Thackley Methodist Church and Community Centre

Along with celebrating Her Majesty’s special birthday recently, at Thackley Methodist Church (TMC) we have also been celebrating our Junior Church Anniversary – and working out that the Queen has being reigning for around half the lifetime of the church!  So what has the church been doing for all those years? Back in the day, besides being a big, busy church, it was the major social hub of the village, with all sorts of regular meetings and concerts – even spectacular productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, with magnificent costumes hired from D’Oyly Carte!  Also, did you know Thackley Football Club grew from small beginnings made by the church? Nowadays, besides hosting well attended special seasonal services, weddings, baptisms and funerals, TMC continues to serve the community by providing a safe, warm and welcoming community centre for a number of groups and organisations to call home. We happily share our premises on Friday evenings  with ‘Sorted’ youth churc

We are trialling a weekly coffee morning between 10 am and 12 noon each Saturday between now and September. We hold it in our lounge area which means you'll need to use the door into the community centre.  We hope you will join us.

After much planning, prayer and preparation, we held our Death Café on Saturday 14 May 2016. Whilst we cannot claim to have been inundated with visitors, we had some who had made the journey from Kirkstall and we know that we met the very real needs of some for whom bereavement is still very raw. The ‘ Grave talk’ cards we’d placed on the coffee tables prompted some great conversations and despite them focusing on various aspects of death, gentle laughter could be heard throughout the morning. Unbeknown to us at the time, it also provided an important time of preparation for the team which enabled them to support one of the team members who subsequently had to cope with a family death ... God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform! It was also good to see folk busy being creative with the craft activities, whilst engaging in meaningful conversation. Thanks also to Cornerstone Christian Books for providing a bookstall in a box. There were lessons we can lea