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.
THE BRITISH METHODIST CONFERENCE
President: Helen Cameron.
Vice-President: Carolyn Godfrey.
Secretary of the Conference: Jonathan Hustler.
Assistant Secretary of the Conference: Michaela Youngson.
Conference Officer for Legal and Constitutional Practice: Joanne Anderton.
Youth President: Bea Hulme.
THE METHODIST DIACONAL ORDER
Warden: Karen McBride.
Deputy Warden: Michelle Legumi.
SHEFFIELD METHODIST DISTRICT – Chair of Sheffield District Revd Gill Newton in her final year as District Chair.
DERBYSHIRE NORTH EAST METHODIST CIRCUIT – Pray for the Methodist Church in Britain in general and the Sheffield District in particular, of which our Circuit is a part.
Charity Number: 1133796
circuitoffice@dnemethodists.org.uk
Circuit Office
Central Methodist Church
Chesterfield
S40 1UH