2nd. March 2025 - Liz Little (Parade Service)
9th. March 2025 - Janet Watts (Agape)
16th. March 2025 - Local Worship - John Sackett
23rd. March 2025 - Live Stream
30th. March 2025 - Rev. Michael Giles (Holy Communion)
MARCH 2025
Verse for the month
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures, great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all
Cecil Frances Alexander
Dear all,
At this time of year with each day creation is on display with the spring flowers, how often do we think about our own creation.
These facts may surprise you: Did you know that the heart beats 115,000 times a day or that our blood travels 12,000 miles every day (that's 20 times the length of the UK!) or that adults take an average of 18,000 to 30,000 breaths a day and that most of these functions take place without us even being aware of it. Absolutely awesome!!! Our bodies are superb machines, each part working with another at the right time and in the right place - so is it by chance or the result of an accident?
King David was no scientist , yet he saw that each of us as a complex product of God's amazing hands. He knew and wrote these words:
"You made all the delicate parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb … How precious are your thoughts about me … They cannot be numbered … and when I wake up, you are still with me!"
Today let's just be grateful for how God has made us! Lynda
Eco Church
You will be pleased to know that, thanks to Jean, the Church has been awarded the Silver Award for being an Eco Church. This is no mean achievement so thanks to her and for your ideas as to how we can save energy (and money at the same time).
Stationing
Rev Michael Giles has said that Rev Sydney Sichilima is to be stationed in the North Bedfordshire Circuit from September 2025 with pastoral charge of Kempston East, Kempston West, Wootton and Haynes churches. There would shortly be an opportunity for members of the Circuit Leadership Team to meet Rev Sichilima via a Zoom/Teams meeting, and an expectation that that would be followed by similar meetings with individual Churches in advance of his arrival.
MARCH 2025
Coffee Morning
will be held on 8th. March 2025 from 10.00am to 11.30am. This month, it is in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Last month we raised £180.00 for the Primrose unit ! Well done and thank you to all who contributed in any way.
If you want to help the R.N.L.I. further, little jars are available in the foyer to fill with 5ps to help with this cause.
Holy Communion Service
will be led by Rev. Michael Giles on 30th March 2025.
Church Council
Please note the next Church Council has been changed to May 11th 2025. Hope this does not inconvenience anybody.
Kempston West Methodist Church is part of the
North Bedfordshire Methodist Circuit, which is part of the
Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire Methodist District, which is part of the
The church building dates from 1860 and the frontage was re-modelled in 1967.
More history can be found in My Weslyan Methodists and Bedfordshire Archives.
We just have been granted the A Rocha Eco Church Silver Award in recognition of our efforts to care for God's earth in each of the following areas: Worship and Teaching, Management of Buildings and Land, Community and Global Engagement, Lifestyle.
We are a Fairtrade Church, committed to supporting Fairtrade farmers by using fairly traded products and promoting them in the community.
Who else meets on our premises?
1st Kempston Girls Brigade meets on Wednesdays during term time.
Bunyan Preschool meets on weekdays during term time.
Kempston Concert Band meets on Monday evenings.
Our Minister is always willing to talk to anyone on matters of concern.
Minister
Revd. Michael Giles
Location
