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.

As usual, at this time of the year we celebrate Harvest-time. We are pleased to be welcoming the Ninfield Scouts to our service celebrations on October 4th. The Reverend Cynthia Park loves drama and she is planning to share with us a story all about 'McMisery Farm!' Sounds good. If you are able to bring any Harvest gifts (Tins etc) they will be shared with the Bexhill Foodbank. See you on the day...

Every Sunday we continue to organise a Juniors' group which means that young people who come along for our service at 10.30am can move into our Hall for their own activities, after a short combined time together in Church. Parents can either stay in Church or move with them. On Harvest Sunday we will however all stay together in Church.

We had a good Mission planning morning in September and also looked at our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Reverend Ian led us through all these reflections. We continued to endorse our existing Mission Statement: 'Ninfield Methodist Church exists to share the love of God through our relationship with each other, and our community.' We will now be working on further plans to put this statement into practice.

On Sunday October 11th we will be joining with our Area Churches for a United service at the Emmanuel Centre (Methodist Church) Battle TN33 OFL in the afternoon; so there will not be a morning service at our Church on this date. Everyone is very welcome.

Please continue to remember and pray for all that we are doing to share the love of God in our community.

Paul Burson