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Welcome from the Chair of Chester & Stoke-on-Trent District
Revd Helen Kirk
As the Chair of the Chester & Stoke-on-Trent Methodist District, I welcome you to our website, your starting place for information and resources for the Methodist Church in our area.
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The District covers a wide geographical area from Chester and Runcorn in the north down to Market Drayton and Stoke-on-Trent in the south. To the west we touch on Wales and to the east, the Staffordshire Moorlands. Our people live, worship, and serve in cities, towns, villages and rural communities across Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire.
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The District is home to the Englesea Brook Primitive Methodist Chapel & Museum and The Book Centre as well as nurturing New Places for New People as we seek to find fresh ways of being church.
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In all things we are seeking to fulfill our calling as Methodist people through worship, learning, caring, service to others and evangelism.
Revd Helen Kirk
Chair of Chester & Stoke-on-Trent District
Latest Stories from the District
To make a donation and find resources visit 'All We Can' by clicking the button:
Emergency Appeal:
Hurricane Melissa
All We Can is responding to Hurricane Melissa in partnership with the Methodist Church in Britain.
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We are working closely with our regional partner, the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA), to ensure that funds raised are directed to where they are most needed. MCCA is working on coordinating emergency relief efforts across affected communities in the region
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To help churches to engage in the appeal easily, there are resources for churches to use; a PowerPoint to display in church, some posters to put up, and a prayer written by the President and Vice-President of Conference. They are linked at the bottom of the appeal page.
Watching and Waiting in Advent
A Quiet Day led by Revd Helen Kirk
The District Quiet Day on 6th December is now fully booked; if any further names are received, these will be added to a waiting list. Further Quiet Days with the Revd Helen Kirk will be held on Saturday 7th March at Foxhill and Saturday 15 August at Shallowford. These will also be £10 per person per day. Bookings for these will open nearer the time.
