Methodists belong to local churches or ecumenical partnerships, but also feel part of a larger connected community, the Connexion.
This sense of being connected makes a difference to how the Methodist Church as a whole is structured. At its heart is an understanding of the Christian community as the 'body of Christ'. Just as a human body contains different limbs and organs that depend on each other, so we should be close and caring enough to feel each other's pain and delight. We should put the good of the whole body before our own individual needs.
Each day we will provide a number of items as a focus for prayer. These could be related to the Derbyshire North East Circuit, Sheffield Methodist District (of which we are a part) or the wider Methodist Connexion around Britain and the rest of the world. You are invited to use this page each day as part of your personal devotional and prayer time.
SCOTLAND/SHETLAND DISTRICT – Chair: Mark Slaney. Deputy Chair: Stephen Chapman.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Council of Bishops
President: Tracey Smith Malone.
Ecumenical Officer: Rosemary Wenner and Hope Morgan Ward.
Secretary: L Jonathan Holston.
Executive Secretary: Gregory V Palmer.
Ecumenical Staff Officers: Jean Hawxhurst and David Field.
SHEFFIELD METHODIST DISTRICT – Your own church.
DERBYSHIRE NORTH EAST METHODIST CIRCUIT – Pray for the life and work of Barlborough Methodist Church and their minister, Rev'd Mark Carrick.
Charity Number: 1133796
circuitoffice@dnemethodists.org.uk
Circuit Office
Central Methodist Church
Chesterfield
S40 1UH