Plan of Preachers for Sunday Services

As part of the Bournemouth Circuit of the Methodist Church, Winton enjoys the worship led by Ministers and Local Preachers from other churches in the town as well as our own Ministry Team. This page shows the preaching plan for our church for the forthcoming months. Each of the service codes are hyperlinked to an explanation at the bottom of this page. For clarification, just click the number. Our Sunday Explorers meet at 10.30, joining us for the first part of the service then going to their own classes.

Abbreviations

(S) - Sacrament of Holy Communion

A service in which we celebrate Christ's sacrifice for us and presence with us in the sharing of Bread and 'Wine'.

1 - United Service

Today we are sharing in worship with one or more of our neighbourhood congregations

2 - Covenant Service

A special sevice in Methodism when we as a church re-commit ourselves to Christ. This service happens one anually, normally on the first or second Sunday in January

3 - Church Anniversary

4 - Reception of New Members

5 - Home Missions

6 - World Church

7 - Local Preachers Sunday

8 - Choir Sunday

9 - Family Service

Our young people and Sunday Explorers will remain in the church for the whole service, and the order of service may be modified to accomdate the different age ranges.

10 - Women's Fellowship Anniversay

11 - Young Wives

12 - Men's Sunday

13 - Young People's Sunday

14 - Youth Workers' Dedication

15 - Sunday School Anniversary

Today we celebrate another year in the life of our work with children and young people. Our young people's work is now called Sunday Explorers.

16 - Parade Service

Today our Uniformed organisations will be parading their flags and banners into the Church and we will be hearing some of the success stories from their past month

17 - Guild Anniversary

18 - Harvest Festival

Bring your Harvest gifts (fruit, vegetables, tinned food, etc..!) to be placed in the church as an act of worship, thanking God for another bountiful Harvest. In these modern days, we commonly praise God also for the many other ways in which we enjoy life. Some of our songs celebrate the diversity of produce enjoyed in our homes and lifestyles as well as taking responsibility for sharing of the Earth's resources.

19 - Flower Service

20 - Special Service

21 - House Group Service

22 - Carol Service

Sing along with your favourite carols in our traditional Christmas Carol Service.

23 - Toy Service

In this service we bring to the church our gifts for the less well off through out the world. Normally these are good quality toys and games, or we join in one of the "Shoebox" appeals, and the gifts are transported to a particular nation for distribution. Please contact the stewards for further details if you would like to contribute to this appeal.

24 - Watchnight

Stay up with us in a special service until the day of celebration comes around at midnight

25 - Cradle Roll Service

26 - Youth Service

27 - Class Leaders' Service

28 - Open Air Service

You will probably find us on Winton Recreation ground, just over the road from the church premises. Venues will normally be clearly shown on this page.

29 - Teaching Service

30 - Civic Service

31 - Healing Service

32 - Regnal Service

33 - Springbourne

The Springbourne Family Support Project is an initiative of the Methodist Churches in Bournemouth to work with those single parent families living in bed-and-breakfast accomodation. Once a year we have a special service in our church to remember this work, pray for it, and we take a special collection to assit with its funding.

34 - Women's Guild Sunday

35 - All Age

36 - Prayer & Praise

Our Prayer and Praise services are an attempt to broaden our experience of worship, in line with our Mission Statement, and are commonly led by our worship band and one of the circuit Local Preachers or Ministers. One week it may be a queit, reflective service drawing on resources from Taizé or the Iona Community, the next we may be rockin' with Matt Redman and other modern worship material. These services are held monthly.

37 - Gift Service

Today we are making our special gifts to the Church, normally for a particular project.

40 - Christingle

The orange with a candle in it, a red band around it, and fruits representing the four seasons attached reminds us as Christmas approaches that Jesus Christ came to save the whole earth. This sevice will commonly include our Sunday School nativity play.

41 - Nativity

Everyone's favourite service of the year - our youngest young people presenting the story of the birth of Jesus Christ in dramatic form, usually with singing to join in with.

42 - Crib Service

43 - Candlelight Service

LA - Local Arrangement

The preaching plan is aranged by the circuit's Superintendent Minister, based on availability information provided by the Ministers, Deacons and Local Preachers in the area. Sometimes there is no preacher available at a particular time so if the church community wishes to hold a worship service LA means they have to sort it out themselves. They can invite a visiting preacher from another area or arrange a service of worship without preaching by themselves (as preaching in the Methodist Church is restricted to those who have undergone appropriate training. This maintains the quality a congregation can expect to hear from a preacher in a Methodist church.)