30th November 2025 is the start of Advent as the Church prepares to celebrate Christmas.
It is a time to reflect and pause in the busyness of the preparations to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
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The President and Vice President for 2025-26 are Rev Richard Andrew and Matthew Forsyth.
The theme for their year is 'Our story: Our song.'
Over the next 12 months they will help the 'People called Methodist' tell their story in a different way and learn to live again and to sing a new song.
Visit The Methodist Church's website to read more about this year's theme and read their addresses to Conference. (www.methodist.org.)
The anniversary of John Wesley's transformative experience in a meeting room in Aldersgate Street, London is on May 24th. In 1738. in his journal, John recorded that, during a reading from Martin Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans, he felt that his heart was "strangely warmed." His brother, Charles Wesley-hymn writer, had had a similar experience a few days prior to John. This is regarded as a key moment in the beginnings of the 18th century Methodist revival.
