District Events

Join us at the Gatherings 2020 to explore how Christian Aid responds to communities in crisis across the world.

We commit almost a third of our total income to our humanitarian work. Every year Christian Aid reaches millions of disaster-affected people. At the Gatherings 2020, find out how we provide urgent, practical help in times of crisis and beyond.

Country Focus: The Gatherings 2020 will focus on how communities in Kenya are supported to adapt, transform and respond to climate change.

Faith Focus: Join us for a unique session of Just Scripture, Christian Aid’s international bible study tool. We’ll connect live with an overseas partner to explore a scripture passage together. Together with staff and volunteers, discover how we can amplify our voices to speak truth to power and to create lasting change.

Keynote speaker: Nick Guttmann, Christian Aid Head of Humanitarian Division

Highlights: Just Scripture, Exploring Kenya, Climate Justice 2020

Booking information

Join us at the Gatherings 2020 to explore how Christian Aid responds to communities in crisis across the world.

We commit almost a third of our total income to our humanitarian work. Every year Christian Aid reaches millions of disaster-affected people. At the Gatherings 2020, find out how we provide urgent, practical help in times of crisis and beyond.

Country Focus: The Gatherings 2020 will focus on how communities in Kenya are supported to adapt, transform and respond to climate change.

Faith Focus: Join us for a unique session of Just Scripture, Christian Aid’s international bible study tool. We’ll connect live with an overseas partner to explore a scripture passage together. Together with staff and volunteers, discover how we can amplify our voices to speak truth to power and to create lasting change.

Keynote speaker: Nick Guttmann, Christian Aid Head of Humanitarian Division

Highlights: Just Scripture, Exploring Kenya, Climate Justice 2020

Booking information

Join us at the Gatherings 2020 to explore how Christian Aid responds to communities in crisis across the world.

We commit almost a third of our total income to our humanitarian work. Every year Christian Aid reaches millions of disaster-affected people. At the Gatherings 2020, find out how we provide urgent, practical help in times of crisis and beyond.

Country Focus: The Gatherings 2020 will focus on how communities in Kenya are supported to adapt, transform and respond to climate change.

Faith Focus: Join us for a unique session of Just Scripture, Christian Aid’s international bible study tool. We’ll connect live with an overseas partner to explore a scripture passage together. Together with staff and volunteers, discover how we can amplify our voices to speak truth to power and to create lasting change.

Keynote speaker: Nick Guttmann, Christian Aid Head of Humanitarian Division

Highlights: Just Scripture, Exploring Kenya, Climate Justice 2020

Booking information

Join us at the Gatherings 2020 to explore how Christian Aid responds to communities in crisis across the world.

We commit almost a third of our total income to our humanitarian work. Every year Christian Aid reaches millions of disaster-affected people. At the Gatherings 2020, find out how we provide urgent, practical help in times of crisis and beyond.

Country Focus: The Gatherings 2020 will focus on how communities in Kenya are supported to adapt, transform and respond to climate change.

Faith Focus: Join us for a unique session of Just Scripture, Christian Aid’s international bible study tool. We’ll connect live with an overseas partner to explore a scripture passage together. Together with staff and volunteers, discover how we can amplify our voices to speak truth to power and to create lasting change.

Keynote speaker: Nick Guttmann, Christian Aid Head of Humanitarian Division

Highlights: Just Scripture, Exploring Kenya, Climate Justice 2020

Booking information

Organised by Interfaith Scotland of which the Methodist Church is a member.

Register by Tuesday 10th March - admin@interfaithscotland.org or call 0141 558 0778.

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Hosted by Trinity College, Glasgow

The current pandemic has raised huge challenges for churches in relation to pastoral care. Key concerns have been responding to physical illness, death and grieving under lockdown conditions, but also responding to heightened levels of anxiety, fear and stress. Medical and care staff have been under great pressure and there will be enduring legacies of trauma for many of them. This Zoominar will be reflecting theologically on these issues and concerns and also on broader cultural impacts of the crisis on current and future well-being in our societies. How has the language and reality of distancing affected our ability to connect with and care for one another? What have we learned about the capacities and limits of online care? What has this time revealed about how we value seniors, essential low paid workers and BAME members of our society? How will the loss of opportunities and freedoms shape the development of our children and young people? How does pastoral care find context and expression in our political and liturgical theology and practice?

We have drawn together a panel of four theologians to offer reflections on pastoral care in a time of pandemic and the disruption we are in, followed by questions and interaction:

• Rev Dr Harriet Harris (Chaplain, University of Edinburgh)
• Rev Dr Lance Stone (Minister of the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam, former Director of Pastoral Studies at Westminster College Cambridge)
• Prof Heather Walton (Professor of Theology & Creative Practice, University of Glasgow)
• Rev Dr Joss Bryan (Pastoral and Practical Theology, University of Durham)

Register for a Zoomlink: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pastoral-care-in-a-time-of-covid-19-tickets-108665535542

Conference Fringe Event

All disciples of Jesus are called to listen for, speak of, and live out the good news from their own lived experience, theology, and perspective. While some have been given particular spiritual gifts for communicating the gospel, we are all called to witness to God’s goodness in word and deed. Responding to this calling does not require a personality transplant or the adoption of a theological stance with which we do not resonate. Being an evangelist means starting authentically from where we actually are.

List of speakers and registration

Zoom webinar hosted by Andrew Baker, Superintendent Minister of Strathclyde Circuit

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i_YwXnjpTeS0Ai2bbM36eQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the webinar. For everyone safety, you will
receive your person link after the registration. That link is different
from the one above.

Christian Education Association Scotland

A network for children’s and family ministry practitioners, advisers or church leaders engaged in ministry with and among children. An opportunity to hear from and share with others involved in these areas of ministry from different church contexts in Scotland.

Registration 

Free registration

Free registration

Christian Education Association Scotland

A network for children’s and family ministry practitioners, advisers or church leaders engaged in ministry with and among children. An opportunity to hear from and share with others involved in these areas of ministry from different church contexts in Scotland.

Registration 

Church and Ministry in a Secular Age: a monthly forum for church leaders - 3rd Thursday of each month.

July's meeting led by Rev Dr John Carswell, Minister of Cadzow Church of Scotland, Hamilton.

This is an offer of a space online for anyone involved in Christian leadership in Scotland. We will come together for an hour once a month, have some pump priming with 15 minutes input on a relevant topic and spend the rest of the time in discussions in breakout rooms.

Coming from a variety of denominational backgrounds ourselves we hope that we can all benefit from the richness of experience and relationships as we travel together in facing common opportunities and challenges. This is not just about Covid 19 but also the larger context of a Secular Age. Our prayer is that we will be resourced both personally but also in our ministries to find a way forward and about what God could be saying to each of us in our settings.

The series of topics starts by looking at our current context and then move towards looking to the future.

Book via Eventbrite

Christian Education Association Scotland

A network for children’s and family ministry practitioners, advisers or church leaders engaged in ministry with and among children. An opportunity to hear from and share with others involved in these areas of ministry from different church contexts in Scotland.

Registration 

More than 4.2 million children were locked in poverty before Covid-19 hit the UK. It was clear how a pandemic would make things worse for families who were already struggling. So, Action for Children sprang into action.

In this webinar, Action for Children staff tell how the charity rapidly acted to ensure that we could continue to support our children, young people and families in spite of the pandemic.

Disadvantaged children and families were disproportionately affected by the multitude of challenges that Covid-19 brought e.g. closed schools, loss of income, dealing with existing health conditions. Adapting our services and fundraising activities quickly gave families a lifeline in extremely difficult times.

Sign up for this webinar: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/3WYD-6R7/covid-19-webinar

Church and Ministry in a Secular Age: a monthly forum for church leaders - 3rd Thursday of each month.

"Buffered selves? What impact might lockdown and the resulting self-isolation have on people's sense of themselves as 'buffered' (to use Charles Taylor's concept) from spiritual realities?" Rev Dr David Miller, Millerston United Free Church, Glasgow

This is an offer of a space online for anyone involved in Christian leadership in Scotland. We will come together for an hour once a month, have some pump priming with 15 minutes input on a relevant topic and spend the rest of the time in discussions in breakout rooms.

Coming from a variety of denominational backgrounds ourselves we hope that we can all benefit from the richness of experience and relationships as we travel together in facing common opportunities and challenges. This is not just about Covid 19 but also the larger context of a Secular Age. Our prayer is that we will be resourced both personally but also in our ministries to find a way forward and about what God could be saying to each of us in our settings.

The series of topics starts by looking at our current context and then move towards looking to the future.

Book via Eventbrite

Church and Ministry in a Secular Age: a monthly forum for church leaders - 3rd Thursday of each month.

"Missional Spirituality." Rev Liz Crumlish. Renewal and Pioneer Coordinator, Church of Scotland.

This is an offer of a space online for anyone involved in Christian leadership in Scotland. We will come together for an hour once a month, have some pump priming with 15 minutes input on a relevant topic and spend the rest of the time in discussions in breakout rooms.

Coming from a variety of denominational backgrounds ourselves we hope that we can all benefit from the richness of experience and relationships as we travel together in facing common opportunities and challenges. This is not just about Covid 19 but also the larger context of a Secular Age. Our prayer is that we will be resourced both personally but also in our ministries to find a way forward and about what God could be saying to each of us in our settings.

