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2023

Welcoming new members & baptisms – 28th May 2023

Easter Sunday – 9th April

The Lenten Cross transformed

Easter Breakfast for the Fellowship

Good Friday Walk of Witness (Haverhill & District Churches Together) – 7th April

2022

Family Carol Service – 11/12/22

The Nativity tableau.

Toy service – 4/12/22

The congregation donate new toys and gifts for young people in and around Haverhill who would otherwise get very little at Christmas.

Our Town Mayor, Councillor Bruce Davidson, accepts the gifts on behalf of social services.

Liz Garwood being welcomed into membership – 19th June

Royal Platinum Jubilee Tea Party – 4th June

Easter Sunday 17th April – transforming the cross

Easter Sunday 17th April – Breakfast!

Easter Saturday 16th April – Find the Sheep event

Collect an answer sheet then find all the little knitted sheep in shop windows on the High Street & Queen Street

Return to HMC to meet real animals and join in fun craft activities followed by lunch.

Good Friday 15th April – Haverhill & District Churches Together Walk of Witnes

Sunday 20th February – Ron & Linda Walker being received into membership.

30th January – Gordon, May & Glenda being received into membership.

2021

Thursday 18th November – Cubs Christingle

Sunday 3rd October – Harvest Festival

Gifts and flowers in the church

Harvest Lunch

And two of our wonderful team of chefs!

Sunday 5th September – Sunday Club Anniversary

Here are some pictures from the service showing the work done on the parables of Jesus during the summer sessions

And the Birthday Cake!

Sunday 20th June – Fathers’ Day

Pictures for the sermon

Art works

Drawings by the children

Composite image of God

DNA double helix

Sunday 13th June

Slides for the opening prayer and the sermon

Easter Day – some of the Easter Crosses made by members of our congregation.

Evans Family Evans Family Evans Family Evans Family Frank & Lois Phillips

Hilary Curtis Kathy Cohen Mitchell Family Goodhall Family Glasswell Family

Kim Strowger

2020

December 6th

Toy Services

November 1st

Picture to go with sermon

Picture for Act of Remembrance

October 25th

Picture to go with prayers

Picture to go with sermon

October 4th Harvest Festival

We had two services, the 10am being all age and including the annual Sunday Club book presentation, the 11.30am being more traditional.

It was good to see so many people attending!

Action songs:

Bringing our gifts:

Our gifts – food and finances – to be sent to REACH.

April 12th Easter Sunday

Instead of our usual decoration of the Easter Cross in church we each made our own this year (under lockdown).

What talented people we have in our congregation!

Goodhall family Hibbert Family Shanks Family Hilary Curtis Rinaldi Family

Strowger Family Gill Jones Rosemary Fletcher Beaumont Family Loader family

Evans Family Hitchen Family Phillips Family Kathy Cohen Glasswell Family

Jen & Jay Hall Sue Hall Mary Thake

2019

December 22nd Christingle Service

Lighting the Christingles

Tom’s Christingle cake

Making the Christingles

Peter in his Christmas sprout hat!

The under/over game

December 15th

Facebook repsonses to the Christmas Angels

November 28th

1st Haverhill Cub Scouts Christingle Service

November 23rd

Messy Church Advent

November 17th

Dedication of Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes and 450+ Christmas Angels.

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November 10th

Remembrance Poppies

November 3rd

Global Bring & Share Lunch – food from around the world, celebrating our diversity!

Baptism of Clodagh Labbie

October 13th

Harvest Lunch – a veritable feast! (Thanks to Dave Rinaldi & his team!!)

Harvest Festival – bringing our gifts

September 21st Sunday Club outing to Paradise Wildlife Park

September 14th Historic Churches Ride & Stride

The Britten family cycled 35.5 miles and visited 29 churches raising money for historic churches in Suffolk and our own church.

September 8th Sunday Club Anniversary

Blowing out the candle on the birthday cake.

August 11th

With the theme of ‘Always be ready’ we had a visiting firefighter tell us about how they prepare for their work.

Prepared for a holiday, prepared for an accident, prepared for Christmas and prepared to deal with an emergency.

and with some of our Sunday Club

August 4th

Our ‘vine’ of prayers on balloons.

