A huge thank you to Jayne and Wendy for yesterday’s Brunch. It was a very successful event.

We are changing the name of of Wednesday Warm Space to Wednesday Drop in but we will still offer the same activities and refreshments.  The drop in also includes “Talking Point“, a place to get friendly face-to-face support and guidance.

If you can volunteer an hour of your time to assist then please see Wendy or Margaret.

We do amazing work in the community but then we tend to just move onto the next thing that needs our help.

To help us to apply for community grants to continue our work we need to document what we have done, preferably over the last 10 years.

Please get your thinking caps on and help us produce a list of all the community work and feedback we have had over the last 10 years.  This can be anything from visiting people, cutting the grass, litter picks, talking to people in the street, handing out free food and drink, food banks, Room at the Inn, knitting or making something.  Perhaps someone has just said thank you to us for doing something. Our list does go on and on…. but please note we need community based topics and not faith based.

If you can think of anything then please write it down and pin in to the board in our hall.. or let a steward know, or e-mail us.

If you have any questions then please don’t hesitate to ask either Wendy, Iain or Linda.

We are hosting a Flower Festival on June 10th between 10am and 3pm.
There will be Flowers and Music.
Entry is free but there will be a small charge for refreshments of Cake and drinks.  Did I say cake?  Mmmmm

Saturday 3rd June – take a break from your cleaning or shopping and join us for Brunch in the lounge 11 – 1pm. Full breakfast including tea or coffee, bacon or sausage sandwich, bacon or egg on toast or toast and jam.
Hot or cold drinks.

If you can’t afford these prices then please don’t let this stop you attending. We will provide food for all.

There is some confusion over road closures this weekend with mixed messages from road signs, newspapers and local government sources.
If your driving to church this Sunday then it looks like Kingsway South onto Knutsford Road and then hook right around The Cheshire Cheese route should be open.

We are hosting a Flower Festival on June 10th between 10am and 3pm.
There will be Flowers and Music.
Entry is free but there will be a small charge for refreshments of Cake and drinks.  Did I say cake?  Mmmmm

Further details soon.

If you could please spare an hour on a Wednesday to assist then it would be really appreciated. Please see Margaret or the sign in sheet in the hall.

A huge thank you to our volunteers from Latchford Methodist Church and New Song Church who had a lovely morning giving out Hot Cross Buns and Small chocolate Eggs around the village yesterday. New song had music and children’s crafts in front of the church and anyone passing was welcomed inside.

We would like to say a huge thank to the co-op for their support.

The Easter Egg hunt results will be announced later today but we would like to take moment now to thank all the local shops for supporting the Egg Hunt.

Keep your eyes open as I hope to have some photos of this event to share later today.

Congratulations to Stacy who won yesterday’s hamper draw with lucky ticket number 13.

For anyone without access to facebook or youtube a copy of our Easter Sunday 9th April service is now available on our website under “Recordings of our Services“ to listen or download.

The website allows you to download the recordings for later playback on your personal devices. Why not listen again in the car, garden, whilst walking or exercising?

Next Saturday (8th April) we will be distributing Hot Cross Buns in the village. Please meet up in the hall at 10am if you are available to help please.

About Easter Offering

Each year, the Methodist Church holds an Easter Offering dedication service. This tradition dates back to 1883, when women in Manchester collected £32 for missionary work overseas from ‘Christmas pennies’ at family gatherings on Christmas Day. In March 1884, the London Districts distributed Easter envelopes and collecting bags asking for a penny a head, and collected around £100. In 1900, Women’s Work raised £1,655 for the work of overseas missions.

In 2019, collections from Easter Offering services raised over £370,000, thanks to the generosity of Methodists.

All the money raised through the Easter Offering goes to the World Mission Fund of the Methodist Church in Great Britain for work overseas and within the UK including  student ministry training.

The church warm space work will continue through April.  If you could please spare an hour on a Wednesday to assist then it would be really appreciated. Please see Margaret.

An early reminder that the clocks go forward one hour next Sunday 26th March.

Please don’t oversleep and miss next weeks Service.

This years Christian Stewardship envelopes are ready for collection.

This envelopes allows the church to reclaim partial tax on  offertory donations made by tax payers.

If you would like to participate and are a tax payer then people see George.

A huge thank you for everyone involved in yesterdays Murder Mystery Evening and especially Jayne, Wendy, Eric, Ben and Adam. It was a great evening and everyone had a wonderful time.

