Althorpe

Membership 15 (incl. 1 Worship Leader)

Minister:- Revd. V. Phillips 01724 710311

Secretary:-

Miss B Oldridge

01724 868367

Treasurer:- 

Mrs N Craddock

01724 782681

 

 

 

 

 

 

A small village church over 130 years old with an adjoining hall.
With Belton and Keadby/Amcotts there is a monthly afternoon united service.
The Chapel has good contacts with the Residential Home in the village.
The members hope to re-initiate their monthly midweek fellowship now Disciple is complete.

Our Mission:

As the community of Althorpe Methodist Church, we aim to share Jesus, bringing out his values through worship, prayer, hope, forgiveness, kindness, openness and honesty, but above all love, thereby fulfilling God's mission through loving relationships to all ages, by faith.

In pursuit of this aim we will:

1.            Go out, to engage with the community, where they are, as Christ's representatives.

2.            Deepen our faith with the courage of David, the wisdom of Solomon, and the love of Jesus Christ.

3.            Experiment with ways to engage in work with the young people of our village.

4.            Develop our hospitality further, making our premises even more open and accessible.

5.            Provide a variety of opportunites for concentrated prayer for issues of justice and           peace.   

6.            Make the Bible more accessible to more people outside the church.

7.            Support and work with our fellow Christians, while keeping our own identity.

To achieve this, we have set ourselves the following goals:

Within two years (2004-2006):

  • Organize a garden party, if possible on the St Oswald's green.

  • Find out what people in the village really need

  •      Put on an outdoor village songs of praise

  •     Organize a Bazaar or a similar event.        

  • Begin a fellowship in addition to Disciple; a short, 'friendship', meeting, with a speaker.        

  • Hold a day of prayer for world peace or re-launch our Women's World Day of Prayer           

  •     Distribute Gospels or small booklets of scripture.  (Easter 2004)

 Over the following three years 2007-2009:

  • Follow up the Disciple course with one or two new housegroup/s.

  • Organise a village Races event and/or start a sports team.

  • Develop a scheme to help anyone in need in the village.

  • Share our crafts and other skills alongside our coffee mornings.

By 2015 we would like to be able to:

  • Build a relationship with the primary school in some way, alongside other churches, perhaps by going into the school if this can be arranged.

  • Plan a music workshop, if we can identify a way to do this, and someone who can lead it with a style of music young people could relate to.    

  • Launch a new 'Sunday School' for children in the village, if we can find a way of doing this which will work.

 We may identify other goals as we evaluate our progress
and as other opportunities/inspirations arise over the coming years.
 
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends.  And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, 13