The children were very excited that Mary and Joseph were coming for a visit. They wanted to make a stable for them to sleep in. When they arrived the children put them in place, moved the animals around and sang them Christmas songs including Away in a Manger. Mary & Joseph enjoyed meeting Father Christmas and tasting cupcakes at our Christmas Fair.
On Thursday, Mary & Joseph helped Bev, David and Naomi to solve the puzzle for Day 1 of their Advent Calendar and later joined with folk at the Advent Bible Study Group before going home with Liz.
Mary and Joseph went along to Toddlers on Wednesday morning to say hello to the many children having fun in the Garden Room.
Today Mary and Joseph stayed with Beryl and watched the Wales vs England football match, although Beryl wasn’t sure what Mary and Joseph made of it all!
Today Mary and Joseph are staying with Penny and family. The family were very happy when they arrived!
Posada (meaning “home” or “lodging”) is an old Mexican tradition where young people dressed as Mary & Joseph from house to house asking for a room for the night and telling people about the imminent arrival of Jesus in the weeks leading up to Christmas. On Christmas Eve they would visit the local church to re-enact the nativity and place figures in a crib.
Modern-day Posada uses nativity figures of Mary and Joseph who travel from place to place. This gives each ‘host’ the chance to create their own celebration in their home or place in the community, worshipping and reaching out to their communities with the real message of Christmas, making room for Jesus in their lives.
You can follow Mary and Joseph’s travels this Christmastime here…
There is room in the Christmas story for you.
Come and take your place at our events this Christmas.
Join us for our Advent Sunday Worship either in-person at church or watch live on YouTube.
There are 10 sheep in 10 shops in Muswell Hill to be found as part of our Muswell Hill Sheep Trail. Can you find them all? Pick up an answer sheet from Muswell Hill Methodist Church on Pages Lane. The prize draw will take place at our Christingle Service at 3.30pm on Christmas Eve.
Join us for our series of Advent Bible Study sessions, either in-person at church or on Zoom. Please see here for more details and to register your interest.
Carols in the church car park (or inside if it’s wet!). Mince Pies and Refreshments served afterwards.
Carols at the Muswell Hillbilly Brewery Taproom
14 Mews Avenue, N10
Come dressed as your favourite nativity character! It will be fun!
Watch on YouTube @mhmcvideo
The church will be open to light a candle for personal reflection for those who find Christmas difficult due to bereavement, other losses or loneliness.
Or watch a short service on YouTube @mhmcvideo
3:30pm – Christingle Service for all ages
11:15pm – Candlelit Communion Service
Offering a safe and comfy heated space.
Food, games, WiFi, mobile charging and the kettle is always on!
What is Greenbelt? It’s a faith-based music and arts festival that takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend in the grounds of Boughton House near Kettering, and a number of folk from MHMC have attended the festival over many years, either for the whole weekend or just for a day.
We’re somewhere artistry meets activism, where the political meets the practical. We’re somewhere to come together once a year, where we’re as likely to dream up a better world as we are to dance and debate, to pray and to party.
A key feature of the weekend are the many and varied talks on a broad range of topics, which are recorded and made available as a resource after the event. Talks from the past 15 years are freely available on the Greenbelt website. The 60+ festival talks of 2022 have been purchased for the benefit of our church community and are available on a secure page via the button below. Please consider making a donation to the Greenbelt Communion Offering for access to this facility.
If you’re wondering where to start, maybe these two talks will whet your appetite (the link will take you to the talk description on the Greenbelt site):
Please use the short form below to let us know which talks you have enjoyed so we can promote them to others in future blog posts – thanks!
We celebrate with Alison and Jeremy who were married on Saturday 25th at 3pm.
If you were unable to attend the ceremony or would like to watch it again, you can see the recording on our YouTube site.
And please add your photos of the occasion to this Google Photos album to give Alison and Jeremy some great memories of this special day! Thank you!
Did you know that you can now watch each week’s Sunday Morning Worship live on YouTube? Just tune in to our homepage on YouTube at 10:30am each Sunday and join us from the comfort of your home (and in your pyjamas if you wish, as we can’t see you!).
And if you Subscribe to us on YouTube, you’ll get a helpful reminder when we start Live Streaming!
Here’s the most recent service to catch-up on if you missed it live:
