Guiseley Methodist Church Notices: 27th February
2021
Dear friends
How’s the season of Lent going for
you? We’ve had a whole year of having to give up things we value
(including seeing family and friends) so it’s good that people are
sharing creative responses to reading Mark’s Gospel. Already
there’s been prayers, cross-stitch bookmarks, poems and here’s a collage
by Beryl Weatherley of Bramhope. It’s her response to the story of
Jesus restoring Bartimaeus’ sight (Mark 10: 46-52) – this blind man is
the one who ‘sees’ who Jesus truly is.
Lent is a journey to the Cross but
we also look forward to celebrating the good news of Easter. Decisions
have been taken this week which mean we can celebrate Easter in
church as well as online. Our weekly Zoom services will continue up
to Sunday 21st March and then we’ll have services in church on Palm
Sunday (28th March at 10.30am) and with Easter Communion (4th April at
9am). There’ll also be Zoom services on Maundy Thursday (1st April at
7pm) and Easter Day (4th April at 10.30am).
The services in church will be as
before: social distancing, face coverings, no singing, max 45 mins and
booking your place. Some people will be keen to come back, others not
ready to do so. You can join in worship in church, online or both – the
new term for this is ‘hybrid church’! After Easter we’ll
continue with Sunday services in church and midweek on Zoom.
If you have any thoughts on what
our future pattern should be, do let me know.
Roger.
CHURCH NEWS
Our preacher this Sunday
at 10.30am will be Rev Vicky Atkins who is now chaplain at
Woodhouse Grove School. Her theme: ‘Bear one another’s burdens, and in
this way you will fulfil the law of Christ’ (Galatians 6:3). You can
join the Zoom service online or by phone from 10.15am. For those with
online access, click on this link
https://zoom.us/j/98639722958
or join by phone (landline or mobile) by dialling 0131 460 1196 and
entering the meeting ID 986 3972 2958 followed by # twice. N.B. This
link is the same every week.
If you know any children and
parents who might like to try our junior church activities on
Sundays at 10am please encourage them to contact Sam Price at
activitiesgmc@gmail.com for the separate Zoom link.
A recording of last week’s
service on the theme of stories – including Margaret Lebeau from
Bramhope sharing something of her story before her imminent move to
Scotland - is available here:
https://youtu.be/69RIXDpwTYw
Lent group on Thursdays 10-11am
– next week looking at Mark ch.12 using Zoom link
https://zoom.us/j/98639722958
Join the meeting as and when you can (or read the chapter on your own)
and make your creative response.
The Zoom Whodunnit last
Friday was a great success (I don’t think I’ll see the cast members in
quite the same way ever again!) An amazing £693.69 has been raised for
Macmillan Cancer Support. A big thank you to everyone involved.
World Day of Prayer:
the Aireborough Committee has decided to postpone this year's service
until later in the year when we hope it will be safe to meet together.
The date is not yet arranged. (N.B. Bramhope churches have recorded a
World Day of Prayer service which can be viewed on Friday 5th March at
2pm via Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/97356409127. This service is dedicated in memory
of Judith Neville.)
COMMUNITY NEWS
From Jenny Kirkby: As you may know we have been
restoring the Guiseley Wells area for a while now and have formed
the Friends of Springfield Park & Guiseley Wells. As the Friends we
applied for a Leeds Civic Trust bench to commemorate the 2020 pandemic
and the way the way the people of Leeds came together. This is one of
only 15 benches across the City and I believe LCT will be setting up a
City trail eventually. This is akin to the Blue Plaque scheme, but is a
bench instead. The bench will go on the Guiseley Wells site as the one
we’ve had planned for a while. One of the stipulations is that there
must be a community consultation for the design of the bench. We’ve now
set this up to run from 15th February to 5th March
2020. As we are rather hampered in what we can do re consultations, we
have set up a small qualitative survey to get input on how the Guiseley
landscape helped people when they were able to get outdoors. I’ve set
up a post here https://aireboroughnf.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/help-design-an-historic-bench-for-guiseley-wells/ with
all the background and links. You can then link to the survey by
various means.
Please contact the Pastoral Secretary (details below)
if you wish to be added to the mailing list of worship material and
videos.
You can access all the
videos by searching on YouTube for ‘Guiseley Methodist Church’.
GUISELEY METHODIST CHURCH MAILING
Rev Roger Smith (Minister)
roger.smith@methodist.org.uk
01943 874735
Mrs Rosemary Williams (Pastoral Secretary)
rawilliams1942@outlook.com
01943 871048
If you’d like to
keep using online worship material, go to the
Circuit website
or search YouTube
for ‘Guiseley Methodist Church’ and
you’ll find all the videos recorded over the past months. You might
like to re-watch one or see one you missed. I know some people
are doing this and finding it helpful.
If you would like to take part in
some of the on-line activities, please contact
Sam at
activitiesgmc@gmail.com
for more details
There are FREE phone lines for
prayers and news from the Methodist Church:
Listen to a prayer: 0808 281 2514
Listen to the President and
Vice-President: 0808 281 2695
Listen to news: 0808 281 2478
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