Weekly Newsletter
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SUPERINTENDENT MINISTER: REV. RUTH CHARLESWORTH
TEL. NO: 01933 312778 & EMAIL: SUPERINTENDENT@NVM.ORG.UK
For Hire enquiries please contact HopeMethodistbookings@gmail.com.
Senior Steward: Tony Packham T. No. 411145 – mobile number 077 87 174 112
Web address: hope-methodist.church
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Service Sunday 19th 10.30 am: Local Arrangement – AAW
(Please ensure your mobile is on silent or vibrate – thank you)
Please note that the Collection this coming Sunday will go towards the Disaster Relief Fund.
If you’ve seen the devastation to property and lives on TV, I hope that you will give generously.
Monday 20th
1.00 – 4.00 pm: Higham Piece Makers C/G*
Tuesday 21st
7.00 – 8.00 pm: Pilates C/G*
Wednesday 22nd
9.45 am: Keep Fit
Thursday 23rd 9.30 am: Zoom Pause for Prayer
(link – Meeting ID: 847 0073 1740 – Passcode: 189679)
10.30 – 11.30 am: Coffee Morning
11.30 – 12.15 pm: Fitness Group C/G*
Friday 24th
12.30 pm: Friday Lunches
7.30 – 9.30 pm: Ballroom Dance Class C/G*
Saturday 25th
10.00 – 11.30 am: Coffee Morning
Service Sunday 26th Deacon Sylvia Kempson
Later in July – Wednesday 29th – 2.00 pm: Community Cinema – showing ‘H for ‘Hawk’
O Lord of astonishing beauty and outlandish loveliness,
O Lord of the minuscule, the overlooked and the never seen,
O Lord of the extraordinary and the everyday,
open our eyes to see your presence,
our ears to hear the whisper of your voice and, realising you in every place and every moment of our existence, may we live with justice, peace, care and hope. Amen.
Helen Kirk, previous-Chester and Stoke-on-Trent District Chair
The Methodist Prayer Handbook for 2026/27 Sorrow ~ Joy will be available shortly costing £4.50. If you would like a copy, either A5 or A4 please let Nita know which by Sunday 26th July. Thank you.
Please remember in prayer our friends in Care Homes, those recovering from medical problems at home and those living alone.
Pastoral Care – if anyone is ill from our congregation, please tell our Pastoral Secretary, Janet: 356501, so that their pastoral friend may be informed. If anyone is in hospital or bereaved or needs to speak to a Minister, please contact Rev. Ruth and thanks to all who are exercising pastoral care to members and community. Hope is a sight loss friendly church.
The Thursday Group – If you know anyone from this Group who would like a card or a phone call,
please contact either Stephanie: 07 563 353 869, Chris Chettle: 317847, or Evelyn: 410586.
The Zoom codes for accessing the Sunday services are:
Meeting ID: 882 6556 3785 and the passcode is: 523927
Services live streamed from Hope – you will be greeted by a team member when you log in from 10.15 am. Just before 10.30 am, the camera view will change, and you will need to go onto mute to allow the sound to be the best quality possible.
PAUSE FOR PRAYER
Up to 10 people meet online for prayer every Thursday at 9.30 am for the Pause for Prayer meeting. We share together as we read a couple of hymns, listen to a ‘thought’ as well as pray, either silently or out loud; no one has to speak. Confidentiality is respected as we bring before God the various concerns and thanksgivings linked to a wide range of issues, from personal to global. Please join us, if you wish, for one or more visits. Zoom Link: Meeting ID: 847 0073 1740 – Passcode: 189679
If anyone has a concern, they wish to have included, please write on a bird and hang it on the prayer tree or else contact a member of the group.
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(C/G = Community Group
L A T E S T N E W S
At the Easter Sunday Service on 5th April – members of the congregation brought small bunches of flowers from home and decorated the cross
Many toys were brought to the Toy Service for eventual distribution by Mother Christmas and her many helpers to disadvantaged children in the area.
During the Service on Sunday 13th July 2025 the Girls’ Brigade celebrated the end of their year by showing slides of events they’d enjoyed during the year. They also awarded Fiona with her ’10 year Service Award’ and passed the ‘Grace Moore’ Cup to Kiara for being the overall best helper and the reason for being in the Girls’ Brigade – ‘because I enjoy everything about Girls’ Brigade’.
On Easter Sunday the cross was decorated by the congregation with flowers brought from home –
The following is a short video of our Worship and Community Room
Several members of the congregation either knitted or crocheted poppies and they have been made into banners:
On 12th May 2024 The Girls’ Brigade celebrated their 110th Anniversary Celebration Service with Rev. Nick Sissons leading worship
followed by refreshments and a celebration cake
The following Certificate has been awarded for Hope being an Eco Friendly Church
