Claremont Methodist Church

Claremont Methodist Church A Society of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.

A Church Community gathering to worship and serve in Claremont, Cape Town, with a calling to be a relevant Christ-centred community that shares God's love with the world.

Another happy fitness class...and birthday celebration. So nice to have our Rev Obusitswe joining us for tea.
26/05/2026

Another happy fitness class...and birthday celebration. So nice to have our Rev Obusitswe joining us for tea.

If you're concerned about the effect of social media on your children or grandchildren (or on people in general! ), this...
09/04/2026

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📣To the Wynberg Circuit Members Please join us for our CIRCUIT Paschal Seder Meal on Holy Wednesday, 01 April 2026 at 18...
03/03/2026

📣To the Wynberg Circuit Members
Please join us for our CIRCUIT Paschal Seder Meal on Holy Wednesday, 01 April 2026 at 18h30 (seated).
Tickets are R50 per person — kindly secure tickets as seats are limited to 180 seats.
We look forward to sharing this special evening together. ✝️
Please send Melissa your ticket requests via a WHATSAPP message - this will assist her to keep record of the sales.
Message example: John Smith x 2 Tickets - Society name Blessings ✨

*Wednesday 25 February 2026*🌿🌿Reading John 3:1–17🎀✨Nicodemus has come by night to talk with Jesus. He is aware that Jesu...
25/02/2026

*Wednesday 25 February 2026*🌿🌿
Reading John 3:1–17🎀
✨Nicodemus has come by night to talk with Jesus. He is aware that Jesus is saying something that draws him out of the darkness toward him. He has seen Jesus’ miracles and knows that only someone come from God could do them. What Jesus is saying goes against all worldly knowledge, which Nicodemus protests—how can a man be born again? He knows only one reality and cannot hear of another. Jesus says he is the only person who has seen both realities. ✨Nicodemus cannot hear the testimony of Christ and so he goes back into the darkness until another day. 🔆One day soon he will be surprised! Be awake! Be alert! See the light! 🌻The light shines through the darkness and darkness cannot put it out. See and accept the light during this Lenten journey.

*Prayer*:
Dear God, our Heavenly Parent, we thank you for sending us your Son to bring us into the light. Lead us into that light each day. 🛐On this day we Pray for the various committees of the Wynberg Methodist Circuit. We bring before you God, the Pastoral Care teams of the Churches. We Pray for the Pastoral Care Group at Claremont Methodist, led by Margaret and the Pastoral Care Group at Church Street Methodist led by Lynnette. May you strengthen them God, so that they continue to bring light to pains and struggles of your People through Prayer.🛐
Lord, in your Mercy: Hear our Prayer. Amen.🛐

✨✨Reading Romans 4:1 – 5 & 13 – 17 🌿Singing 113 Shona, the refrain:_Ishe Jesu Ishe, ivai netsitsi – Lord Jesus, have Mer...
24/02/2026

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Reading Romans 4:1 – 5 & 13 – 17
🌿Singing 113 Shona, the refrain:
_Ishe Jesu Ishe, ivai netsitsi – Lord Jesus, have Mercy upon us
Ishe Jesu Ishe, ivai nengoni – Lord Jesus, have pity on us_

Those who believe in Jesus as their Saviour are heirs of the promise to Abraham, not of his flesh, but his faith in the promise. It was Abraham’s faith, Paul argues passionately, that saved him—not his tribal identity or following of the law, however good that was. Paul believed that all he had learned in his training in Jerusalem with Gamaliel ended in Christ. He was the one who was promised from the beginning. And it was the resurrection that proved Jesus was the Messiah. We are not Christians because our parents or grandparents were. Each of us must encounter God’s promises to us. When we do we become one with Christ and all who believe in him. We become children of God by accepting Jesus as our Lord and personal Saviour. We do this by calling unto Jesus ‘Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me!’ All we need do is just to raise our hands and call for Jesus, and immediately, Jesus accepts us into his fold.🎀🎀

*Prayer*:🛐
Dear Lord and Saviour, we thank you for the faith to believe that it was your death and resurrection that gave us the power to become one with you. Hold us we pray, in the palm of your hand. Keep us deeply rooted in Faith. We pray at this time for those who are far off from the kingdom. Please call them Lord, for as your word promises, the promise is for them as well. We pray the Bible-women and Evangelists of this Church that they would reach all the corners of Southern Africa to call your people home.🌻🌻 Particularly we Pray 🤲🏾 for Evangelist Terrence Chimowa and On Trial Evangelist Rosemary Madamombe💞💞
*Lord, in your Mercy, Hear our Prayer, Amen*.🙇🏽🙇🏽

*Saturday 21 February 2026*Reading Genesis 12: 1 – 4 🌿🌿Singing:_Ek kan hoor my Heiland roep my – I can hear my Saviour c...
21/02/2026

*Saturday 21 February 2026*
Reading Genesis 12: 1 – 4
🌿🌿Singing:
_Ek kan hoor my Heiland roep my – I can hear my Saviour calling me
Neem ek my kruis, en volg – I take up my cross and follow!
Waar Hy lei, daar sal ek meegaan – where he leads, I will follow
Gaan ek met Hom, tot die eind – I will follow Him to the very end._

💖Abram heard a voice calling to him. It said he should go to a land about which he knew nothing. There he would become the father of a great nation. So, he goes into the unknown. His obedience to the voice is astonishing. Who of us would have the courage and faith to make such a journey into the unknown? He knows that he and Sarah are past the age of childbearing and yet he believes enough to take the first step and then the second. Suddenly he is in the new land God has promised him. It is strange and difficult. Faith is always a leap into the unknown, but we can do so because we trust our God is with us. As we continue to pray joyfully, let us allow God to lead us. Let us give ourselves to God to lead us.

