WELCOME TO HINDE STREET METHODIST CHURCH
Help and Support
Click here for signposts to help and support during 'lockdown', regarding coronavirus, mental health & wellbeing, food, bereavement, domestic abuse, etc
Click here for signposts to help and support during 'lockdown', regarding coronavirus, mental health & wellbeing, food, bereavement, domestic abuse, etc
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) CLOSURE
The church building is now closed completely. Please see below for alternative online arrangements for services, meditation and daily/weekly updates.
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Please click here to access the live services and video recordings of services since Sunday 22nd March 2020. Please scroll down to below the Zoom instructions to see the recordings.
TEMPORARY OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER
9am -1pm and 2pm - 5pm Monday to Friday
07933 791602
Please do not call the office landline number as we have been unable to redirect this.
PASTORAL SUPPORT
Rev Peter Cornick is available for Pastoral Support on 07366 023140.
OFFERTORY
As we are having virtual services in the current situation and not passing around collection bags, any donations can be made online via Virgin Money or by BACS transfer:
Virgin Money Giving | Hinde Street Methodist Church
or
HSBC, Sort code 40-04-25, Account no. 51007416
(please use reference "Offertory" and include your name if you want the church to claim Gift Aid.)
Thank you very much for your ongoing donations and support in so many ways for Hinde Street Methodist Church.
The church building is now closed completely. Please see below for alternative online arrangements for services, meditation and daily/weekly updates.
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Please click here to access the live services and video recordings of services since Sunday 22nd March 2020. Please scroll down to below the Zoom instructions to see the recordings.
TEMPORARY OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER
9am -1pm and 2pm - 5pm Monday to Friday
07933 791602
Please do not call the office landline number as we have been unable to redirect this.
PASTORAL SUPPORT
Rev Peter Cornick is available for Pastoral Support on 07366 023140.
OFFERTORY
As we are having virtual services in the current situation and not passing around collection bags, any donations can be made online via Virgin Money or by BACS transfer:
Virgin Money Giving | Hinde Street Methodist Church
or
HSBC, Sort code 40-04-25, Account no. 51007416
(please use reference "Offertory" and include your name if you want the church to claim Gift Aid.)
Thank you very much for your ongoing donations and support in so many ways for Hinde Street Methodist Church.
WEEKLY PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
Please click here for our prayers and meditations.
NOTICE: The Tuesday 1pm Meditation Group is now running by Zoom. Please click here for details. All are welcome.
Please click here for our prayers and meditations.
NOTICE: The Tuesday 1pm Meditation Group is now running by Zoom. Please click here for details. All are welcome.
DAILY AND WEEKLY UPDATES
A message from the Superintendent Minister - 25 June 2020
Dear friends,
The government have announced that churches may resume worship from 4th July – without singing!
This is a much swifter and fuller resumption than ‘the grapevine’ was anticipating. However, there remain significant ambiguities to understand. For example, it is not at all clear what numbers can meet. The Methodist Church has assured us that further guidance will be issued regarding this third stage of the easing of lockdown. I am not expecting this until after the Methodist Conference, which is meeting this week.
The Methodist Church stress that risk assessments need to be carried out and it is for the managing trustees (the Church Council) to assess when it is safe and suitable for a church to resume worship. They further stress that managing trustees should not feel pressurised into re-opening. There are many factors to be taken into consideration. The stewards have been preparing risk assessments, but it takes time for all concerned to reflect on these and to put the necessary precautions in place, as well as to ensure communication and training has happened. The government have lifted restrictions. The scientific community are vocally more cautious. We should not rush to meet for worship or groups until we have properly heard the measures being put in place and have reflected upon them.
Therefore, I, with Richard Shepley, our Senior Steward, feel the most appropriate action would be to present the risk assessments to the Church Council, meeting by Zoom on 26th July. We can then come to a mind on a suitable phased and cautious return date for worship and groups in the church building, having heard the concerns and practical implications raised by members of the church.
We will continue to worship on Zoom until we resume worship at Hinde Street. Following the resumption, we will be making an on-line facility available, building on the success of the last three months in attracting people from far and wide. We also recognise that not everyone will be able to get to Hinde Street for some time to come. Indeed, those for whom it was impossible to travel prior to the lockdown, have appreciated the on-line experience.
So, as we prepare to exit the lockdown situation, please bear with the staff and stewards. We are all working hard to put in place worship and activities which conform with the restrictions and above all, keep our members and guests safe.
May God bless you,
Peter
Dear friends,
The government have announced that churches may resume worship from 4th July – without singing!
This is a much swifter and fuller resumption than ‘the grapevine’ was anticipating. However, there remain significant ambiguities to understand. For example, it is not at all clear what numbers can meet. The Methodist Church has assured us that further guidance will be issued regarding this third stage of the easing of lockdown. I am not expecting this until after the Methodist Conference, which is meeting this week.
The Methodist Church stress that risk assessments need to be carried out and it is for the managing trustees (the Church Council) to assess when it is safe and suitable for a church to resume worship. They further stress that managing trustees should not feel pressurised into re-opening. There are many factors to be taken into consideration. The stewards have been preparing risk assessments, but it takes time for all concerned to reflect on these and to put the necessary precautions in place, as well as to ensure communication and training has happened. The government have lifted restrictions. The scientific community are vocally more cautious. We should not rush to meet for worship or groups until we have properly heard the measures being put in place and have reflected upon them.
Therefore, I, with Richard Shepley, our Senior Steward, feel the most appropriate action would be to present the risk assessments to the Church Council, meeting by Zoom on 26th July. We can then come to a mind on a suitable phased and cautious return date for worship and groups in the church building, having heard the concerns and practical implications raised by members of the church.
We will continue to worship on Zoom until we resume worship at Hinde Street. Following the resumption, we will be making an on-line facility available, building on the success of the last three months in attracting people from far and wide. We also recognise that not everyone will be able to get to Hinde Street for some time to come. Indeed, those for whom it was impossible to travel prior to the lockdown, have appreciated the on-line experience.
So, as we prepare to exit the lockdown situation, please bear with the staff and stewards. We are all working hard to put in place worship and activities which conform with the restrictions and above all, keep our members and guests safe.
May God bless you,
Peter
|
Worship at hinde streetWorship takes place three times on a Sunday at Hinde Street, at 10am, 11am and 6.30pm. To find out more about the very different services, click HERE
|