Christmas Services

Sunday 10th December 7pm – New Song Café Christmas – Fabulous music and modern Christmas worship Sunday 17th December 9:30am & 11am – Morning Worship 6pm – Candlelit Carol Service – Carols and Bible Readings for the season Wednesday 20th December 12 noon – Reflective Worship – A quiet, 30 minute service of reflection Christmas…

Warm Welcome Space

Warm Welcome Space is a nationwide initiative www.warmwelcome.uk With many people struggling to pay their heating bills, we are going to try to help by providing a warm space where people can relax and enjoy some warmth, a hot drink and companionship. Each day in the Shirley area there will be a church open to offer the same welcoming comfort. Churches Together…

MWiB: Boats for Fiji

In 2019 Methodist Women in Britain (MWiB) in Southampton District decided that they wanted to do something to alleviate some difficulties of the climate crisis. In conjunction with the Methodist Global Relationships Team – South Pacific Southampton District MWiB formed a partnership with Fiji – (2 villages Nabuna and Vanuakula) to buy a boat so…

94th Anniversary Giving Day

Dear Friends Once again the time has come round to the Church anniversary and Gift Day to be held on Sunday 9th October which I would invite you all to respond to. For me it seems like only yesterday that we had last year’s anniversary, whilst for Stephen this is a first celebration. The church finances are still holding firm although the…

CONNECT UPDATE DECEMBER 2020

MAKE AND BREW CAFE The cafe is now up and running!  It looks really good, it feels really nice and is spacious and a comfortable place to be in.  Due to Covid rules we can only meet in the cafe with people from the same household at the moment. Kirsty and her team have been really busy doing what they do best,…

Hello from Brian and Becky

If you’re wondering what we’ve been up to for the last couple of months, read on… Leaving the Southampton Circuit and St James Road Methodist Church in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic was difficult. We were so sad that there were many people who we hadn’t seen for months, and that restrictions meant that we could not have any big ‘farewells’.…