*Prayer*:🌻
O God, we thank you for the witness of Abraham and Sarah. Give us the faith we pray, to go forth into the future with confidence in your guiding light. We pray Lord for the Bishop and the ministers of the Cape of Goodhope District. You know all of them, you have called them by name and set them apart to be your hands and feet in your vineyard of the Cape. ✨✨Bless them O Lord, umane ukubahlisela umbethe wentsikelelo yakho, in Jesus’ name we Pray. Lord, in your Mercy, Hear our Prayer, 🙇🏽Amen.

Friday, 20 February 2026Reading Matthew 4: 1 – 11 Singing Hymn 192 Xhosa, stanza 4:Ma ungandilahli minaNoko ndenje njalo...
20/02/2026

Friday, 20 February 2026
Reading Matthew 4: 1 – 11
Singing Hymn 192 Xhosa, stanza 4:
Ma ungandilahli mina
Noko ndenje njalo kuwe
Ndothini na, ndoyaphi na
Xa ndilahliweyo nguwe?
Translation: Please, don’t abandon me Lord, even though I have sinned. What could I possibly do, where could I possibly go, if abandoned by you?

🌿In Matthew 4:1–11, Jesus faces temptations that appeal to his real human needs - hunger, power, and identity. Satan offers what looks “good,” yet each offer hides destruction. Jesus responds with wisdom rooted in God’s Word, showing us that anything which satisfies the flesh for a moment but endangers the soul is not worth pursuing. As we pray joyfully, let us remember that those seeking to deepen their spirituality must choose what they ‘eat’ – what they consume, what they let into God’s Holy Temple, our bodies. Don’t give the devil a ride! Or else, he will end up driving your car. Commit yourself to the Lord. Lent invites us to pause, weigh our desires, and choose the path that leads to life rather than harm.

*Prayer*:
🙇🏽Lord, give us wisdom to recognize false invitations, strength to resist fleeting cravings, and hearts anchored in your Word. Lift us up Lord. We ask that you particularly uplift the students at the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary. We ask that as they are trained for the Methodist Ministry, they may be freed from the deadly sins of ministry – s*x, money and power.✝️✝️
Lord, in your Mercy, Hear our Prayer, Amen.

Thursday 19 February 2026Reading Romans 5: 12 – 19Singing Hymn 267 English (Love Divine, all Loves’s Excelling)Sin enter...
19/02/2026

Thursday 19 February 2026

Reading Romans 5: 12 – 19
Singing Hymn 267 English (Love Divine, all Loves’s Excelling)

Sin entered the world like a constant that always led to loss: sin minus the law brought death, and sin plus the law still resulted in death. But in Christ, the equation changes forever. Jesus steps into the centre of our brokenness and becomes the One who overturns sin’s power, replacing death with abundant life. Through his redeeming sacrifice, we are not only forgiven— we are lifted to the place of God’s beloved children, invited to reign with a dignity we did not earn but freely received.

I know what it means to be rescued from the edge of hopelessness into the fullness of life. If you find yourself at rock bottom this Lenten season, Christ is inviting you into that same transformation. Where sin condemns and destroys, Jesus restores and gives life in overflowing abundance. In him, death is defeated, and a new kingdom reality begins even now.

Prayer:
Gracious Redeemer, please lift us from the weight of our sin into the freedom of your Grace. Where death once ruled, let your life overflow in us. Heal what is broken, restore what is lost, and lead us into the abundance only you can give. Hold close all who feel unworthy, the people of the Ukraine, the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and those undergoing pain and suffering today. Let your hope rise within them.
Lord, in your Mercy, Hear our Prayer, Amen.

Ash Wednesday 18 February 2026Reading Matthew 6: 1 – 6 & 16 – 21Singing Hymn 280 English (Breathe on me Breath of Go...
18/02/2026

Ash Wednesday 18 February 2026

Reading Matthew 6: 1 – 6 & 16 – 21
Singing Hymn 280 English (Breathe on me Breath of God)

Friends, as we begin the season of Lent, Matthew 6 reaches deep into the centre of our lives. Jesus invites us not into rules, but into a way of being, an ethic of living with God at the heart of all we do. Many of us pray both in the quiet of our rooms and in the open moments when someone’s pain or our pain calls us to intercede. For some of us, especially where faith is woven into culture, our first instinct is not to reach for a phone, but for God. We give, we pray, we fast, not for recognition, but because goodness naturally rises when we walk with God. Prayer is at the heart of our lives, and Jesus calls us to be joyful in Prayer. Lent is not about performance. It is about returning to the truth that life with God is a way of life. When our practices flow from love rather than obligation, we are freed from burdens and drawn into deeper relationship.

Prayer:
Lord, shape our hearts to seek you quietly, sincerely, and joyfully. We Pray for the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, Bishop Pumla Nzimande that she will continue to faithfully prophesy on behalf of the People called
Methodist in Southern Africa.

Lord, in your Mercy, Hear our Prayer, Amen.

SAVE THE DATE! This is always a magical evening, and all the profits go to such a good cause.
15/01/2026

SAVE THE DATE! This is always a magical evening, and all the profits go to such a good cause.

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22 Cavendish Street
Claremont
7708

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 18:00
Thursday 08:00 - 16:00
Friday 08:00 - 12:30
Sunday 09:00 - 13:00

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