There are some pictures above of our Good Friday shared remembrance service in the garden, replaced today by the joyous flowered cross, and our Easter garden flowers.

Thanks to everyone who organised, took part and joined us for either Hot Cross buns (Friday) or Easter Sunday breakfast.

Each Tuesday, between 9.30 and 11.30, join a new, free, community children's clothing exchange which will be held in the sanctuary. 

Bring along clothing for 0-3 year olds' to swop or donate. 

We are proud to be used our building to support this brilliant project which will reduce waste, save money and help live sustainably. 

Please spread the word!

Thanks to everyone who joined us and especially. Attached is a photo of (most of) our leadership team along with Rev Vicky, our District Chair (far left) and Rev Richard, our President of Conference (4th from right).

If anyone wants a copy of our launch brochure then please get in touch this outlines a number of activities over the coming 12 months (watch this space).

(You can read more about Rev Richard, and his theme for the year, by clicking here or watching this short video  "Our story, our song." couldn't more appropriate for an anniversary year!)

Enough said!

Greetings from all us: HALF YEAR 2022

Nowadays,  Madagascar our country is in a never seen crisis :Many things have impacted our country’s life and every Malagasy citizen, especially in our daily life:

• Climate change (Drought and flood which often happened.)
• Covid 19 still remains and kill people slowly.
• Petrol price increases ( 1 liter cost £ 1,50) and causes a never seen inflation ,consequently the value of the Malagasy money  tumbles down and our purchasing power is becoming insignificant !

Insecurity  is horrible  both in urban and in rural areas (Robbers, Killers, Stealers, Kidnapers…).The Government is in  several  great difficulties  and is afraid of new riot …Here, everybody  is in  a panic  situation ! Everything  are suddenly becoming  too  expensive for all us!

A  REFLECTION :

“ For how can I bear to see the calamity which is coming upon my country ? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my family ? “ Esther 8 : 6

A  VISION:

Prov. 29 : 18 Where there is no vision people perish .… but man comes out to his work and to his  labours until evening. Psalms 104 : 23 

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Always do your best  ; what you plant now you will harvest later .

DECISION  &  PROJECT

Due to these circumstances, we cannot create any other new projects . But the previous ones are held,continued  and  improved in terms of quantity and quality.

In the agricultural enterprise : We will improve our skills, we will use the  lombricompost and regular watering…for   fruit  trees. We will use some insecticide…

In the  livestock  enterprise : We will ameliorate their main  food for having enough good quality of products… (meat – milk –eggs  …) We will use good Vitamins and some  useful  veterinary medicinal products…

 HARVEST  APPEAL  2022

“ Freely you have received, freely give “ Matt. 10 : 8

In what ways is GOD asking us  to give to HIM, so that others  may benefit ?.

To sum up, we will need more prayers and  some help to improve the products by providing enough good  food and more medicinal products.

For the fields :£1000 and for the livestock : £1000………………Total : £2000

           “  For where your Treasure  is , there will your heart be also “ Mat.6 : 21

Some update photographs to show you the blessings of God and the results of your prayers and your financial supports in our last  Harvest  time. 

We always remember you all , both in our mind and in our daily prayer.

Warmest  Regards.

Fr  Georges and Eveline.

All the Congregation Antananarivo MADAGASCAR

Their services are being reduced and changed due to funding with the following quote from Barbara-Anne Walker the Chief Executive:-

“This is one of the hardest moments in Ashgate’s history. We never wanted to be in this position, but the reality is that the NHS does not fund us fairly for the care we provide here in North Derbyshire. 

“That’s why we are now consulting on proposals to reduce the number of inpatient beds, reshape some of our services and make changes to our team structures. These are heartbreaking choices, but they are necessary to protect Ashgate’s future for the generations of patients and families who will need us."

Full details are here.

We have previously supported as one of our monthly donations but, instead, we have decided to donate all proceeds from our Thursday community coffee morning for the next 3 months.

Everyone is welcome, you'll get tea coffee, a choice of cake and great chat.......all whilst doing good. Make it the meeting point with your friends!

