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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
If you would like to speak with a minister for Pastoral Support, please call:
Rev Peter Cornick on 020 7486 9924, or Deacon Belinda Letby on 07528 187006.
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
If you would like to speak with a minister for Pastoral Support, please call:
Rev Peter Cornick on 020 7486 9924, or Deacon Belinda Letby on 07528 187006.
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 including Lent 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 including Lent 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 of West London Mission 4 June 2020
Racism and injustice. Where is the Spirit of Pentecost?
‘Where have you experienced the Spirit moving in this season of time?’ Sam Walker was asked to speak to this question during the on-line worship on Pentecost Sunday. I found his testimony, following the shocking killing of George Floyd in the U.S., both powerfully disturbing and profoundly moving. It seemed to me, as he spoke, that the Spirit was evident in what he said. Sam’s words are published here to aid our reflection and I am grateful to him for his permission.
Rev Peter Cornick
‘Where have you experienced the Spirit moving in this season of time?’
This week has been a very sad one for me and for many others, both Black and White people. I have been distraught, emotional and I have cried as I watched the murder of a Black man in broad daylight. I saw many other Black people in high positions in society weep on TV reflecting on the hurt they feel. The murder brought to me in vivid focus the many accounts I have read of lynchings of Black people, Jim Crow laws, the Confederacy in the Southern United states, the Ku Klux Klan etc. I have cried and wondered how my relatives living in America would explain to their young children the things they are witnessing in their living rooms. I have cried.
When You hear Mr. Floyd crying, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, and calling for his mother, Mama, Mama! I ask myself the question, momentarily, where is God?
When the report that the Police officer kept his knee on his neck for nearly eight minutes and that he kept his knee on his neck for another 2 minutes and 58 seconds after Mr Floyd had been unresponsive and was showing no signs of life, I ask myself the question, momentarily, where is God? But then I thought again, this is nothing to do with the Spirit of God, it is about ‘man’s inhumanity to man (that) makes countless thousands mourn!’
Arnaud Arberry was jogging when he got shot by a white man and it took more than two months for an arrest and only after a video was leaked to the public. Christian Cooper, a man of good character and standing in his community and has long been a prominent bird watcher in New York City asked a white woman to put a leash on her dog in an area of a park where she was supposed to do so. She refused and instead called the Police to report that an African American man was threatening her and her dog. There are many examples where Black people, especially Black men have not had equal justice in the sight of the law and have grossly been discriminated against because of the colour of their skin.
Black people are just tired of being tired. Not only in America but also here in Britain.
I was once a regular visitor to Brixton Prison. There you can see the glaring inequities of the justice system. When she became Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May standing in front of 10 Downing Street said that she was going to reform the justice system that sends so many Black men to prison relative to other groups of people in the country. She never had the time to do anything about this, Brexit came along.
Covid 19 has exposed the inequities of systems in society that relegates BAME communities to poor housing, poor health, low paid jobs, inequities on the job market, in our schools, and in our criminal justice system. And yet, this is the community that occupies the front row in delivering the essential services necessary for society to function.
The question is: Where have I seen or experienced the Spirit moving at this time of Pentecost?
Perhaps I could say, Pentecost is revealed in the immediate condemnation of Mr Floyd’s murder from across the world and the exposure of the inequities Black people have complained about since enslavement.
I can also see God’s spirit in those who are literally fighting anti-racism at this time. I can see the spirit of Pentecost when I see and hear people clapping, singing and beating drums in praise of those in the health service fighting Covid 19.
The Spirit of Christ burns away our many fears and anxieties and sets us free to move wherever we are sent. That is the great liberation of Pentecost. Let us join together in asking the Spirit of God to liberate our hearts and our nation today.
Sam Walker
Racism and injustice. Where is the Spirit of Pentecost?
‘Where have you experienced the Spirit moving in this season of time?’ Sam Walker was asked to speak to this question during the on-line worship on Pentecost Sunday. I found his testimony, following the shocking killing of George Floyd in the U.S., both powerfully disturbing and profoundly moving. It seemed to me, as he spoke, that the Spirit was evident in what he said. Sam’s words are published here to aid our reflection and I am grateful to him for his permission.
Rev Peter Cornick
‘Where have you experienced the Spirit moving in this season of time?’
This week has been a very sad one for me and for many others, both Black and White people. I have been distraught, emotional and I have cried as I watched the murder of a Black man in broad daylight. I saw many other Black people in high positions in society weep on TV reflecting on the hurt they feel. The murder brought to me in vivid focus the many accounts I have read of lynchings of Black people, Jim Crow laws, the Confederacy in the Southern United states, the Ku Klux Klan etc. I have cried and wondered how my relatives living in America would explain to their young children the things they are witnessing in their living rooms. I have cried.
When You hear Mr. Floyd crying, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, and calling for his mother, Mama, Mama! I ask myself the question, momentarily, where is God?
When the report that the Police officer kept his knee on his neck for nearly eight minutes and that he kept his knee on his neck for another 2 minutes and 58 seconds after Mr Floyd had been unresponsive and was showing no signs of life, I ask myself the question, momentarily, where is God? But then I thought again, this is nothing to do with the Spirit of God, it is about ‘man’s inhumanity to man (that) makes countless thousands mourn!’
Arnaud Arberry was jogging when he got shot by a white man and it took more than two months for an arrest and only after a video was leaked to the public. Christian Cooper, a man of good character and standing in his community and has long been a prominent bird watcher in New York City asked a white woman to put a leash on her dog in an area of a park where she was supposed to do so. She refused and instead called the Police to report that an African American man was threatening her and her dog. There are many examples where Black people, especially Black men have not had equal justice in the sight of the law and have grossly been discriminated against because of the colour of their skin.
Black people are just tired of being tired. Not only in America but also here in Britain.
I was once a regular visitor to Brixton Prison. There you can see the glaring inequities of the justice system. When she became Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May standing in front of 10 Downing Street said that she was going to reform the justice system that sends so many Black men to prison relative to other groups of people in the country. She never had the time to do anything about this, Brexit came along.
Covid 19 has exposed the inequities of systems in society that relegates BAME communities to poor housing, poor health, low paid jobs, inequities on the job market, in our schools, and in our criminal justice system. And yet, this is the community that occupies the front row in delivering the essential services necessary for society to function.
The question is: Where have I seen or experienced the Spirit moving at this time of Pentecost?
Perhaps I could say, Pentecost is revealed in the immediate condemnation of Mr Floyd’s murder from across the world and the exposure of the inequities Black people have complained about since enslavement.
I can also see God’s spirit in those who are literally fighting anti-racism at this time. I can see the spirit of Pentecost when I see and hear people clapping, singing and beating drums in praise of those in the health service fighting Covid 19.
The Spirit of Christ burns away our many fears and anxieties and sets us free to move wherever we are sent. That is the great liberation of Pentecost. Let us join together in asking the Spirit of God to liberate our hearts and our nation today.
Sam Walker
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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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