Murder Mystery Evening on March 18th; A joint event with New Song.

Tickets are £10 each and include a 3 course meal.

We are desperate for help warm space on a Wednesday. Even 30 minutes or an hour would be really appreciated.

If you can assist then please see Margaret.

We have bought a portable hearing loop for use by anyone with the hearing aid “T” setting for use in our smaller meeting rooms.

Please contact a steward if you wish to use it.

Don’t forget our Christian book lending library can be found near the entrance door between the church and the hall.
It’s well worth a read

Monday 27 February and the following 4 Mondays (6, 13, 20, 27 March) 2.00 – approx 3.30pm in the lounge at LMC.
We will be using the study guide: “Exploring God’s Mercy” by Bishop Steven Croft

All welcome to this friendly group. There is no commitment to come every week, just as and when you can.
For further details use the ‘leave a reply’ button below.

Linda will be holding a Lent Study starting Ash Wednesday 22nd Feb in the evenings for those who can attend the daytime meetings.
More details coming soon.

Kit will be holding a Lent Study starting Monday 20th Feb, 2pm until 3.30pm.
More details coming soon.

A huge thank you to Jayne, Wendy, Steve and anyone else involved with the brunch. There was a fantastic buzz and fellowship with lots of new faces joining in for their first time. We raised £190

Saturday 4th Feb – take a break from your cleaning or shopping and join us for Brunch in the lounge 11 – 1pm. Full breakfast including tea or coffee £6.00, bacon or sausage sandwich £2.00, bacon or egg on toast £2.50, toast and jam £1.00. Hot or cold drinks £1.00.

If you can’t afford these prices then please don’t let this stop you attending. We will provide food for all.

There are a few spaces left on our flower list. If anyone wishes to donate flowers for a particular weekend then the list can be found on the pulpit table.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped with the spring clean yesterday.  You managed to fill up a skip and freed up much needed space in the church.

We need one more door steward.
Door Stewards are there to offer a warm welcome and offer assistance into the church for anyone who needs help.
They also help in the event of an emergency or evacuation.
If you are able to spare a little time once a month to assist on the door then please contact Julian.

If you can spare some time next Saturday at 10.30am then it would be really appreciated.
We are getting a skip and having a big clear out / spring clean and your help would be really appreciated.

We would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who helped or attended what was a busy and well received Saturday Morning.

Under torturous underfoot icy conditions brave volunteers handed out 200 mince pies, generously donated by Latchford Co-Op.

Over 70 Christmas Angles, knitted by volunteers throughout this year, where shared around the village or left in strategic places for people to find and take home.

The morning was wrapped up by a good and enjoyable carol singing in the village Centre.

The Latchford postal elves have announced the last date for posting cards is this Friday 16th.

Christmas cards will be available for collection on Sunday 18th.

Please clearly mark your Christmas cards with the recipients full name to make it easier for the elves to sort.

Yesterday’s Christmas Brunch and stalls was very successful with over £300 raised. A big thank  you to everyone who helped and attended.

The flower list for next year is now available and can be found on the pulpit table.

There is a coffee morning on Tuesday 22nd at Epson Gardens in Appleton between 10.30 and 12. Come along and sing your favorite Christmas Carols.

Donations are in aid of Room in the Inn.
See Barb for further details.

The Elves have been hard at work and installed a Christmas card post box near the font within church. Please clearly mark your Christmas cards with the recipients full name to make it easier for the elves to sort.

Keith from Lyons court has sent us a wonderful thank you card. He wanted to thank everyone for all the effort that went into the hamper he won. Keith attended a recent event and was surprised at the friendliness he received from everyone within the church.

He isn’t very well at the moment and so please pray for him.

50 Refugee families have moved into the Fur Grove Hotel and help is needed with many different events but especially English lessons. Please see Julian for further information

On Christmas Eve New Song will be distributing Hot Drinks at Christmas Eve Hot Drinks at Walton Crem and Fox Covert from 10am until 3pm. See Kit if you can assist.

On Saturday 17th December we will be Carol Singing and handing out Christmas Angels and Mince pies in Latchford village.

Come and sing with us please. We meet at Church at 10am to prepare and then head into the village at 10.30am

On Saturday 10th December we will be hosting our Christmas Bunch starting at 11.30am

There will be coffee and mince pies as well as stalls to browse including a cake stall and a craft stall. There will be a gift wrapping service and a children’s craft corner.

