From 1st September 2025 the Kendal Methodist Circuit ceased to exist and we became part of the larger Cumbria Methodist Circuit,  

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The circuit held a leaving service on Sturday 19th July to celebrate all that Rev Melanie has shared with us during the 5 years she has been stationed in the circuit.  She will shortly be moving to the North Lancashire circuit.

Revs Wendy Thornton and Tiras Dainty-Share led the service, which featured some of Melanie’s favourite worship songs and hymns [a difficult choice to narrow down, she said].  Rev Barbara Fairburn preached, her theme ‘Everyday God’, which fitted so well with one of Melanie’s hymn choices, Earth’s creator, everyday God  by Bernadette Farrell.

The churches in the circuit presented various gifts to Melanie, including money, plants, a card from the Sunday Club, a bucket and fishing net for trips to Morecambe beach and a ‘Shrimpers’ sun hat!

Afterwards we were all treated to a magnificent afternoon tea.

As the 8 Methodist circuits come together to form one Cumbria Methodist Circuit on 1st September various paid and unpaid positions need to be filled.  Advertisments for these positions can be found below.

Circuit Treasurer  [paid/ voluntary]

Assistant Circuit Treasurer [ voluntary]

The Methodist Women in Britain residential weekend will be taking place on 10-12th November at Thornleigh, Grange over Sands.  The speaker this year is Hilary Evans – Past President MWiB who will speak on the theme of “One Fine Day”.  Booking form and more details can be found here.

July 4th to 6th.   Arnside Methodist Church are planning a weekend of celebrations, as well as holding various events over recent months.  The programme for the weekend can be found here.  The guest preacher on Sunday 6th July will be Rev Richard Teal.  More details of the special events planned ver the coming months can be found on their website.

District Online Worship: Sunday 13th April at 6.30pm
Following a successful launch in March, our next District Online Worship will take place on Sunday 13th April at 6:30pm. This month our speaker is the Rev Phil Gough, District
Secretary for Ministry and Vocations. The Zoom link can be obtained by emailing prayer@nwedmethodists.org.uk

As is our usual practice time is spent at our circuit meeting sharing good news from the churches.  If you would like to read about the good things happening in our churches please click here

We are excited to announce that on the second Sunday of every month, we will be having
District Online Worship on Zoom. The first one is taking place on Sunday 9th March at
6.30pm with guest speaker Rev. David Hardman, Methodist Liaison Officer in Jerusalem,
joining us live from Jerusalem, to help us at the beginning our Lenten journey, ‘The Way of
Jesus’. The zoom link is as follows:
https://zoom.us/j/97923125645?pwd=L656LDUauCGtv46fg2PoKXxwI24E8a.1
Meeting ID: 979 2312 5645
Passcode: 543701

The annual North West England District safeguarding meeting will take place on Saturday 17th May.  The webinar will start at 10am and finish at 12 noon.  The details of how to sign up for the webinar are on the this poster and displayed below.

The Spring newsletter and prayer diary for March to May are ow available to download.