Stockton Methodist Circuit

ADVENT SUNDAY A 30th November 2025 Opening Prayers This Sunday of waiting, this Sunday of beginnings I come to you, ready to join in with the waiting, O Lord, Beginning again my journey with you. I am seeking, Lord, Seeking after you, wanting to know more of you. Come and make yourself known to me at this fresh beginning, By your Spirit I pray Amen. You may now wish to say the Lord’s Prayer in a version or translation with which you are familiar. Reading: Matthew 24:36-44 –

We offer a warm welcome to Rev Kundai Katiyo, a new presbyter in the Circuit. Life will certainly be different for them and the weather a challenge. What we thought of as warm was not warm coming from Zimbabwe.  We hope that she, and her husband, will settle easily into both the manse and the Stockton Circuit. We wish her God’s blessing in her work.

Last month the Stockton Circuit had the opportunity to send the Rev Rachel Williams out to a new season of ministry and to give thanks for her service among us in the Stockton Circuit since 2021. Here is her stirring sermon to the congregation gathered at Greens Lane Methodist Church on 20 July 2025. I wonder if you have ever been travelling abroad. At the end of May, we went on a journey around Germany as a family. We visited the city that we lived in when Dad was in the Arm