The series of topics starts by looking at our current context and then move towards looking to the future.

Book via Eventbrite

Zoom Gathering - hosted by Ian Rutherford (Manchester) and Mike Long (London). 

 We will hear updates on recent lobbying and the Government`s response and on current developments in social housing. We will have an open conversation on policy proposals in relation to Methodist involvement and an interactive session on the need for partnerships in working to end homelessness and integrating accommodation, health and support within this time of "Living with Covid". 

To join the meeting email Revd Ian Rutherford on ianr7@hotmail.co.uk for a link.

We are looking forward to seeing you on 30 September and capturing everyone's contributions.

More background information

Hosted by Ian Rutherford and David Hardman (Manchester and Stockport) and Bala Gnanapragasam (London).

Joining from Rome will be Fiona Kendall, the European and Legal Affairs Advisor with Mediterranean Hope. More information.

To join the Zoom meeting on 15 October please let Ian Rutherford know on ianr7@hotmail.co.uk and he will send you the Zoom link.

Register for the free webinar.

Read more about the campaign.

The British Methodist Youth Choir are having their first virtual rehearsal on the 16th October at 7.00pm. More information and sign up.

Interfaith Scotland invites women of all backgrounds to talks and conversation on the theme of 'Connecting' to celebrate Scottish Interfaith Week 2020

Our keynote speaker is Roz Adams, a certified trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication. Roz is the Project Development Worker with Glasgow-based charity Bridging the Gap which brings people together from all faiths, backgrounds and cultures to share meaningful activity, explore difference and find common, human ground. Roz will be joined by two volunteers from Bridging the Gap, Katherine Longmuir, a Scottish Catholic, and Huda Jaber, a Sudanese Muslim, who will speak about their experiences of putting faith into action by connecting with others. We will then have time to connect with one another in conversation in small groups.

This event is open to women and those who identify as women.

To sign up to attend the event please fill in the Google form at this link:

If you have any additional support needs to assist you in attending this event please email Frances Hume at frances@interfaithscotland.org 

Nik Wooller, Andrew Baker and Laurent Vernet  invite you to travel with them through Advent 2020 along with others who live life with a Methodist flavour in Scotland. They say,
“It would be great to have people from across the districts [Scotland and Shetland] looking at this remarkable story together!”
There will be a presentation, using material from Paula Gooder’s book “Journey to the Manger”, and then discussion groups when we can share and learn together.

All sessions on Thursdays at 7pm

• Genealogies – 26th November
• Announcements – 3rd December
• Arrivals – 10th December
• Aftermaths – 17th December

To join, email amb.strathclyde@btinternet.com, expressing interest: you will receive a Zoom link

Events all day on Sunday 29 November - all free.

See https://www.facebook.com/SolasFestival and https://www.solasfestival.co.uk/.

Nik Wooller, Andrew Baker and Laurent Vernet  invite you to travel with them through Advent 2020 along with others who live life with a Methodist flavour in Scotland. They say,
“It would be great to have people from across the districts [Scotland and Shetland] looking at this remarkable story together!”
There will be a presentation, using material from Paula Gooder’s book “Journey to the Manger”, and then discussion groups when we can share and learn together.

All sessions on Thursdays at 7pm

• Genealogies – 26th November
• Announcements – 3rd December
• Arrivals – 10th December
• Aftermaths – 17th December

To join, email amb.strathclyde@btinternet.com, expressing interest: you will receive a Zoom link

Nik Wooller, Andrew Baker and Laurent Vernet  invite you to travel with them through Advent 2020 along with others who live life with a Methodist flavour in Scotland. They say,
“It would be great to have people from across the districts [Scotland and Shetland] looking at this remarkable story together!”
There will be a presentation, using material from Paula Gooder’s book “Journey to the Manger”, and then discussion groups when we can share and learn together.

All sessions on Thursdays at 7pm

• Genealogies – 26th November
• Announcements – 3rd December
• Arrivals – 10th December
• Aftermaths – 17th December

To join, email amb.strathclyde@btinternet.com, expressing interest: you will receive a Zoom link

Nik Wooller, Andrew Baker and Laurent Vernet  invite you to travel with them through Advent 2020 along with others who live life with a Methodist flavour in Scotland. They say,
“It would be great to have people from across the districts [Scotland and Shetland] looking at this remarkable story together!”
There will be a presentation, using material from Paula Gooder’s book “Journey to the Manger”, and then discussion groups when we can share and learn together.

All sessions on Thursdays at 7pm

• Genealogies – 26th November
• Announcements – 3rd December
• Arrivals – 10th December
• Aftermaths – 17th December

To join, email amb.strathclyde@btinternet.com, expressing interest: you will receive a Zoom link