The church building was erected during 1870 and 1871 as a Christian Mission and dedicated by William Booth in 1871. William Booth is better known as General Booth of the Salvation Army, which he later founded. His wife, Catherine, laid the foundation stone on Thursday, July 6th, 1871.

The church became a United Methodist Chapel in 1907 and on the occasion of the Methodist Union in 1932 three branches of the Methodist Church, the Wesleyan, the Primitive and the United joined to become one church denomination.

In 1958 the Church was extensively renovated. In 1979 a hall and kitchen were added and this was fully modernised in 2013. The hall is now a popular venue for many church and village activities.

Rose Lilian Gray : 21 February 1934 – 27 June 2022

Our Church was full on the 21st July when we had a service of thanksgiving for the life of Rose who passed away at the end of June. Rose has been a Methodist all of her life & Rose & Bill met each other in a Methodist youth club. With Bill she had also been actively involved with Methodist Guild Holidays as together they ‘hosted’ holiday groups & shared their love & hospitality with friends.

Reverend Alan Hewitt led the service & spoke about Rose reminding him of the amazing varieties of ‘rose’ flowers that have some appropriate & characteristic names: Faith, Enchanted, Beautiful, Delightful, Peace ……. What a lovely way to remember a ‘special’ person.

We will really miss Rose & ‘give thanks’ for all that she has done throughout her life & the ways in which she has influenced all she met. We especially also remember Bill, Tim & John, & their families in our prayers. Please think about them all.

------------------------------------------------                         

We look forward to welcoming Revd. Crawford Logan to our Circuit on September 4th & then his first service with us at Ninfield will be on Sunday October 2nd when we will celebrate our Harvest Festival.

Really pleased that our Messy Church will start-up again in September (see below) when our theme will be ‘All good gifts’. We hope to also visit the school to lead an assembly prior to this date if possible. Should be good! ‘ Thanks be to God.’

Paul Burson

Sep

2022

Ninfield Sunday Services and Events

4th

10:30am

Café Worship with Dawn Novis

4th

4:00pm

Welcome Service for Rev Crawford Logan at St Leonards Methodist Church

11th

10:30am

Worship and Praise Service

18th

10:30am

Worship & Praise with John Troughton

25th

10:30am

Worship & Praise with Steve Wise

Sep

2022

Other Activities at Ninfield

10-11:30am

Community Café every Friday

2nd

10-11:30am

Book Exchange (with Community Café)

14th

2:30- 4:00pm

Christian Women’s Fellowship

28th

3:30- 5:30pm

Messy Church “All Good Gifts”