Huntingdon
Minister: Rev James Bamber 01480 453857
Sunday morning worship at 10.30am Children are welcome. Refreshments served after the service in The Link.
Each week at HMC
Monday 9.30 – 11am Seedlings – (term time only)
Wednesday 9:30am - Praying Together & Holy Communion
10-12 noon - Open Door Coffee Morning
12.30pm Lunchtime Fellowship Group (bring a packed lunch)
Thursday 10am-11.30am - Thursday Craft Group 10am-12 noon.
We enjoy using our skills (or no skills!!) and talents to create "fillers and extra items" to go into the gift filled shoeboxes that are part of us supporting Operation Christmas Child. The tangible mission work of Samaritan's Purse International Relief, showing God’s love to children in need.
OCC UK leaflets are available in The Link and empty wrapped shoeboxes will be handed out from Sunday 10th October onwards.
This year the National Collection Week for filled boxes is 9th - 16th Nov, when HMC will be a National Collection Centre for the local community.
Surplus empty shoeboxes are required NOW! Please bring them along any Thursday or Sunday morning, thanks
Thursday Craft welcomes visitors - there are home baked scones /cakes to be had and a chance for a natter.
Monthly events – check for details on Facebook (Huntingdon Methodist Church)
Men's Breakfast Club – on Second Saturday each month 8.30am to 10am Contact Brian Pawlett on brianpawlett2@gmail.com if you would like more details.
Seniors Lunch -
FTS – Fun to Socialise – for active Seniors
Further information:
Pastoral matters - please contact Reverend James Bamber on 01480 453857
email: jjamesbamber@gmail.com
If you are interested in any of our events please contact our Community Mission Worker - Neat Pellatt neatcommunityshmc@gmail.com
Hall bookings: If you are interested in hiring any of our halls or rooms please contact hmcbookings@hotmail.com
Our church building history – It All Began In Barns!
The Methodist Church in Huntingdon has a splendid history going back well over 200 hundred years though at times it has been checkered. Methodist Societies are recorded as meeting barns at North End and at Duck End in Godmanchester as early as 1768 – these early members were obviously hardy folk. Not the least of these was Sarah Reeve who walked to Bedford to persuade John Wesley to preach at Godmanchester, which he did on the 25th November 1774, the first of nine visits he made to the area. Shortly afterwards the first official 'Meeting House' was provided in Castle Hill Lane just east of the present Orchard House.
The present site was acquired in 1811 and the first new church was built and served for sixty years when it proved inadequate for the needs of the town and the congregation. Having been demolished the present building was erected in 1878, the foundation stones being laid on the 22nd May and the new chapel opened on the 18th October – a comment perhaps on the speed of building at that time.
The Link, adjoining the main sanctuary, was built during the covid pandemic and provides a practical welcome area for Sunday and midweek activities.