One Church – four locations


Posts by Robin Pattinson

Comment 22…

My view is that it is going to be very difficult or nearly impossible to maintain five buildings. My opinion is one  church be selected ,the other’s mothballed or even sold.Finding consensus will need everyone’s prayers.

Comment 21…

Obviously folks of the 4 Methodist church’s in the area will be finding a change rather daunting. Unfortunately we can’t look at this from a personal point of view or just because we have gone to one particular church for many years. The Methodist church is the Methodist church wherever we may go. It isn’t…

Comment 20…

I had a conversation with Rob, my son. He works at University East London in Arts which also has a school of architecture. When I told him about our commitment to nil carbon footprint, he said that is a mammoth task and just started recommending various trusts and funding groups who support charities, faith groups,…

Comment 19…

Just one thought. Does our thinking for the future include discussing whether we could work more closely with the URC? We have, between us, two large sets of town centre premises in Felixstowe a few hundred yards apart. Do we need both? There are other places where there is a joint URC / Methodist presence…

Comment 18…

We both think that you all do an incredible amount of work for outreach , but what worries us is where do you get spiritual food from, to recharge . We have in the past rushed around doing Gods work thinking this is what he or she wants , and it must be doing good…

Comment 17…

[Comments given to a third party] Basically she had been a bit shocked when at one of the earlier Tuesday Tunes Abe had said a prayer at the end and some of the folk club people had felt a bit hijacked. However they feel we need to promote our Christian aims and values more particularly…

“The Jennings vs Alzheimer’s”

This is a documentary following the Jennings family (Stuart Jennings is a Methodist Minister) who are the first family in the world to be diagnosed with hereditary, early-onset Alzheimer’s – a discovery which many think will be the key to unlocking a cure at last. This will be broadcast on BBC 2 on Monday 13th…