Merry Christmas from everyone at Killamarsh Methodist Church. We wish you love, peace and joy for today and throughout 2026.

Personally, we've been involved in advent prayer and reflection on Youtube, led by ministers, preachers and worship leaders from across Sheffield.

We welcomed:-

• over 80 people to Curry and Carols with members of Chapeltown Silver Band.
• almost 60 people to our Christmas Community lunch
• over 40 people to our nativity (plus on-line contributors)
  
  

........and we've loved every minute of sharing the good news.  We've also collectively sent £600 to Sheffield City of Sanctuary- our chosen charity.

(Have a scroll through our pics.)

If you can't join us for Christmas Day,  we wish you a Merry Christmas and every good wish for 2026.

If you wish to follow the series as we journey through Advent click and subscribe here

We live in troubled times with increasing signs of division and discrimination. The sermon focused on rising intolerance and anxiety and the strengths of community while understanding the benefits of living together, in love.

And of course how we can be guided by Jesus' teaching and example.  

Learn more here and join us next week for insightful conversation........and HOPE.

On Sunday 23rd November, we continued our discussions and were challenged to think of the opposite of "fear".

The suggestion was that could be "community" and we were given these helpful words for our conversations as a people of faith:-

• "I believe everyone is our neighbour."
• "My faith teaches me that love doesn't stop at borders."
• "I'd rather build community than walls."

As always the challenge is putting our faith into action.......without fear. 

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can, in all the places you can,
at all the times you can, to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can. 

As a church, we try to follow this teaching. We try to serve, through our coffee morning, our free breakfast and our monthly community lunch. The food is provided by our congregation, and  some generous donors, which means any donations received can be given to charity. We add in monies from our members benevolent fund. To ensure we meet "in all the places you can" we rotate our charities between local, national and international. We also support disaster appeals. 

So, we are pleased to announce in our last financial year we gave away £3990.

And we hope to do this "as long as ever we can". A huge thank you to all our congregation and kind donors. Please keep giving.

Here are the charities we supported: International Rescue, Fund for Human Need, British Legion, Father Georges, Big Issue, Christian Aid, Weston Park, Cliff student support, Traidcraft Exchange Big Brew. Comic Relief, Christian Aid (Myanmar), Embrace (Middle East), Methodist Women in Britain, Ben's Place, City of Sanctuary. 

Over the seasons, our garden is where we share our messages with our village community.

We hope you like our new flag.

At Killamarsh Methodist Church we "welcome diversity" AND we say together "All are welcome".

Reverend Sean will lead us daily and provide a video to help us reconnect with our prayer life, based on Celtic Daily Prayers from the Northumbria community. You'll find a launch video  by clicking Introduction and invitation . Every day after that you can click to access  our Youtube channel.

We'd love you to join and provide feedback.

It's also been the subject of debate within church where we are constantly trying to make sense of our world relative to our Christian faith.  We recognise that:-

• this flag is our flag and so represents everyone in the country
• St George is of Greek origin, who died for his Christian faith, and we share him as patron with Ukraine, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Beirut, Moscow and many others. 
• Christ was a refugee (Matthew ch2 v 13-15)
• all people are made in the image of God

As a local community church we stand by our ethos that "all are welcome" and we remember the  words of the great theologian, change-advocate and pastor, Rev Desmond Tutu, that “hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” 

If you're interested in joining this discussion or others, our doors are open and we have regular debates when we gather for  "What in the  world is going on" (details of which you can find elsewhere on this website).

Meantime, we will update our garden display with our flag of diversity.

God bless, everyone.

For the summer, we have a new word "JOY" which is one of the nine Fruits of the Spirit , attributes which reflect a life led by the Holy Spirit. As a member of the church, we are challenged to life our life with joy in our hearts, because of our relationship with God and the promises He makes to us.

The sign is a reminder to reflect on what in our life is giving us joy, and to be thankful. We hope you too can reflect on the positive thinks happening around you.

