Apologies for the technical delay! The service is now available online.
Due to this delay, Rev’d John will do the service this evening at 6pm!
You are encourage to play the service starting at 6pm, but you can listen any time if it is not convenient. Please inform anyone you planned to phone up to listen in with you.
It can be found here:
The service booklet can also be found here:
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the service will be delayed. We are working hard to resolve these and hope to have it sorted to ready to start at 1pm.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Further updates will follow…………………….
There will be a variety of opportunities for you to join us for online worship from the Parish of #Meltham through Holy Week and leading up to Easter day. Again, you are encouraged to contact via telephone others from our congregations that don’t have modern gadgets or computers and let them join in the worship as you listen together (maybe do a trial run first using last weeks service – you may need to put the phone that you are ringing them with on loudspeaker, and placing near your sound source for best results). Many mobile phones allow you to merge a call with several people, which is a useful way to reach out to others (careful not use up all your inclusive minutes though if they are limited). Maybe think about sharing the links with friends and family who wouldn’t normally come to a service?
Please find below current planned upcoming services (note these may be subject to change).
Sunday 5th April (Palm Sunday)
10:30am – HOLY COMMUNION (Online via YouTube / Parish website)
(Link will be released separately beforehand)
11:15am – SERVICE OF THE WORD (Online via Zoom – details below)
4:00pm – Olivet to Calvary (with interactive images) – sung by St Bartholomew’s Choir (Online via YouTube / Parish Website)
Tuesday 7th April
7:00pm – Taize Service (Online via Zoom – details to follow)
Thursday 9th April (Maundy Thursday)
7:00pm – Holy Communion (Online via YouTube / Parish website)
Friday 10th April (Good Friday)
2:00pm – An hour at the Cross – Reflections and music (Online via YouTube / Parish website)
7:30pm – Stainer’s Crucifixion (with interactive images) – sung by St Bartholomew’s Choir (Online via YouTube / Parish website)
Sunday 12th April (Easter Day)
10:30am – SUNG EUCHARIST (Online via YouTube / Parish website)
11:15am – HOLY COMMUNION (Online via Zoom – details to follow)
Links will be sent out before each individual service.
Details for Service of the Word – Sunday 5th April from 11:15am
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/173033495?pwd=YzMvTjRrN0M2SmptTFdoZkd1M0Z1UT09
Meeting ID: 173 033 495
Password: 034024
The meeting will be open for joining from 11:00am before the service commences at 11:15am. Please arrive in time so the service can start promptly on time. Remember, other participants can see you just as you can see them. If you do/don’t want to be seen by the other participants, make sure you set the Video icon to Start or Stop as required. This is a live service. You may be required to register with Zoom beforehand, and enter your personal email address (even though it says work). You will then be given the option to download the Zoom application.
The eagerly anticipated April edition of the #Meltham Parish magazine is now available for viewing online here:
Due to the COVID-19 virus situation we are unable to get this edition in hard copy so please feel free to share/forward this around to those who (under the current circumstances) may not receive this. However, if anyone does require this magazine in a hard copy, please send an email with the postal address to melthamparishmagazine@gmail.com and we will try and get a copy to you as soon as we can. Similarly, people can be added to the distribution list by signing up for email alerts from the Parish website or liking the Parish page on facebook to receive notifications.
Stay safe everyone!
Though our church buildings are currently closed, the Parish of #Meltham certainly is not – online services are taking place! Whilst the restrictions are in place, we are experimenting with different methods of worship and learning what works well, and what not so, whilst also being mindful of what platforms we can use to enable a wide audience of people to join in – some who have no on-line tech at all, and those who do have tech limits like for example, limited bandwidth.
Tonight at 6pm, a live ZOOM service will take place led by Jacqueline France and others from the team at St Mary’s Wilshaw. You are invited to join the service using the link here:
Topic: Evening service – God of hope.
Time: Mar 29, 2020 06:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/644597022
Meeting ID: 644 597 022
If you already have ZOOM installed you will go straight to the meeting when you click on the link. If you join before the host you will be asked to wait until the host joins.
If you do not have ZOOM installed (i.e. this is the first time you have done this) you will be prompted to install ZOOM when you click on the link. Once installed you will automatically join the service.
If you haven’t already got ZOOM installed on your device, please try to join a bit earlier to give yourself chance to get the app installed. Instructions can be found here:
We look forward to seeing you all this evening.
You can hear Rev’d John’s offer his thoughts for Passion Sunday here. It is taken from the #Meltham Parish Communion Service which was put together for Sunday 29th March.
The whole service can be viewed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIL2rcR_kGk&t=233s
PARISH OF #MELTHAM, WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN: SUNDAY 29th MARCH
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” (John 11:1-45)
The natural focus of todays Gospel reading is Lazarus, his death, and Jesus’s ability to bring him back to life. However, our focus should always be on Jesus, on what he is doing and saying, and on trying to sense his nature which is the nature of our God.
