Events

WESLEY FELLOWSHIP EVENTS DURING 2008

The Spring meeting of the Wesley Fellowship was held on Saturday 19 April 2008 at Zion Church of the Nazarene, Brearley Street, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 0JJ.  Again we thank the pastor, the Revd Fred Calvert, and members of the church, for their hospitality and providing drinks.  The day began informally with arrivals from 10.30am ready for a formal and prompt start at 11.00am.  The meeting ended by 3.30pm. This was the second time that the Wesley Fellowship and the League of Prayer had held a joint meeting (the first occasion being in November 2007 at the same venue).  These joint meetings have proved to be most enjoyable and well-attended times of united fellowship - little wonder, perhaps, when it is remembered that both groups are enthusiastically committed to Wesleyan doctrine and experience!

The morning session was led by Revd Dr Herbert McGonigle, Chairman of The Wesley Fellowship.  He introduced Mr Paul S. Taylor, M.A., Executive Member of the Wesley Fellowship, who presented a Paper entitled ‘An Introduction to the Life and Work of James Montgomery’.  Paul is an enthusiastic researcher into this remarkable Christian hymnologist and poet with Moravian, Methodist, and Anglican associations.  Montgomery had connections with Scotland, Ulster, and England (particularly Yorkshire), and, amongst other activities, was a newspaper editor whose supposedly ‘seditious’ views landed him in prison more than once, but who ended his long life as a Christian hero - and literally put the whole of his adopted Sheffield into mourning at his death in 1854…Paul’s paper was very well received and the meeting was pleased to learn that his Paper was a kind of ‘taster’ for a book on the same subject on which he is working on at present and hopes to see published in the not too distant future.

Following a break for (our own packed) lunch, the afternoon session was led by Major Norman Armistead, Director of The League of Prayer.  He introduced the preacher, the Revd T. Barry Hall, Th.B., Secretary of the Church of the Nazarene British Isles South District, and Pastor of the Weston-super-Mare Church of the Nazarene, who had been invited by the League of Prayer to preach a sermon for this second joint meeting of the League of Prayer and the Wesley Fellowship.

Autumn 2008 Meeting of the Wesley Fellowship

Although details of speakers and arrangements are not yet finalised, the autumn meeting of the Wesley Fellowship this year is planned for 10.30am, with a prompt start at 11.00am, on Saturday 1 November 2008, at Zion Church of the Nazarene, Brearley Street, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 0JJ. The meeting will take the usual format (as in the Spring 2008 meeting described above) with a break for lunch and should end by 3.30pm.

PLAN TO COME – BRING FRIENDS – ALL ARE WELCOME!
Further details about these meetings – or about joining the Wesley Fellowship – can be obtained on request from the Joint Secretary / Treasurers, Mr Alistair & Mrs Valerie Barclay, 10A, Barnet Road, Sheffield, S11 7RP.  Tel. 0114 230 1439.  Email: aandvbarclay@btinternet.com.

PLAN TO COME – BRING FRIENDS – ALL ARE WELCOME!