WELCOME TO HINDE STREET METHODIST CHURCH
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) CLOSURE
The church building is now closed completely. Please see below for alternative online arrangements for services and updates.
TEMPORARY OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER
07933 791602
Please do not call the office landline number as we have been unable to redirect this.
PASTORAL SUPPORT
If you would like to speak with a minister for Pastoral Support, please call:
Rev Peter Cornick on 07366 023140, or
Deacon Belinda Letby on 07528 187006.
The church building is now closed completely. Please see below for alternative online arrangements for services and updates.
TEMPORARY OFFICE TELEPHONE NUMBER
07933 791602
Please do not call the office landline number as we have been unable to redirect this.
PASTORAL SUPPORT
If you would like to speak with a minister for Pastoral Support, please call:
Rev Peter Cornick on 07366 023140, or
Deacon Belinda Letby on 07528 187006.
WEEKLY PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
Please click here for our prayers and meditations including Lent Meditations.
NOTICE: The Tuesday 1pm Meditation Group is now running by Zoom. Please click here for details. All are welcome
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Please click here to access the video recordings of the Sunday Services since Sunday 22nd March 2020. Please scroll down to below the Zoom instructions to see the video recording.
Please click here for our prayers and meditations including Lent Meditations.
NOTICE: The Tuesday 1pm Meditation Group is now running by Zoom. Please click here for details. All are welcome
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Please click here to access the video recordings of the Sunday Services since Sunday 22nd March 2020. Please scroll down to below the Zoom instructions to see the video recording.
DAILY AND WEEKLY UPDATES
A message for the Superintendent of West London Mission 2.3.20
Several people last week, phoned friends from Hinde Street, to help them get online or phone into the Sunday worship. This gave opportunity, not just for technical assistance – we’re all much better at Zoom now! – but for conversation and connecting. Both Hinde Street and King’s Cross are reporting higher than usual attendances at online worship.
People want to pray.
Both churches have had opportunity to shop or care for others – keeping social distance. Some have been referred to us through the Council, others are people we know. One person, self-isolating and temporarily housed by the Council, was so grateful for the shopping, they expressed feeling cared for and being treated humanely. Whilst exercising, I have found myself walking into the road to create social distance. However, this might have created feelings of suspicion and alienation. We must hold on to the feelings of humanity expressed by the person receiving the shopping, for this restores our souls and we see God breaking into the fear.
As a staff team, we shared and prayed together – on Zoom which is the new normal. My colleague Rev. Kong Ching Hii led a reflection on Palm Sunday. He suggested that Jesus, entering Jerusalem, was entering a time of being out of control; he was at the mercy of others; everything for Jesus and the disciples was uncertain. It was a different situation of course, but, he observed, how strangely pertinent to our situation. Jesus was not in control, yet continued to rely on his Father.
As Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowd shouted ‘hosanna.’ Translated, it means, ‘save us.’ Save us from forgetting those who feel isolated; save us from suspicion and fear; save us from missing the grace of gratitude and the holiness of humanity restored.
Rev Peter Cornick
Several people last week, phoned friends from Hinde Street, to help them get online or phone into the Sunday worship. This gave opportunity, not just for technical assistance – we’re all much better at Zoom now! – but for conversation and connecting. Both Hinde Street and King’s Cross are reporting higher than usual attendances at online worship.
People want to pray.
Both churches have had opportunity to shop or care for others – keeping social distance. Some have been referred to us through the Council, others are people we know. One person, self-isolating and temporarily housed by the Council, was so grateful for the shopping, they expressed feeling cared for and being treated humanely. Whilst exercising, I have found myself walking into the road to create social distance. However, this might have created feelings of suspicion and alienation. We must hold on to the feelings of humanity expressed by the person receiving the shopping, for this restores our souls and we see God breaking into the fear.
As a staff team, we shared and prayed together – on Zoom which is the new normal. My colleague Rev. Kong Ching Hii led a reflection on Palm Sunday. He suggested that Jesus, entering Jerusalem, was entering a time of being out of control; he was at the mercy of others; everything for Jesus and the disciples was uncertain. It was a different situation of course, but, he observed, how strangely pertinent to our situation. Jesus was not in control, yet continued to rely on his Father.
As Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowd shouted ‘hosanna.’ Translated, it means, ‘save us.’ Save us from forgetting those who feel isolated; save us from suspicion and fear; save us from missing the grace of gratitude and the holiness of humanity restored.
Rev Peter Cornick
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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
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