April/May 2025
For Room Bookings and other inquiries, please phone the church on 020 8517 6159
(Office hours 12-2.00 pm, Monday to Friday)
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Sunday Services (10 am)​​​​
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Sunday 27th April, 10.30 am, United Service at Old Dagenham (Holy Communion), led by Revd Mmasape Thathane-Tyolweni
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Sunday 4th May, 10 am, service led by Mrs Sharon Grundy
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Sunday 11th May, 10.30 am, United Service at Old Dagenham (Holy Communion), led by Revd Diane Smith
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Sunday 18th May, 10 am, Church Anniversary, led by Deacon Andy Packer
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Sunday 25th May, 10 am, Local Arrangement
Sunday School takes place on each Sunday, except for All Age Worship (this is usually on the United service Sundays).
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Forthcoming events:
Saturday 17th May, Anniversary Quiz afternoon
Beginners welcome, so please do come and join us for an afternoon of laughs (and maybe tears!!) as we celebrate the 52nd Anniversary of Beacontree Heath Methodist Church! There is no charge, however donations towards the Anniversary Fund will be welcomed. Light refreshments will be served.
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For further information, please contact the Church Office.
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A message from the Grange Hill Food Bank
The Foodbank at Grange Hill Methodist Church is now part of the Redbridge Foodbank and will be able to get its supplies from the main centre at Jubilee Church Ilford. However, we are short of some things as the Redbridge Foodbank has not been able to supply us fully with the following items: Long life milk, Washing liquid/tabs, long life orange juice, cooking oil, Razors, Shaving gel/foam, Dried noodles, Baby wipes.​ Your help is welcome!
For further information, please contact the Church Office.
Message from the Circuit Ministers
Dear friends,
The gift of Eastertide is a call to the Church to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus as we wait for the Ascension Celebration that ushers in Pentecost. A time of renewal and hope. Jonathan Dean our District Chair, reminded us “On this Easter, in 2025, there is so much in our world and in us that cries out for freedom and fullness. From countries that covet one another’s territory and terrorize one another’s people, to leaders who prize naked power over compassion and wisdom, to our own struggles with pride and status and self-advancement, we are all confronted with the majestic sight of the risen Jesus, still bearing the wounds of crucifixion, who invites us to be unbound, to be set free, to be wrenched from the graves of our own choosing and into the miraculous newness and fullness of life of all who are children of God.”
This clarion call invites us as the Circuit to keep seeking miracles and to witness renewing faith. Since my last reflection with you, I have personally experienced the overwhelming joy of the birth of my beautiful Grandson Rhys-Sampson William Hall and a very sad loss of my Father, William Brian Jones, each within the same month. The staggering and sobering extremes of joy and grief stumble into one’s life and conscience and are at times a sieve that winnows out the chaff from the wheat and I have found myself aware of what matters most.
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As we turn to the miraculous newness of full life for all as children of God, it’s our full joy and our full grief that intermingle and help us be witness of the cross and empty tomb.
Methodists join in these days in prayer and sympathy with our Catholic sisters and brothers recognising the pain that this brings, for many Methodists Pope Francis’s witness to the Christian faith holds a special resonance, and his loss is deeply.
As John Wesley reminds us this Eastertide, "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can!”
In Christ’s love,
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Revd Jacqui Jones