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New this week:
Cafe assistant required
Children's Support Fund
Are you passionate about seeking justice?
Exciting Amplify News
In case you
missed it:
Lay employee training
WEA training courses
Scam warning
Choirs wanted
Warm Places
Your District needs you!
Learning and Development Events
Dial-a-prayer
free phone line to hear prayers : 0808 281 2514 Methodist News :
0808 281 2478
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Cafe assistant required
16 hours
per week
An opportunity has arisen to help support the development of
Revive Community Café situated in the heart of Bloxwich at St
John’s Methodist Church and Centre. This initiative is an ethical
and inclusive community project with a view to developing areas such
as: a dementia café, schemes to help people back into work,
inclusive employment, training, and work experience
opportunities.
This position will be working with the existing Café Manager,
involving preparation and serving of food along with other duties,
with assistance from a small group of volunteers.
The successful candidate will be experienced at working within a
catering environment with good customer service skills, willing
to undertake relevant training and will be required to deputise
for the Manager as the need arises.
The café is currently open 4-days a week with the intention to
expand hours. Flexibility in working hours is required.
Salary is currently £9.90 per hour.
For more information, and an application form, please contact Jem
Hawkins on:
Email: Revivecafe@stjohnsbloxwich.co.uk
Telephone: 01922
475083
The closing date for applications is Midnight on 22nd October 2022,
with interviews being carried out within 14 days of this date.
This post is partly funded by the National Lottery Community
Fund.
St John’s Methodist Church is a Disability Aware employer
Registered Charity Number 1128201
St John’s Methodist Church, Victoria Avenue, Bloxwich WS3 3HS
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Children's Support
Fund
There
is still money available from the above and if your Church is
thinking of running any Children's activities, especially with
the Christmas approaching which is traditionally the time
for activities then, please consider applying for a maximum
of £500. The attached application
form needs to be completed.. Any further questions
please contact Tim Lorimer on tim.a.lorimer@gmail.com Many
thanks
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Are you passionate about seeking justice?
Then
come and Walk with Micah
On Thursday 3rd November, the President of Conference
will be holding a consultation event on emerging themes and
proposals from the Walking
with Micah project, which aims to help Methodism in
its aim to be a justice-seeking church, before the project
reports to the Conference in 2023.
The consultation will take place in central Birmingham from 10am
till 3.45pm. The event is free and the District will cover
travel costs. Rev’ds Teddy Siwila and Jimione Kaci are
already booked in. We are now seeking people who can bring
a lay perspective. There will be a couple of hours
preparation and reflection to do in advance of the event.
Please apply directly for a place but let the District know
you’ve done so (admin@wsmethodist.org.uk)
More details and the booking form can be found here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/walking-with-micah-next-steps-for-justice-tickets-411964636317 or
please contact Rachel Lampard if you have
any questions.
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Exciting Amplify News!
Firstly,
an update on how we will be doing our ticket sales this
year.
Tickets will be going on sale hopefully within the next week and
will follow a model of a deposit and final payment nearer the
time of the event. This is to ensure that we have our committed
numbers at the time we need to let the Pioneer Centre know, but reduce
pressure on families during the current financial climate. This
will all be through the online system Ticket Tailor (very similar
to Eventbrite). Everything you need to know about this will be
sent out to you when tickets are available.
Secondly, planning is beginning to take place for the event. This
year, we really want young people to have the opportunity to
shape the event. If you have any young people that would like to
do this in the form of monthly consultations, please let me know
and we will arrange to be in touch with their parents/carers to
make this happen. I hope we can make some if not all of these
in-person events to form a sense of ownership for the young
people involved. We also need leaders involved in this, so please
let me know if you feel able to be involved.
The activities are a huge part of Amplify. We will be asking
participants to rank activities again this year to make sure
everyone has something they will enjoy, but it is good to know
what we should be including in that list. Over the next few
weeks, please can you discuss the activities on offer with your
group and note down any feedback in this form:
https://forms.gle/qmfuATkurCoZmcrNA
Finally, from the feedback of last year's event, it was clear
that leaders' briefings were helpful, and that a couple of these
during the run up to Amplify this year would be good. Please pop
the following in your diary:
- Monday 21st November
7.30pm - this will be a briefing about the booking system
and any questions etc about what is needed from you.