Thanks to everyone involved in the build.

Many people find nature a great way to feel closer to God. A garden is a small, natural place to stop, think and connect.....or simply watch the word go  by.

As a church we believe we serve our community, so, we've updated our sign with a simple statement of invitation: "Our garden is always open and is a place for you to rest and reflect in a busy world." And we've just given it a bit of a spruce up (so thanks to everyone involved in the work). 

Give it a go and look at our successful fruit trees.. All are welcome!

In our second session, Chris Hewer joined us  and delivered  two sessions are "Israel: Understanding Jewish (and some Christian) perspectives" followed by "Palestine: Understanding Muslim (and some Christian)perspectives". You can view these two amazing, and relevant, talks plus the introduction and Q&A through 4 different videos on our new Page for this series. Have a look and if you want to talk.....well you know where we are!  

Look our for our next session soon. 

SUMMARY PART ONE

  Our faith does not operate in a vacuum and today we had our first session led by Dr Chris Hewer where we learned more about "Islam and the Middle East". We enjoyed danish pastries and cake/sausage rolls in the break .... just Muslims are about to start Ramadan. 

This was a truly fantastic session with some great questions, shared by 29 friends from a number of backgrounds, which this site would struggle to do justice to.  It would definitely be worth visiting https://chrishewer.org/ to dig deeper. Thank you Chris for a fascinating insight.

 All are welcome to these events, so, fellow seekers, look out for the next topic soon. 

We often share where we have seen God at work locally, and in our lives, but it's also good to read or hear about this slightly further afield.

There's a regular District Podcast which is worth a regular listen for uplifting stories from other churches called "Faith, Hope and the Journey".

Why not have a listen?

But we also join in with others' neighbourly activities through donations and also free use of our building.  

• In December, the church was given over to a Christmas Coffee morning fundraiser for Weston Park Hospital where we are pleased to report £807.89 was raised. Congratulations to all involved, who are almost at their target of £25,000. Amazing!!
• In November, we volunteered our hall for tap dancing auditions when  Wales Community Theatre lost temporary access to their rehearsal space.  
• In October, Sing4stroke put on a concert.

Do you have a brilliant idea and need a location....... please get in touch to discuss using our community rooms. 

PS apologies for American spelling - but what a great image! 

The few images here are:-

• the finished nativity scene outside our building,
• our curry and carols event (supported by Chapeltown silver band)
• our community lunch
• Dame Dolly.....the imagined innkeeper from Bethlehem and star of our nativity
• Carol singing at the end of our Christmas morning service.

From all at Killamarsh Methodist, we wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year.

To find out more about Food Works, please click here but  they:-

• upcycle quality surplus and locally grown ingredients into delicious food and drink in their Kitchens  in Sharrow and Upperthorpe.
• collect and share surplus food at their Market  , and through partner hubs.
• develop hyperlocal food production through community growing on our Farm on the Manor (next to Rhubarb café) 
• empower people with skills, knowledge and support in our Community
  

A fabulous charity we love to work with. Give a meal a try or support one of their sites!

Sean comes to us as our new part time minister from the start of September 2024, here in the Killamarsh and Renishaw along with
Mosborough a short distance away. He has served previously on the Derbyshire North East Circuit, the Rotherham & Dearne Valley Circuit and
before that as minister in the Methodist Church in Ireland where he did his initial ministerial training. He has served the wider church as the
Director of Vocational Learning and Acting Director at a Training Institute in York, and as the Deputy Chair of District for the Sheffield
District. He will also be engaging in doctoral research from September as well as a new District role as Secretary of Synod.

Sean says, "Having spent 26 years serving to the north and then the south of these communities, I am delighted to come now to serve these churches and communities in the middle, at the heart of their communities. I am excited to work alongside some wonderful congregations who I have known about and from time to time worked with for some years. I'm looking forward to the days ahead."

Sean's first service is Sunday 1st September and, as always, we'd love to see you, but especially to hear his first words for us. 

Thanks to everyone who donated and especially to our property committee for making this happen.