Why not come along and have a browse over a hot drink and a mince pie?

On Sunday 11th December we are collecting NEW toys, unwrapped please, for families who are really struggling over Christmas.

Please place them under our tree for later collection.

We are offering a warm space to anyone in the community who is struggling to keep warm starting this week on Wednesday 7th December between 11am and 2pm until January or longer if its needed.

There will be lots going on including:

• Soup
• Hot Drinks
• Games
• Chat
• Chill out space

Please pass this on and share with anyone in need.

Anyone willing to assist with serving, cleaning,  chatting or praying for the initiative then that would be really appreciated. Please see Margret F or Wendy T for further details.

A prayer a day from Dec 1st until Jan 1st is available within a prayer booklet produced by Rev Linda. Please collect a copy from within the Church for use as a resource over the Christmas period.

There is a New song cafe today between 7pm and 9pm

A huge thank you to everyone who attended or helped with yesterdays Christmas dinner.  We raised over £300.

Photographs of the meal can be found in our Church Gallery on our website by clicking here

Warm space initiative starts on Wednesday 7th December. More details soon.

Sunday Services will now start at the earlier time of 10.30am to align ourselves with the other churches within the circuit.

If you have any empty cake tins / Celebration Tins / Quality Street tins etc then could you please donate them to Rita.

Please see Rita for further information. Thank you.

Monday afternoons 28^th November to 19^th December

Advent fellowship group using the theme ‘there is room’

2pm in the lounge all welcome

Today our church is 128 years young!
H a p p y  B i r t h d a y  L a t c h f o r d  M e t h o d i s t  C h u r c h 

Just a reminder that next Sunday 16th Service starts 15 minutes earlier at 10.30 as we have the honor to stream our service to the circuit.

It’s harvest festival in two weeks. If you will be staying after the service for the faith lunch then please add your name to the list so we can get an idea of the numbers to cater for.

Don’t forget our Christian book lending library can be found near the entrance door between the church and the hall.
It’s well worth a read

A big thank you to everyone who attended or helped at our first coffee morning of this new season with a special thank you to Jane.

An early reminder that on Sunday 16th October (in 2 weeks) our service will start at the earlier time of 10.30am.

This is because we have been honoured to be added to a rota of six (?) churches that livestream services to the whole of the Sankey Valley Circuit and most churches start their service at 10.30am.

Coffee morning  this Saturday 1st October from 10.30am until 12 in the lounge.
Hope to see you there.

As our  church building was closed this morning due to road closures for the Warrington run our members of the church supported the running event by having a table and handing out water and sweets to runners. Well done to all who took part.

Road closures for the Warrington Fun run will prevent access to our church on Sunday 25th and therefore we will NOT be holding a service within the building or on our facebook or youtube page.

Instead, Rev Linda will hold an online service on the Warrington Methodist Facebook page.  You will need to preregister for access to this site of you don’t already have access.

A copy of this service will be viewable on our website later on Sunday.

We will be handing out water etc to the spectators and runners from our Car Park in the morning and we would welcome volunteers to assist providing you can walk to and from the church.

Our Harvest Festival service on October 23rd will be in support of the Food Bank.

Followed by Faith Lunch and auction of fresh produce brought to the Harvest festival service.

Items needed by the Food Bank include:

Cereal, Sugar, Tinned Meat, Jelly, Custard, Sponge pudding, Soup, UHT Milk, Biscuits, Pot Noodles, Carnation cream, tinned fruit, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cordial, all toiletries please.

September 25th Sunday Worship Service will be online only. This is due to the fun run road closures outside our church making attendance difficult.

We will set up a table in our car park and hand out free water to runners and spectators. If you would like to volunteer to help out with this then please contact a Church Steward.

The Advent group will meet for 4 weekly sessions from On Monday 28 November and then on Monday 5th, 12th and 19th December. All are welcome.

We received notification that our defibrillator was called upon last week. It was deployed but ultimately not required.

Patient confidentially prevents us from learning any details.

This is the second time our defibrillator has been deployed within the last 9 months and so we must have it in a good location.

The defibrillator is back in service and ready for it’s next call.

We understand that Barbara Cubly funeral will be in Blackpool. We can send cards – Please contact a steward for the address.

A Very Happy Birthday Blessing for Derek and for Margaret

Congratulations to Ken for winning the MHA quiz