Bethel Independent Methodist Church

05/04/2026

Happy Easter from everyone at Bethel. Have a wonderful day 🙏🏻

03/04/2026

This evening this begins at 7pm. You will be most welcome.

29/03/2026

You are most welcome to join us for a time of contemplation and worship on Good Friday at 7pm.

29/03/2026

01/01/2026

A Monologue at the Turning of the Year.

The clock struck midnight,
and everyone cheered.
But I stood still,
watching the seconds fall
like drops of water,
like grains of sand.

What is time?
It rushes, it lingers, it wounds, it heals.
It carries us from birth to death,
from laughter to sorrow,
from beginnings to endings.

And yet –
here, in this fragile now,
I hear a voice:
I hold every beginning and every ending.

The voice does not hurry me.
It does not shame me.
It simply calls me –
to live this day in love,
to spend this hour in justice,
to give this minute in mercy.

The future is God’s.
The past is held in grace.
The present is gift.

So I step into the year –
not with fear,
but with faith.
Not with despair,
but with courage.
Not alone,
but with the One who makes all things new.

24/12/2025

A blessed and peaceful Christmas to you from Bethel Independent Methodist Church. Join us tomorrow morning at 10.45 in a Christmas Day celebration service.

18/12/2025

Come along to our Carol Service on Sunday or on Christmas morning. You will be most welcome.

14/12/2025

Such a lovely Memorial Service this morning on this 3rd Advent Sunday.
Which lovely carol is this: "Born our darkness to dispel, God with us Emmanuel.'

29/11/2025

Why not come along to Bethel tomorrow morning 10.45 on this 1st Advent Sunday. You will be most welcome.

11/09/2025

The news today is of violence. An assassination in Utah. Russian military drones in Poland. Missile attacks against peace negotiators in Qatar. The relentless, indescribable hell of conditions in Gaza.

Today is a day to weep with those who weep. And a time to turn to each other not against each other.

*A prayer in times of violence*
(P ÓTuama)

God of all humanity,
in times of violence
we see how inhuman we can be.

We pray for those who, today, are weighed down by grief.
We pray today for those who, yesterday, were weighed down by grief.

And the day before,
and all the days before the day before.

We pray, too, for those who help us turn towards justice and peace.

Turn us all towards justice and peace
because we need it.

Amen.

14/06/2025

Wondering what the Academy is? Come along to Bethel to hear what exciting things are happening - Saturday 28th June at 1pm - no need to book, just turn up 😃