There are many ways in which the experience of many years is shared by committed Christians, through resources they make available to others
Search the Bible, see how the Bible is changing lives and find out about the Bible
If you are involved in music, drama, or any of the creative art, the Methodist Church has an enthusiastic group of involved people who make up ARTSERVE.ArtServe is an initiative of the Methodist Church Music Society (MCMS). MCMS has been around since 1935 and has been supporting Methodist musicians and the use of all types of music in worship.
Clicking on Artserve logo should take you directly to the Artserve website (http://www.artserve.org.uk/)
All involved in leading worship and preaching will probably receive the LWPT journal ICHTHUS.LWPT also has a comprehensive website, well worth visiting for many resources, and easily accesses by clicking on the logo (above left), and you can register there for Ichthus Online
Both personally and in worship each new edition of the Methodist Prayer Handbook connects
Christians from different times, places and walks of life. Timeless prayers are interwoven with new contributions - many from Methodists across the districts and around the world are in the new full-colour Handbook. This rich resource will bring mutual support and strength to all who share in it. To be a part of this worldwide community of prayer get your copy from your Church steward or from the Shop at the New Room very soon !
"ENCIRCLED IN CARE" Courses
If you are looking for a resource to train, empower and enable pastoral visitors and others to share in Christ's caring ministry, 'Encircled in care' is for you.
Within Bristol and South Gloucestershire courses have already been successfully running using this valuable Course during 2009.
For more details, please contact John Trebble and watch this website and its Diary
For the next Pastoral Carers' Course (Wesley College, Bristol)
contact: Barbara Bowden, Wesley College, College Park Drive, Henbury Road, Bristol BS10 7QD.
Tel: 0117 959 1200 Email: Barbara.Bowden@wesley-college-bristol.ac.uk
If you want to contact Christian Aid, the new Regional Coordinator for Christian Aid in Bristol and Somerset is Gill Alexander
Do let her know if there is anything that she can do to support your efforts for Christian Aid:
her email address is galexander@christian-aid.org
Preachers and Worship Leaders who use IT may find much to interest them in a Website dedicated to sharing images and presentations called 12 Baskets
Please click in the logo to go to their home page
You've taken a great photo or wrote an amazing skit, what do you do with it now? Use it once, file it away on your computer and forget about it? Or upload it to a website where it can be used again and again by others all over the world?
This was the concept behind twelvebaskets.co.uk - a creative resource site full of photographs, illustrations, stories, scripts, songs, paintings and prayers, everything you need for a sermon, assembly, presentation or many other uses. It's aimed at web designers, leaders of worship and preachers.
The process is simple, if something is 100% your own work you can upload it to the site. Images and written work can be downloaded by members (for an annual subscription) and other digital content such as video, animations and powerpoint can be purchased by anybody (priced individually). The contributor of the work gains a royalty every time it is downloaded, as well as the knowledge that their creation is being enjoyed again rather than buried on their hard drive.
Twelvebaskets is a resource-sharing site, whose initial setup was funded by the Methodist church
Did you realise that there are many leading scientists who have a living Christian faith?
Among the groups which study the problems of humanity every bit as seriously as those who claim to have all knowledge as long as you don't bring God into it, are
the
SCIENCE and RELIGION FORUM
and
CHRISTIANS in SCIENCE
CHRISTIANS IN SCIENCE now has a Bristol Group
meetings will be included in our Diary
CHRISTIANS who are TEACHERS can find much valuable resource material from the Science and Religion in Schools Project. The website is at
WESLEY COLLEGE in Westbury-on-Trym is itself a Resource which can help anyone in the Circuit
On their website you can learn about The Bookshop and Resource Centre
Wesley College also has an extensive Library, Special Collections and Archives
Access to the Archives for research purposes can be arranged through the Librarian
email: librarian@wesley-college-bristol.ac.uk
It would be good if members of the Circuits tell us their favourite RESOURCES via our Contact Form
If you wish to trace History there are resources in Bristol itself, including stories of the non-conformist past at the Kingswood Heritage Museum
If you wish to know more about the Methodist Church itself, the complete Dictionary of Methodism is on-line here
One of the sources of graphics we use is CHRISTIAN COMPUTER ART.
You can see their website -with some FREE art as well as others which ask a very moderate subscription, if you click on their logo here