Central Hall Methodist Church

Location:   Ablewell Street, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 2EQ
Minister:   Rev. Dave Bonny

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Senior Steward:   Mr Alan Holt
Tel:   01922 692543

Church Council Secretary:   Sue Smith

Services are held on Sundays at 10.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.

Sunday School meets during the morning service.

The evening service is held in the Mellish room at the back of the building.
From September 2007 the Sunday evening services will be held twice a month alternating between a Communion Service and Taize style worship.

Our arrangements for June

Strawberry Tea on June 27th at 2pm to 4.30pm

Comrades

Ladies Circle

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Further ahead

Saturday 11th July - Open Gardens - 12 noon to 6 pm

Saturday 26th September - Coach trip to York


For details of Guides, Brownies and Rainbows please contact the Church Office on a Thursday morning between 9 am and Noon. Details of their programme can be found in the newsletter.

Guides….. Monday evenings

The Comrades Group (for Senior Citizens) meet at 2pm on Fridays

The Ladies Circle meet on Wednesdays at 8pm

The Meeting Place is open on Saturday mornings from 10.30 to 12.30

Bible study groups will meet fortnightly on Tuesdays, at Central Hall at 2pm and at 34 Elizabeth Road at 8pm.

Weekly programme:
SUN.
        Sunday Worship
                 Sunday School
                 Creche
                 Coffee & Conversation
MON.         Brownies, Guides
TUE.           Bible Study
WED.          Ladies Circle
FRI.            Comrades
FRI/SAT.    Meeting Place

Events:

The church council has decided to go ahead with substantive work on the pipe organ which is expected to be complete in around three years time. This work aims to improve the sound quality and reliability of the organ for the future.

The Meeting Place is open on Saturday mornings from 10.30 to 12.30 and on Fridays from 10.30 to 2pm

Comrades usually meet on Fridays at 2pm details from Mrs Margo Taylor

The Ladies Circle meet on Wednesdays at 8pm details from Mrs Jean Blackhall


Barry Weetman tells us that the Recorder won’t print accounts of long service presentations because there are so many of them… here’s the article they missed out on

150 Years of Preaching Celebrated!.

What a great night we had at Central Hall on the 27th April 2008 when well over 200 of us gathered to celebrate the achievements of not just two of our Local Preachers but 3. The service had been organised to celebrate 60 years of preaching for Fran Harper and 50 years for Gilbert Rowley but we has an addition to this celebration as we recognised the achievement of the late Mike Jackson who had completed almost 40 years on full plan. The service included hymns chosen by Fran and Gilbert, "Give me the Faith, and "And can it be" respectively, which were both written by Charles Wesley. We has an Isaac Watts hymn sung by the Sheffield Male Voice Choir who brought us "When I survey the wondrous cross" to the tune "Morte Christe" and then "I hear the welcome voice" to the tune Gwalahoddiad. Modern Methodist hymn writers were represented as we sang "The church of Christ in every age" by Fred Pratt Green and our final hymn went back to more traditional writers with "To God be the glory" by Fanny J .Crosby (Francis Jane Van Alstyne).

The reading was from 2 Timothy 4 and the brief sermon was about preaching the word in season and out of season and how each of one of us can preach the word by the way we live.

The Superintendent Minister, Rev John Davies presented the certificates and said a few words and tributes were paid to Fran by Frank Higgs, to Gilbert by Peter Robinson, with John Davies paying tribute to Mike Jackson.

I think that almost everyone who was at this service would say it was a fantastic evening and a great celebration of the achievements of our local preachers.


SEPTEMBER 4th 1943
Laurence Rogers: 18 Brookhouse Road, Walsall WS5 3AD writes:

If that date means anything to you drop me a line - I shall be delighted to hear from you. Meanwhile here is a cutting from the Walsall Observer reporting what happened...

The Central Hall Christian Youth Club opened on Saturday with a rousing Social evening. About seventy young people were present, and the party atmosphere prevailed, the pace being set by a hand-balloon game which squashed any formality at the start. Quickly following was a parcel game in which every wrapping (carefully saved for salvage) disclosed a typewritten command to the victim.
Before anyone quite recovered. Two girl and two boy volunteers, dressed in comical clothes, entered the arena of guests to put on an impromptu act.
The two boys proved themselves first rate knock about comedians as they tripped each other up, vainly clutching at an ever tippling top-hat. The girls were more restrained until the good-humoured company clapped them off the floor. A 3s-6d book token was awarded the boys, who were judged according to the applause.
Other games and stunts followed in quick succession. One boy won a bar of chocolate by fitting, at lightning speed, the correct lady with the correct pair of shoes, taken from a mixed-up pile of eleven pairs. There were tugs of war, and some remarkable flashes of dramatic art in a feature called "I Want to Act." The incidents portrayed ranged from mimicry of the small child to the tough guy of a Wild West saloon. Half-way through the evening the club leader, Mr. Laurence Rogers, explained the club organisation briefly. He said the club was to be run for youth and by youth. Although adult s would act as instructors to various activities, they would keep in the background. The members were to elect their own chairman to run each activity and they would have their own parliament, consisting of all the members and meeting every third Thursday.


The Alzheimer’s Society have an Information Centre in Lower Hall Lane open on Mon-Tues-Thurs from 11am to 3.30 p.m. Call 01922 634173 for details


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