think that Jesus’ resurrection meant things going back to how they were. But no, it means something new is happening!

As the restrictions we’re living with gradually lift, everything won’t go back to how it was. There’s no need to be anxious about this. God has provided good things for us in the past, is doing so now and will continue to do so in the future, whatever shape that might take.

In all this, keep on supporting one another.

Roger.

Sunday	Gospel reading
24 May	John 17: 1-11
31 May	Acts 2: 1-21
7th June	Matthew 28: 16-20
14th June	Matthew 9: 35- 10:8
21st June	Matthew 10: 24-39
28th June	Matthew 10: 40-42

This week's worship video is from Revd Tim Perkins and is based on John 17: 1-11:

https://youtu.be/zGjxj-5YNzU

In these difficult times, if you need some help or would like a chat, please contact any one of us:

Rev Roger Smith roger.smith@methodist.org.uk 01943 874735

Deacon Jenny Parnell jenny.parnell@methodist.org.uk 0113 250 9805

Mrs Rosemary Williams (Pastoral Secretary) rawilliams1942@outlook.com 01943 871048