You will have seen in the news that all places of worship have been asked to close.  So from now until further notice there will be no church services at either Keelby or Healing and all meetings and bookings are also stopping.

Look out for further news on here and by email.

(I am leaving the Calendar page populated with our regular meetings, but obviously they are not taking place)

Come and join the friendship club which meets up every First Monday of the Month at Keelby Methodist Church from 2.00 to 4.00pm. The cost will be £2.50 per session which includes refreshment.  This month we will meet on Monday 2nd March 2020 – Games and Poetry afternoon.  Come and have fun and be entertained in this light hearted session, and bring a favourite poem if you wish.

Kath Stennett funeral

There will be a service at the Crematorium at 10.30 am on Wednesday 12^th February followed a service of thanksgiving at Healing Methodist Church at 11.30.

Our next “ordinary” meeting with be on Monday 3^rd February 2020 at 2.00pm and will be a talk by John Cottingham and Joy Croot on “the Story of our Big Year of Bird Watching”.

This next Sunday we hold our annual Covenant Service, taken by our minister Rev. Neil Vickers. We celebrate all that God has done for us, and affirm that we give our lives and choices to God. The emphasis of the whole service is on God’s readiness to enfold us in generous love, not dependent on our deserving. Our response, also in love, springs with penitent joy from thankful recognition of God’s grace. The covenant is not just a one-one transaction between individuals and God, but the act of the whole faith community and our unity with all humanity.

The traditional Covenant prayer makes it very clear that this affirmation is a serious one that embraces the whole of our life, in all its parts. Most people find it quite tough to say, and really mean it. But the prayer is so central to the Christian life that other Churches have also adopted it.

In our culture we tend to prize our ability to make decisions and choose our own path in life. It can feel very hard to give that up. But this prayer is like a love poem. It is about surrendering to God in love and joy.

I am no longer my own but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will;
put me to doing, put me to suffering;
let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you ,exalted for you ,or brought low for you;
let me be full, let me be empty, let me have all things, let me have nothing:
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
you are mine and I am yours. So be it.
And the covenant now made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven.