MERE’S EDGE METHODIST CHURCHES
SUNDAY 31st MAY
This Week’s Services:
Ellesmere at Chapel Lane
Chapel Lane at 11:00 am led by Rev. Ian Hutchings
Next Week’s Services:
Ellesmere at 11:00 am led by Mr. M. Jackson
Chapel Lane at 11:00 am Own Arrangement
Welshampton at Wem
Lee Bridges at 6:30 pm led by Mr. M. Jackson
This Week’s Notices
Monday, 1st June Meditation Group with Deacon Carys Woodley. The link is:
https://zoom.us/j/94394803571?pwd=YkNOUU5uUi95UEoxaGFCLzAOUE1WQT09
Meeting ID: 943 9480 3571 Passcode: 039007
Sunday 7th June at 11:00 am at Wem Methodist Church (Aston St.) All welcome to a Centenary service of this 100 year old church led by Supernumerary Rev. Hilary Cooke from Bristol, who grew up locally. Following the service there will be a soup and puddings lunch for £7, please contact Paul Johnson to book (Tel: 07783 299 293). All welcome.
Advance Notices
Meditation Group Future dates are: 29th June, 27th July, 24th August, 28th September and 6th October.
Sunday 14th June at 11:00 am Joint service for the Easter Offering at Ellesmere.
Forest Church Saturday 20th June at 2:30 pm Meet at Ifton Meadows Local Nature Reserve at the car park on the east side. The theme will be ”Transformation – former colliery waste tip now nature reserve”.
See here for details and the location: https://www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk/site/ifton-meadows-local-nature-reserve/
Future Forest Church dates are: 18th July, 15th August, 19th September. Where these will be held will be communicated nearer the times.
Sunday, 28th June at 3:00 pm. Final open-air service at Stiperstones to mark the closing of the church. Please bring chairs and picnics for a Methodist camp meeting.
Sunday 19th July at 3:00 pm Rev. Julia Skitt’s final service will be held in Chirk Methodist Chapel.
Other Notices
Coffee morning Saturday, June 10:00 am – noon. At Welshampton Village Hall in support of the Miscarriage Association.
Methodist Mobile Outreach (MeMO) project. During the joint service at Ellesmere on 14th June, we will be commissioning Kirsty Barrett, the new layworker, for her work with the mobile outreach project.
Our Church Family
Please continue your prayers for Carol King and Tony Williams (who are both making progress) and others of our church family.
Please contact Ruthie for any special birthdays, anniversaries or other events affecting anyone in our Mere’s Edge Church family for inclusion in the notices. We also remember in our prayers those of our family who are ill or troubled whose problems may or may not be known to us. If you have any other information that you would like included, please email Ruthie (alukundo@gmail.com) who will happily oblige.
Facebook. You can follow us on Facebook “Ellesmere Methodist Church“, “Shropshire and Marches” and for the mobile outreach trailer “Memo Shropshire”.
Please inform others of the content of these notices if they are not able to attend church.
If you have information that you would like included in the notices, please email Ruthie (alukundo@gmail.com), who will happily oblige.
Rev Julia Skitt 16 Wilfred Owen Avenue, Oswestry SY11 2NB
Tel: 01691 657349 and 07810360778 email: juliaskitt@mail.com
Deacon Carys Woodley Tel: 01939235504 email: deaconcarys@yahoo.com