Belton

Membership 10 (incl. 1 Local Preacher)

Morning services start at 10.30 a.m. in the schoolroom to the rear.

The schoolroom is open on Tuesday mornings for coffee and a chat, and Tuesday afternoons for a craft club.

Worship is currently taking place in the schoolroom, recently redecorated by members and friends.  The chapel itself is out of use while plans are being prepared, and funds raised, for its repair and renovation.  The chapel roof was repaired in January 2002.

The chapel is in a prominent position on the High Street between the C of E Primary School and the Public hall; not far from the doctor's surgery. 

The local Parish Church is about a mile away.  Joint services with the Anglicans include a communion service on the second Sunday of the month - at All Saints in February, May, and August (plus the Remembrance Day service), and at the Methodist schoolroom in January, April, July and October, besides the monthly afternoon service with the connected Parishes on the third Sunday of the month. 

We aim to

Renovate our premises in phases to provide open, flexible, comfortable and secure space in a prime position in the village, with a positive Christian atmosphere.

Develop our popular coffee morning, timed to serve the nearby doctor's surgery, as an attractive meeting point for residents during the day, thereby facilitating relationships between the traditional community and people newly moving into the area.

Consider the possibility of providing on site access to computers

• For coffee morning users.
• For homework clubs, if these could be set up in co-operation with others.
• For computer skills workshops, if this could be arranged.
• For the occasional enhancement of worship.
• For use by a Junior Church, if re-initiated.
• For producing quality publicity and communications material.

Make our premises available to the wider community.

Find informal ways of making new friends

Present ourselves and the Gospel positively

Build on our relationships with other community groups

Take up any opportunities to improve access / parking

Continue to respond with loving care to neighbours and friends.

In all this we are ready to accept and work with change on the understanding that this will be focussed on the Gospel of Christ and not the maintenance of a building for its own sake.  We see ourselves as stewards of premises key to the village in size, style and position, but this stewardship is undertaken as our part in Christ's service of our community, and if we agreed that his service might be better fulfilled through releasing the building to others in the community, we would be prepared to do that.