April 21st Easter Sunday

After the 8am Holy Communion service we gathered in the church hall for Easter Breakfast – we were well fed!

After breakfast we had our all age celebration service during which the symbols were removed from the Lent Cross which was then smothered in flowers. The pictures show the gradual transformation from a plain wooden cross to a beautiful symbol of New Life.

Detail of some of the flowers:

April 19th Good Friday

We started with a short service at the Old Independent Church, Hamlet Road.

Then followed the cross along the High Street to the Market Square.

A welcome from Rev Peter Goodhall and the message – The Impact of the Nails – from Major Linda Squirrell.

Sung worship led by the band and a solo from Jacqui during the prayer activity.

Then hot cross buns and tea/coffee in St Mary’s Church!

April 7th All Age talk with Major David Squirrell from the Salvation Army.

Making the point that the closer we are to Jesus the better our likelihood of hitting His target for us.

April 6th – Messy Church Easter Activities

and the team that fed them all

March 1st – (Women’s) World Day of Prayer

The table prepared for a Slovenian Celebration with traditional honey biscuits, bread,red carnations – a symbol of celebration – plus grapes and wine in a ceramic jug, products of Slovenia.

Some of the ladies involved in the service. Those sitting at the table took the parts of Slovenian women, reading their stories of life in Slovenia.

Jacqueline in Slovenian National Costume

Refreshments – with the traditional honey biscuits – after the service.

2018

December 16th – Carol Service & Nativity

A few shots of the young people towards the end of the Nativity (not very good as it was dark and they were moving!)

December 9th

We were reminded that our children and young people are a gift from God and this was illustrated for us.

December 2nd – Toy Service

We bring toys which are received by the Town Mayor on behalf of social services for distribution to local families in need at Christmas.

November 11th – Remembrance 100

Our Remembrance Poppy Cascade in honour of the fallen, but especially those whose names are inscribed on our Memorial Stone.

October 21st – Pioneer Commissioning

Charmaine Slade was commissioned as the very first Methodist Pioneer not just from this District but from the whole Methodist Connexion.

Charmaine with Rev Barbara Garwood (Deputy Chair of District) and Rev Peter Goodhall.

Charmaine with Senior Church Steward Jacqueline Stewart

October 7th – Harvest Festival Gifts

The Prayer Sunflower – the petals are post-it notes with prayers on.

Harvest Lunch – a veritable feast! Thanks to Dave R, Mike W & Mick E for all their hard work in preparing it.

Farewell presentation to Captain Andrew & Gemma Payne

June 24th – Youth for Christ Celebration Roadshow

The strawberry laces game

The ping pong ball game

Car Pool Testimony

The new logo

June 17th – Ability Sunday

Members of our Lantern Group for adults with learning disabilities led the service.

The pieces of wool representing us all joined together – they are being knitted into a scarf, picture when it’s done!

Share and Prayer time.

Drama – The Crowd, all wearing hats!

Zaccheus in his sycamore tree.

Jesus speaks to Zaccheus.

Singing “The Father Himself loves you” to each other at the end of the service.

April 1st – Easter Sunday

Decorating the Lenten Cross

The children investigate the ’empty tomb’

March 30th – Good Friday Walk of Witness and service following, with prayers on post-it notes on the cross – and of course the hot cross buns!

March 25th – Palm Sunday procession – complete with donkey!

2017

December 3rd – Toy Service with the Mayor

October 8th – Harvest Festival and Harvest Lunch

September 10th – Sunday Club Anniversary

What the young people created over the summer to illustrate God’s Superheros:

Esther Daniel Samson

David

September 3rd

Miss Thelma Mills is presented with her Long Service Certificate by Rev Peter Goodhall, to celebrate 60 years of being a Methodist Local Preacher.

and cutting her celebration cake

June 20th – 30th Anniversary of the opening of Next Door, our coffee/book shop and drop-in centre.

June 18th – Official opening and dedication of The Loft, our new upper room in the church hall, by Rev Julian Pursehouse – Chair of the East Anglia District. The room will mostly be used for young people’s activities.

May 27th – Cake sale for Christian Aid, about £100 raised!

April 16th – Easter Morning!

The empty tomb

The congregation decorate the Lenten Cross with flowers to celebrate the resurrection, having removed the symbols of Christ’s betrayal and crucifixion.