Suddenly the Church is full of artwork! We are giving a safe home to two large paintings from our neighbours, the RWA, whilst they refurbish the building, and until 29 May 2021 the Clifton Art Club are exhibiting work by members produced during the Pandemic.
Lovely to meet up with other Junior Church members today during the holidays to make some bug hotels as part of our Eco Church projects. The children had a lot of fun and the first residents have moved in! Now the grass is being mowed in preparation for sowing some wildflowers to attract lots of insects and pollinators.
Over the past year Junior Church has continued to meet each week over Zoom, and very occasionally, when it was allowed over the summer, even in person in a garden. Alongside our stories from the Bible we have done lots of fun actives including, craft activities, scavenger hunts, pictionary and even making our own play dough. Today, for Palm Sunday, we made Rice Crispy Cakes. Had we been at church we would have handed them out to members of the congregation to remember how people freely laid their valuable clothes on the ground before Jesus and even lent the colt for him to ride into Jerusalem on. Thank you, Helen, for your continued energy and creativity in leading Junior Church during this difficult time!
An exhibition of Gloucestershire’s Inside Out artists in the sanctuary opened back in March for Lent. The exhibition was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and the art has remained in the church all this time. We are delighted that we are now able to open up the church for people to view these amazing works of art once more from 7-19 September Mon-Sat, 12.30-2.30pm. Admission Free.
The Bristol Methodist Centre is aware that many churches choose to celebrate God’s goodness at Harvest-time with a display of donations of food. These are often collected for local charities, including The Bristol Methodist Centre – which relies on such donations to feed those who are homeless throughout the year. This year is different. Due to the current Coronavirus Pandemic many churches continue to worship on-line or at home. Food collection for Harvest will be more difficult and risks exposing shoppers, volunteers and cooks to Coronavirus.
Therefore, we would like to ask our churches to donate to The Bristol Methodist Centre on-line. This will help us buy food we need and continue to share God’s blessing with those who are vulnerable in our city as we provide them with hot nutritious meals. Individuals can give through our Just Giving Campaign, follow the link below to donate
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/harvestfestival2020
Our repository of online hymns and chants on our Multimedia Victoria Methodist Bristol YouTube Channel continues to grow. These have all been recorded and produced by members (and a few friends) of our congregation. Mainly the musicians do the recordings in their own homes – with the occasional trip to church by our pianist for an organ recording. The music includes old and new hymns, as well as chants and even some new compositions.
Other churches are welcome to use these videos for their own worship, provided they have the relevant copyright permissions for the hymns in place.
Please go and have a look at our brand new Vic YouTube channel, Multimedia Victoria Methodist Bristol, at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiQ4Jr3Hw3fvT_5lwti1P_w
and subscribe! Here we will continue to post the hymns we record during the coronavirus lockdown.
On Sunday 17th May at 10.30am we will be celebrating a short all-age worship service via Zoom. Details of the meeting will be in this week’s notice sheet.