January 2025
For Room Bookings and other inquiries, please phone the church on 020 8517 6159
(Office hours 12-2.00 pm, Monday to Friday)
​
Sunday Services (10 am)​​​
-
Sunday 5th January, 10.00 am, service led by Mr Mathew Walton-Thorne
-
Sunday 12th January, 10.00 am, service led by Deacon Andy Packer
-
Sunday 19th January, 10.30 am, United Service at Old Dagenham (Covenant/Communion), led by Revd Mmasape Thathane-Tyolweni
-
Sunday 26th January, 10.30 am, service led by Ms Foluso Famoyin
Sunday School takes place on each Sunday, except for All Age Worship (this is usually on the United service Sundays).
​​
Forthcoming events:
Saturday 25th January, 3.00 pm
'Friendly' Quiz afternoon
Beginners welcome, so please do come and join us for an afternoon of laughs (and maybe tears!!)! There is no charge, however donations towards church funds will be welcomed. Light refreshments will be served.
​​
For further information, please contact the Church Office.
​
​
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,
It is a joy to write to you on my return from training at Cliff College after attending an advanced safeguarding induction. The church's witness to ensure that we are safe places for all to worship, is evidence of sacrificial love as the cornerstone of our Methodist way of Life.
On the journey back, we passed many beautiful fields, ready for harvest. The display of God's bounty was everywhere, reminding me of the gift and responsibility of the time of harvest and the Season of Creationtide from 1 September to 4 October each year. This year's theme is Hope and Act, an invitation to pause for wisdom and prepare to act in our care of all Creation.
My journey to Cliff College took me via Coventry. We entered the old Cathedral bombed during the Second World war. Through wounds of the pain of our humanity we see new life displayed in many ways in the New Cathedral and the courage to express hope in the echoes of ruin.
Every new season is an opportunity that blesses and releases the past season and welcomes what is to come with great anticipation.
​
It is a delight for me to be in the Circuit, and I thank you for your generous and kind welcome and wait in anticipation to discover together what God is doing amongst us in our places of worship and mission.
I look forward to our Circuit Vision planning as we reimagine how we continue to find expression as the Methodist Church to be embodied places of healing and growing and be an inclusive evangelistic justice-seeking church.
In Christ’s hope,
Revd Jacqui Jones