Thorpe Bay Methodist Church

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01/09/2024

As the Season of Creation begins today, we give thanks for the beauty of the world we live in. Bountiful Creator, thank you for the magnificent work of your hands, for the oceans, oak trees and ospreys. We praise you and celebrate your creation.


Read more: https://jpit.uk/creation2024

01/09/2024

Tomorrow evening at 7.30pm you are invited to the Welcome Service for the Rev Steve Mayo.

01/09/2024

Pray with us this prayer from the BRF Prayer diary September - January 2024.

01/09/2024

Pray with us today.

Prayer is a cry in the dark,
a child’s longing for home,
and a hollowed soul’s seeking of fulfilment.
Prayer is a two-fingered salute
to the hopeless cynicism of endless false promises
and a bunting-waving celebration of love in action.
Prayer is a sacred space,
found in the midst of the unholiest of battlegrounds
and in the desolation of loss.
Prayer is a memory
of long lost conversations with wise elders
and an exuberance of youthful anticipation.
Prayer is a shared longing,
a whispered dream
and an open conversation.
Prayer is a revolutionary act
It is hope in despair
And a grace-filled weaving of love’s intent.
May God bless us with the desire to pray, that we might better act, for the sake of all. Amen.

Find more ways to pray at http://www.methodist.org.uk/prayer.

01/09/2024

Revd Helen Cameron, President of the Methodist Conference, has written a prayer for the New Connexional Year.
You can also read her blog "The urgency of now and the need to speak and be loved" at https://www.methodist.org.uk/about/news/

01/09/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR Methodist friends and family!
Look forward to seeing you all today. Don't forget breakfast from 10, service at 11.

Don't forget, as of the 1st September our Sunday Service time is changing. We will now be worshipping at 11am and look forward to seeing you there. Tea and coffee will be available from 10.

For our early arrivals, breakfast pastries will be available this week and next (1st and 8th) as we make this transition.

31/08/2024

Pray with us today.

Lord, we want an easy life – we come to you to escape our difficulties, for a solution to our problems, to find security. But you call us to take up our cross and follow you into the world in all its complexity, difficulties, pain, uncertainties, and godforsakenness. As you did when you became human and walked steadfastly toward the Cross.

You are calling us to enter and embrace the world that we might be a source of healing, hope and transformation, even when it costs us. Many are fleeing war, poverty, and violence; Lord, what does it mean for us to join them on their journeys?

Find more ways to pray at http://www.methodist.org.uk/prayer.

31/08/2024

Our prayer today is from Green Reflections by Martin and Margot Hodson. This book contains Biblical reflections on the environment and our relationship with it.

Have a look here: https://www.brfonline.org.uk/products/green-reflections-biblical-inspiration-for-sustainable-living?_pos=1&_sid=0fba01398&_ss=r

31/08/2024

Today we give thanks for the Paralympics, happening in Paris at the moment. God who delights in us, thank you for this opportunity to celebrate athletes and come together in sport.


Read more: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024

30/08/2024

Pray with us today.

God in hiding, waiting in the dark, blowing over the formless void, speak a word of light and life, we pray, and make something out of this nothing once again.

God hidden in plain sight, divine treasure to be found in seeds and soils, yeast and dough, birds and trees, hunger and thirst, enemy and neighbour, bread and wine, open our eyes, give sight to our blindness and make us to see you once again.

God hiding in me like water, underground rising, seeping out, bursting out, pouring out, come Holy Spirit come and make me full to overflowing once again.

Find more ways to pray at http://www.methodist.org.uk/prayer.

30/08/2024

This prayer is taken from New Daylight May - August 2024 and is by Catherine Williams.

Explore New Daylight here - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/new-daylight