Annual report for 2010/11
AIMS.
AIMS.
The aim of the church is to further the work of God and proclaim new life through Jesus Christ. The Sunday services and weekly activities are structured to provide the atmosphere and conditions to reach out to the community.
PROGRESS and ACHIEVMENT.
It is pleasing to report that throughout our second year at Weymouth Bay the regular Sunday morning congregation has remained at approximately one hundred. New people have continued to join our congregation and there have been visitors from across the UK and abroad, some visiting for a second or third time. The warm welcome visitors receive on entering the church is always very much appreciated. Our evening services have maintained a congregation of approximately thirty. Worship leaders have taken an active part in the preparation and taking of these services, which have continued to use a variety of styles as well as the more traditional Methodist service. In February we had a successful Billy Graham Weekend organised by Rev’d Barrie Snook.
The Junior Church has maintained its numbers and is divided into two groups, pre-school and school age. The children and the adult helpers again prepared services for Advent and Junior Church Anniversary. With the help of parents in the kitchen, the Junior Church provided a lunch for church members on Christian Aid Sunday.
We have had two infant baptisms and two weddings during the year. It was fitting that the first bride in our new church was the granddaughter of two of our members and that she had also been a member of the Junior Church at the old Maiden Street Church. Ten adults have been received into membership and two members transferred from their church in Fleet. Four of our older members have moved to be nearer their families and have had their membership transferred to churches near their new homes.
The ladies’ CAMEO Group, which meets from Autumn through to Spring, has continued to see an increase in numbers. For the men there is now a monthly Chaps and Chips evening. This initiative was started by Rev’d. Barrie Snook to give men of faith or no faith an opportunity to come along for a chat and ask questions on any topic. Numbers are small at the moment and we pray that numbers will grow. .
Four of our members have received the District Safeguarding Training and have since taken a Circuit Safeguarding Training Evening. Other members have attended a Listening Course and a day on Prayer and Healing Ministry.