Programme for 2024/25
Theme for 2024/25
Praise and Protest
Our 2024/25 theme will be Praise & Protest, and you you can find more information with dates for the year ahead in this leaflet.
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Advent and Christmas Events
Our theme for Advent and Christmas this year is ‘Out of the Ordinary’, exploring how, every day, ordinary acts of kindness can breakthrough to the extraordinary. You can read more about the theme at the central Methodist website.
Here is a summary of our Advent and Christmas events this Christmastime; you can find full event details in our worship and events calendar.
Advent
Bible Study
Advent Bible Study
7:30pm on Thursday evenings on 30-Nov, 7-Dec & 14-Dec
Join in-person at church or online via Zoom (meeting ID: 995 195 4464, passcode: 123456). See the calendar entry for more details.
1st Sunday
in Advent
Morning Worship, 1st Sunday in Advent
10:30am on Sunday 3rd December
Join in-person at church or follow the live-stream on YouTube
Circuit
Advent
Service
Circuit Advent Service at MHMC
6:30pm on Sunday 3rd December
An opportunity to celebrate the start of Advent with friends from churches across the New River Circuit.
Join in-person at church or follow the live-stream on YouTube
All-Age
Nativity
All-Age Nativity Service, 2nd Sunday in Advent
10:30am on Sunday 10th December
Come and be part of the Nativity Story this Sunday!
Join in-person at church or follow the live-stream on YouTube
BabyTalk
and Toddlers
BabyTalk and Toddlers Christmas Celebration for 0 – 4’s
09:30-12:00 on Wednesday 13th December
Story, songs, action, craft and play-space.
An opportunity for under-4s to have fun at this end-of-term Christmas celebration!
Christmas
Special
Lunch Club
Christmas Special Lunch Club
1:00pm on Thursday 14th December
Come and share in friendly conversation and company whilst enjoying a home-cooked two-course meal (with vegetarian option) with tea/ coffee for £4.
Carols at
the Brewery
Carols at the Brewery
7:00pm on Friday 15th December
at the HillyBilly Brewery Taproom, Avenue Mews, N10 3NP
Come along and sing your favourite carols by streetlight, accompanied by a brass band!
3rd Sunday
in Advent
Morning Worship, 3rd Sunday in Advent
10:30am on Sunday 17th December
Join in-person at church or follow the live-stream on YouTube
Jazz &
Carols
Jazz and Carols
3:00pm on Sunday 17th December
All-ages are welcome at this informal opportunity to sing your favourite carols accompanied by the wonderful sound of the English National Jazz Orchestra!
Candlelit
Carol Service
Candlelit Carol Service
6:30pm on Sunday 17th December
Do join us for the return of the Candlelit Carol Service at MHMC!
Blue
Christmas
Blue Christmas
7:30pm on Thursday 21st December
This is a service for those who find Christmas difficult, due to bereavement, other losses or loneliness. Church will be open to light a candle.
4th Sunday
in Advent
Morning Worship, 4th Sunday in Advent
10:30am on Christmas Eve, Sunday 24th December
A reflective service to help us prepare for Christmas Day.
Join in-person at church or follow the live-stream on YouTube
All-Age
Christingle
Service
All-Age Christingle Service
3:00pm on Christmas Eve, Sunday 24th December
A lovely way to celebrate Christmas for all the family, with songs, and light in the darkness from the candles in the Christingle oranges.
Midnight
Communion
Service
Midnight Communion Service
11:15pm on Christmas Eve, Sunday 24th December
A candlelit communion service to end Christmas Eve and begin Christmas Day.
Christmas Day
Family Celebration
Christmas Day Family Celebration
11:00am on Christmas Day, Monday 25th December
A slightly later than usual start to our Christmas Day celebration, to allow Revd Matt to celebrate Christmas at another church community first. Please bring a wrapped gift that you are happy to open during the service!
Our Mission and Welcome statements
Our Church Council has recently agreed revised Mission and Welcome statements, which are summarised in the posters here.
Programme for 2023/24
Rev Matt writes: “I am excited about our 2023/24 programme. Our Leadership Team have chosen the theme ‘Hidden Treasures’ for this coming year. This is the theme for the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference. ‘Hidden Treasures’ is based on Isaiah 45:3, with further inspiration from Romans 8:22-29 and Psalm 139. Our theme reminds us that God is at work in the darkness, and in the most difficult of times. We believe that God’s hidden treasures are present, often in the most unexpected places and unexpected people. This is an opportunity for us to discover our hidden treasures within our church community and the local community.
We will be following ‘a rhythm of mission’ throughout the year. There are key calendar moments where we can naturally reach out into our community. These include Harvest, Remembrance Sunday, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. So I encourage you to be excited on what’s happening, write the dates in your diary, and invite your friends. Our vision going forward is ’to be an inclusive, justice-seeking and growing church’. You are God’s treasure.”
