Minister: Rev James Bamber 01480 453857
Sunday morning worship 10.30am Children are welcome
Refreshments served after the service in The Link.
Sunday 14th SeptemberHoly Communion Service
Harvest – Sunday 21st September 10.30am
At our Harvest Festival Service we will again be supporting marginalised people in the East End of London, through the Whitechapel Mission. By donating food and toiletries, for use by the Mission in their work, we are helping to serve the homeless by providing hot breakfasts every day.
At present they are short of any type of breakfast cereals, coffee, ketchup, tins of baked beans, plum tomatoes and chopped tomatoes, sugar, honey and salt. Also razors, deodorant, shower gel, shampoo, toothbrushes, shaving foam and moisturiser. If you can help by donating any of these items then that would be much appreciated.
Regular Events -check out our Facebook page
Monday 9.30am Seedlings during term time
Wednesday 9.30am Praying Together & Holy Communion
10am – 12 noon Open Door – everyone welcome for drinks, snacks and a natter
12.30 – 1.45pm Lunchtime Fellowship
Thursday 10am – 12 noon Craft Group Visitors welcome to join us for a cuppa.
Monthly events – check for details on Facebook (Huntingdon Methodist Church)
Allsorts -Messy Church – first Saturday of month
Men's Breakfast Club – on Saturday September 13th 8.30am to 10am at the Barley Mow, Hartford PE29 1XU. The cost of the full English Breakfast is £13 & a non cooked breakfast £7. Please let Brian Pawlett know on brianpawlett2@gmail.com if you would like to come.
Seniors Lunch
FTS – Fun to Socialise – for active Seniors
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.