Throughout this story Jesus’s focus is on people. His nature is to care for people. Not just for the “big things” but for whatever is important to the individual person. Jesus weeps not for Lazarus but for Mary, he sees her crying and feels her pain deep within his spirit.
Our God sees all the worries of the world and cares for the whole of his creation. It is right that we continue to pray for the problems of the world, but we should never forget that our Father in heaven is passionately interested in every detail of our lives.
You are his dearly loved child and he is deeply interested in anything that is concerning you, big or small.
Reverend John (Vicar)
Following recent guidelines from the Church of England and the government.
All churches will be closed for public worship until further notice.
This now includes private prayer and funerals.
Funerals can still be held at the crematorium and at the grave side with a maximum of ten mourners.
All weddings are postponed until further notice.
Website
Our Parish Communion will be posted on our website www.melthamparish.co.uk this will be pre-recorded but Rev John will be repeating the service at 10:30am so that it may be considered spiritually live. Please join in if your are able, or it will be available for retrospective viewing.
You are also invited to join a live evening service at 6pm through ZOOM led by Jacquline from Wilshaw. Details of this will be published on the website beforehand.
All social events and gatherings have been cancelled.
Good Morning! Here are details of how we can ‘join’ together for worship in #Meltham and beyond. Rev’d John has pre-recorded this Communion Service and encourages us to join him and others by starting to play at 10:30am (though you can view this at anytime!).
The link is via YouTube. Please note that although it is a video, it is actually just audio only, to allow you to also follow the service words in the attached PDF file.
IMPORTANT! – it’s recommended you view this whilst connected to WI-FI rather than using mobile data, but that’s up to you. We also recommend that once the video starts playing, click on settings and change the Quality to the lowest possible (144), so as to use the least amount of data and bandwidth (important if you have data limits!).
As previously mentioned, you may want to try and include those you know who don’t have an online capability by phoning them or vice versa whilst you are listening. For best results, call using a mobile phone and put it on loudspeaker near to the source of your sound (i.e. computer speaker). This may have limited success but worth a try! Again exercise caution if you have limited minutes on your call plan. The service is just over 45 minutes long.
WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT, WE ARE ONE IN THE LORD!
Parish Communion YouTube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIL2rcR_kGk
As tomorrow is the 5th Sunday, we would normally be meeting together for worship at our #Meltham Joint Parish Communion at Helme Church. Due to the circumstances we are unable to do this, but we can still meet together in heart and mind and worship together online.
Rev’d John has put together a service for us to join in together at 10:30am on Sunday 29th March. This will be in audio form to try and make it accessible to as many people as possible, but without needing too much BANDWIDTH (you’ll hear more about that in the talk!).
Links will be posted later, but you may want to think about how we can include those who don’t have any on-line capability (of which there are many in our Parish). You might be able to arrange to phone them up and let them listen to it with join in the worship with you – just an idea. If you do this, you might want to do a test run beforehand by playing some music down the phone!
The aim is for us all to play the service starting at 10:30am tomorrow (don’t forget to change your clocks, so you’re not late!!)
There will also be an opportunity to join an online service tomorrow evening at 6pm using Zoom! This will be led by the Wilshaw team. More details of how to join this will also follow.
The Church of England are encouraging us as Christians to take time out each day to pray. You can find more information here:
https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer
In #Meltham, people are being encouraged to join this too……….
Thanks to everyone who continues to commit to prayer together at 11am. We know everyone cannot commit to this time, but may find these prayers helpful at whatever time prayer can take place. Prayer can be hard work but as Christians this is what we are called to and is something we can do at this difficult time.
We hope to issue prayer list each Monday – if you need to know anything contact Rev’d Peter Rolls:
p.c.rolls@hotmail.com 01484 340342
PRAYERS
Give thanks for how our local community has risen to this new challenge we are all faced with. Help them and strengthen them to continue to work together for this community.
We also ask that you give wisdom and plain common sense to all those amongst us who do not seem to want to heed the advice we are given.
Lord God of all Wisdom, we pray for our leaders: the World Health Organisation, national governments, and local leaders – those working in schools, hospitals, the food industry and other institutions.
We ask you to grant them wisdom beyond their own wisdom to contain this virus, faith beyond their own faith to fight fear, and strength beyond their own strength to sustain vital institutions through this time of turmoil.
Lord of all Peace, we remember those living in coronavirus hotspots and those currently in isolation. May they know your presence in their isolation, your peace in their turmoil and your patience in their waiting.
Lord God of all Comfort and Counsel, we pray for those who are grieving, reeling from the sudden loss of loved ones. May they know your presence with them.
Lord God who heals, we pray for all medical professionals dealing daily with the intense pressures of this crisis. Grant them resilience in weariness, discernment in diagnosis, and compassion upon compassion as they care. We thank you for the army of researchers working steadily and quietly towards a cure – give them clarity in their research and an unexpected breakthrough.
We ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen
Bible Reference – Jeremiah 32.17
“Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.” (Jeremiah 32:17 )
