Methodist Heritage

26/01/2026

Get in touch with your CV and covering letter if you are interested in this exciting role - [email protected]
Full details - https://epwortholdrectory.org.uk/support/volunteering/

17/01/2026

Good morning from the heart of London! Today, Methodist Central Hall Westminster opens its doors to the world, just as it did eight decades ago.

Eighty years ago this week, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time right here in our Great Hall. A Methodist congregation vacated their seats in a practical act of hospitality to make history possible. They chose resolve over spectacle, birthing a commitment to save future generations from the scourge of war.

Today, we are honored to welcome HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh, the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, and diplomatic leaders from across the globe. Alongside our church family and the public, we gather not for nostalgia, but with a shared intent to heal our fractured world.

As a global Christian family following Jesus, we continue to live out the call: “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

18/12/2025

317 year ago today in 1707, Charles Wesley, one of the world's greatest hymn writers was born! The brother to John Wesley, Charles wrote many of today's most famous hymns, with over 450 of them still used around the globe today, including the classic 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing'!

The Methodist Church Methodist Heritage

12/03/2025

The Methodist Archivists’ Handbook was launched at Manchester Central Library today on 12 March 2025. This event celebrated the vital role of volunteers and staff in preserving the Church’s records. Attendees received the handbook, along with presentations, lunch and cake.

A big thank you to guest speakers, archivists & administrators who travelled from far and wide for this special celebration. For more information about the role of archivists and the Methodist Archivists’ Handbook visit: https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/office-holders/archivists/

The Methodist Church

12/02/2025

Methodist Archivists’ Handbook launch event – Manchester Central Library, 12 March 2025 (11am-3pm)

Calling all archivists, administrators and those caring for the records of the The Methodist Church.

Join us for a special event bringing together archivists and administrators from across the Connexion to mark the launch of the Methodist Archivists’ Handbook.

You are warmly invited to Manchester Central Library on 12 March 11am – 3pm to celebrate the contribution volunteers and staff of the Methodist Church working to care for the records of the Church for the future. There will be copies of the printed handbook, presentations, lunch and cake included.

Please RSVP by 26 February to [email protected] and an itinerary will follow.

22/11/2024

22/10/2024

FREE Churches Visitor & Tourism Association Conference & AGM - Saturday 26 October 2024, Cambridge

Join us for a FREE day of networking, learning, and collaboration at the beautiful Castle Street Methodist Church, in Cambridge.

Connect with fellow church members, tourism professionals, and others to share insights and best practice. Don't miss this opportunity to be a part of shaping the future of church visits and using your building for mission.

Everyone from any church or chapel, or an organisation working with them is very welcome.

NEW Church Tourism Resource Guide
At the conference we will be launching a new, practical, church tourism resource guide. Hear about its development, how it can help you and ways to input into future revisions.

PLUS a walking tour of Cambridge churches
An additional, optional event for conference attendees on Friday 25 October, from 2pm (a leisurely 2.6 miles in approximately 15-minute sections). Join to visit just a few of Cambridge's array of fascinating churches.

It's not too late to book via the link below:

Join us to connect, learn and make the most of visitors to your church or chapel.

15/10/2024

As part of the work underway to explore and recommend to the Methodist Conference the full breadth of reparations required for the injustices suffered by enslaved African people, Methodists are encouraged to watch and reflect on the film, After the Flood: The Church, Slavery and Reconciliation, which tracks the influence of the Church in providing moral justification for the trade of enslaved Africans in the eighteenth century.

Click the link to watch the trailer and to apply to download the film for your Methodist church or group.

The Methodist Church

God loves you unconditionally, no strings attached. That's the good news.

14/10/2024

We support a wide variety of projects at churches, chapels and meeting houses through our grant programmes. Our grants are available to any Christian place of worship in the UK that is open for regular worship.

02/10/2024

This week is National Vegetarian Week, when the Vegetarian Society invites us to consider a vegetarian diet.

In the present day, people adopt a vegetarian diet for a variety of reasons, whether to improve animal welfare or to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But for John Wesley, abstaining from meat and wine was a matter of personal health.

In 1747, he wrote to the Bishop of London that, although abstention was not required by the Christian faith, a certain Dr Cheyne had told him of its health benefits. Wesley’s vegetarianism apparently offended some who thought that he was trying to make a show of his sanctity by avoiding meat and wine, but he was merely pleased to see that ‘I have been freed […] from all bodily Disorders.’

Picture credit: John Wesley. Engraving by J. Thomson after J. Jackson. Wellcome Images. Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0.