Metheringham New Life Church - Autumn 2011

New Life Church in Metheringham is an 'Expression' of New Life Church, Lincoln, and has been meeting on Sundays since January this year. We meet in the Methodist Chapel Hall on Sunday afternoons from 4.30pm and worship together with mainly modern worship songs led by guitar and/or keyboards. Sung worship is followed by a Bible based talk which is usually interactive in some way so the whole congregation feel involved. After the service, usually at about 5.30pm, we share refreshments together (tea/coffee and cake & biscuits) and chat and get to know one another a bit better.

New Life Church in Metheringham aims to Make a Difference to the people of Metheringham and the surrounding villages by looking for specific needs in the community and, after praying about those needs, seeing if there are ways in which we might help meet them. We have recently placed a 'Foodbank Collection Bin' in the Co-op Store (with the kind permission of the Co-op) which invites shoppers place certain non-perishable foods in the bin to help provide emergency 3-day food parcels for people who are in some sort of crisis once their needs have been assessed by a recognised agency such as Citizens Advice, Social Services etc. We are looking into the possibility of providing Debt and Financial Management Advice in the Village through the auspices of Christians Against Poverty (CAP), who already operate at New Life Church in Lincoln. As we identify needs in the Community we will continue to pray into those situations and seek to offer practical help where we can, co-operating with rather than competing with, existing agencies - many of which are already over-stretched.

In Co-operation with all of the churches in Metheringham (New Life, Methodist and Church of England) we are running an Alpha Course (as seen on TV, and advertised in cinemas etc) starting in September, meeting in the Methodist Chapel Hall. The Alpha Course is a 12 week course studying the Christian faith, and gives enquirers an opportunity to ask the questions we all have wanted to ask at one time or another. The main advertising slogan is 'is there more to life than this?' and the course seeks to answer that question and any others you might have.

The launch evening, where we'll share some supper, listen to testimonials and an outline of the course will be given, is on Thursday 8th September.

For more information on anything about New Life Church Metheringham please contact the Pastor: Alan Coates, on 07761827985.

Mission X meets in the Methodist Chapel Hall and is the Kids and Youth Club run by New Life Church.
Mission X Kids Club runs from 7 'til 8pm for school years 3 to 6.
Mission X Youth Club runs from 8.15 'til 9.30pm for school years 7 to 11.

Dates for the Autumn term are:
Friday 16th September
Friday 30th September
Friday 14th October
Friday 28th October
Friday 11th November
Friday 25th November
Friday 9th December