WE ALL COME ALONG EACH SUNDAY TO SEE OUR FRIENDS AND  TO LEARN ABOUT THE LORD. 
EVERY SUNDAY WE GO INTO CHURCH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SERVICE FOR A WHILE AND THEN COME OUT TO DO OUR OWN ACTIVITIES.

WOMEN'S
FELLOWSHIP

The Women's Fellowship meet every Tuesday at 2.15pm in the large hall where we host speakers on many different subjects. As our name suggests we are a fellowship of women who gather to exchange views, become better informed and worship together. We raise money during the year for World Mission by holding Coffee Mornings ay which we have stalls selling a wide variety of items. Collections are also made throughout the year supporting other charities through our 'Penny Jars'.

We are very much part of Selsey Church and as such are members of 'NETWORK', the umbrella organization which covers all women in the Methodist Church. The aims of NETWORK are to encourage, enable and equip women to participate fully in the life and work of the Church and in society. It organizes events in the Circuit, Area and District and we all enjoy taking part.

Bible study meetings held on alternate Thursdays have now been temporarily discontinued and replaced by a new bible study programme called DISCIPLE. 

This new bible study programme uses daily bible readings and weekly sessions to bring out our gifts and abilities. An expert video is part of every session and course members use a study manual to help them reflect and respond.

Disciple involves commitment. The financial cost is about £1 per session. Each weekly session is about two hours and you will need to spend about a half an hour a day in bible reading. The study lasts a year but there are breaks for holidays. During the year you will read almost the whole bible. Many groups over the past seven years have reported very positive results.

The course sessions take place on Wednesdays at 2.00pm. If you would like to join the group please contact
Rev Andy Lowe on 01243 583523

This DISCIPLE course has now been completed. Details of the next course will be posted on this website when available.

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Although mostly Methodist, the meeting is open ended. The next door neighbour is welcome, or a friend on holiday, and so on. Approximately twelve attend regularly and the leadership is shared by the group.

A hymn or song of praise is sung and we then offer thanks to God and prayers for others and ask him to instruct and inspire us in Bible study.

Details are often known beforehand which helps us come prepared. Alternatively, other subjects may be used or a personal problem may be shared by all. The host serves refreshment and the meeting ends with the saying of The Grace.

4^th June- 7.30pm at 69 Crablands Close

This evening Ray will introduce us to some of the problems associated with “Euthanasia”

 18^th June – 7.30pm at 50 Marine Drive

This evening we continue with our series on The Lord’s Prayer as we look at “As we forgive those who trespass against us”. Led by David.

 As a young priest, John Wesley spent a short time in Georgia, serving as a missionary in Savannah while his brother Charles served as chaplain to General Oglethorpe, the Governor.  On hearing the General say, “Sir, I never forgive”. John Wesley replied “Then I hope sir you never sin.”

The Lord’s Prayer makes it very clear that we cannot experience forgiveness unless we are forgiving.  It is easy to understand why Augustine of Hippo called it” the terrible petition”. It is the only one with a qualifying clause – “As we forgive.”

Philip Yancey says that if we refuse to forgive, we imprison ourselves in the past and so yield control of our lives to those who have wronged us.  He tells how, after the Holocaust, an immigrant rabbi said “Before coming to America I had to forgive Adolf Hitler.  I did not want to bring Hitler inside me to a new country.”

Of course it is tempting to hold on to our grievances, cling to the status of “’victim’ and wallow in the sympathy that may go with it.  But our commentary reads- The good news is that in Christ there is plenty of room for hope.  He offers healing for our hurt and help with the often long drawn out task of forgiveness.

St. Augustine of Hippo knew so much about this personal spiritual struggle in his quest for God.  Born AD354 in Souk-Ahras, Namibia he was brought up a Christian by his devout mother.  After studying and teaching in Rome he experienced much soul searching before being ordained.  He returned to North Africa and became Bishop of Hippo where he worked tirelessly for Christ, opposed heresy and was a prolific writer of many books.  His Confessions’ is a world classic

You are warmly invited to come and share an evening with friends.  If you need a lift telephone 605086.