- Monday 6th March 7.30pm
- this will be a briefing about the event, room allocations,
timetable etc, much like the briefing that took place around
that time last year.
There
will obviously be emails and information between these dates, but
it's good to get something in the diary in advance.
Looking forward to working with you all.
Any questions, please get in touch.
Charlotte 🙂
Charlotte
Hambly | District Youth Coordinator
07742737437
www.birminghammethodist.org.uk |
Registered Charity no. 1134167
36 Amesbury Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8LE
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Lay Orientation Training in the Methodist
Church
A day
for new Lay Employees to meet, explore their role, understand
Methodism and get to grips with key employment practices and much
more!
The next Lay Orientation Training will be taking place on-line on
6th
December 2022 from 10:00 am – 14:30pm.
To register for the event please click the link below:
Lay Orientation Training Registration, Tue 6
Dec 2022 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
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Free Training Courses
My name
is Matt McCarthy and I am an Education Coordinator for the
charity, Workers Educational Association.
We are a national charity which provides adult education and were
established in 1903.
Our funding entitles adult learners to free courses if they
receive means-tested benefits.
Consequently, we are offering two new courses we hope to begin in
November.
First
Steps into Numeracy 2nd - 16th Nov Wed 10:00– 12:00 - 3 sessions
Supporting
Your Child with Maths and Numeracy 2nd -16th Nov Wed 12:30–
14:30 - 3 sessions
Please view our website for more details.; WEA
National homepage | WEA
Moreover, if you would like more information and even suggest
ideas for future courses, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
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The WEA
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West Midlands Region
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Scam warning
A church
member was contacted this morning by email SUPPOSEDLY from their
minister, claiming they needed urgent, discreet purchase of
vouchers. They continued to pretend to be the minister whilst
guiding the person to purchase £500 of gift vouchers. This is a SCAM - they
then ask for the details (pictures) of the vouchers to be emailed
to them and steal the money. Thankfully this was avoided
because the person contacted their minister to query such large
sums...
Can I urge you all to pass this message on and to be clear with
all church members that someone is playing on the trust
relationship of church members to their ministers in a very
cynical way. No minister would / should ever ask for such
sums from an individual no matter how desperate or urgent the
message may appear to be.
Revd Alan Combes
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Choirs wanted
This
Christmas, we want to bring together a mass choir to create
awareness of Action for Children’s work and our Secret Santa
campaign. The choir will consist of our Welsh young carers choir,
local choirs (adult and children), choirs of supporters, children,
and young people that the charity has helped, etc and
celebrities.
We'll be creating a video of all the choirs singing the same
carol. And we'd love it if all the choirs can dress up as Santa
(could be just the hat) and record themselves singing the same
carol.
To register your interest, contact Lauren.Young2@actionforchildren.org.uk
by 14 October. Thanks.
Blessings and peace,
Karis
Kolawole
Faith Partnerships Lead
07834 334 634 | karis.kolawole@actionforchildren.org.uk
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Warm Spaces
All
churches will be aware of the cost-of-living and energy crisis
facing households this winter and will want to respond. For
the majority of churches that response may take the form of
prayer, listening and conversation. However some will want to
explore offering their building as a “warm space”, perhaps in
partnership with other local community groups.
The Connexional Team have drawn together lots of information
here: https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-work/our-work-in-britain/evangelism-growth/respond-to-the-energy-crisis-this-winter/
The District Resourcing Mission Committee, meeting on 18th
October, will be looking at how “warm spaces” may be financially
supported using money from the District Advance Fund.
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Your District needs you!
We are
still searching for a Secretary to Synod to take over from Andrew
Beattie, who has valiantly agreed to continue until someone comes
forward. If you are unsure about what the role entails or would
like to find out more (or even volunteer!) please message Andrew
Beattie on synsec28@gmail.com.
This is a voluntary position but assistance would be offered by
the District Administrator. We would be delighted to hear from
you!
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