We will be welcoming Revd Dr John Bell to Welshpool next weekend, 9th and 10th November. On Saturday afternoon at 2pm, he will be speaking on the theme: “Singing our Way into or out of Belief – how songs, traditional and contemporary, shape popular theology”, and on Sunday morning he will preach at the Churches Together…
Jubilate’s Supper Concert was a great success, with an appreciative audience enjoying the singers’ performances of the “Top Ten” of their repertoire, joining in a Singalong of songs from “South Pacific”, and a ‘Ploughman’s and Puds’ Supper during the interval. £435 was raised for church funds.
During the month of September, as part of the Synod’s Prayer Initiative, the church was open each day for Prayer and Reflection, and comments from the Visitors’ Book showed that this was much appreciated. We have decided to make our Prayer Space and Prayer Wall permanent features and to keep our church open each day.
On Sunday 20th October at 10-45 there will be a Prayer and Praise and Christian Against Poverty service led by Derek Painter and the CAP team. Come and join us for this special service and learn more about the work that CAP do around the Country.
The Jubilate Singers invite you to their Supper Concert which will be held in church on Saturday 28th September, starting at 7pm. The first half of the programme will consist of the top ten favourite songs from the group’s repertoire, as recently voted by members, interspersed with poetry written by our talented poets, and a…
For 15 months every Methodist District in Wales is leading a creative and imaginative prayer month. In September it is Welshpool & Bro Hafren’s turn and during the month our church will be involved in: Every Monday, there will be prayers just before 10am and again at 12 noon. Every Thursday, from 12 until 1pm…
Kitchens around Welshpool have been busy with home cooks baking for the church’s annual 100 Cakes Sale. Cakes, scones and cookies of all shapes and sizes were produced for the stall yesterday, 3rd August, raising over £100 which will be used for the cost of transporting the children’s Christmas Shoeboxes for the Samaritan’s Purse Appeal.
The church’s Jubilate Singing Group recently held a fundraising Sunday Picnic Lunch event in the garden of one of the members. It was organised by another member whose brother is waiting for a donated kidney, and raised over £200 for Kidney Research.
The church now has a DEFIBRILLATOR which is on the passage wall at the front of the church. It is in a locked cabinet with a keypad code for unlocking it. The code can be found on the noticeboard in the vestibule of the church or, as soon as it is registered, can be obtained…
Our annual Spring Fair, which was held on Saturday 30th March, raised £920. Many thanks to all for such a sterling effort.