Thackley Methodist Church and Community Centre

Sorted continues to see growth amongst young people at Sorted, both numerically and also in faith. At the moment we have 50-60 young people who attend Friday night at Thackley. Of that 50, we have 20 in a small group discovering faith and taking part in discussions about faith. This last year we have had: 8 baptisms  5 confirmations  A new mums and toddlers group ( little thrivers)  Vulnerable young people attending summer camp - 40 of us went to Soul Survivor last summer Growth in our young adult work  Opportunity to share how Sorted is doing at Thackley with an invitation to preach on a Sunday morning service.  On behalf of all the young people, young adults, volunteers and staff at Sorted, Andy and I would like to express our gratitude and thanks to everyone at Thackley Methodist Church who allow us to walk alongside vulnerable young people giving them a sense of purpose and self worth. There is a cost to doing this kind of missional wo...

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Christmas collections; these have helped the following charities: Christmas Eve Service - Sorted - £117.42 Christmas Day service - Bradford Soup Run - £88.00 Christmas Card - Gambian Schools Trust - £85.20. Christingle Service - NCH - £120.60 Circuit Carol Service - Water Aid - £ 81.82 Additionally, collection boxes for the Children's Society were taken home by those attending the Christingle service. Don't forget that these are due by 14 January 2007. Also, at its meeting in December, the church council agreed a donation of £110 to each of the following: Methodist Auxiliary fund (assisting ill/disabled ministers etc) Methodist Property fund (assisting Methodist churches in emergencies, eg flooding etc) Methodist Church fund for World Mission - supporting communities around the world bringing hope and healing through our partner churches J O Y - Jubilee Outreach Yorkshire - support for Romania The Blenheim Project - s...

Today we were privileged to have our worship led by Andy Milne assisted by members of the Sorted youth church. Andy is a Church Army evangelist who works with young people in the Bradford area and one of the Sorted groups meets on our premises each Friday evening. Andy spoke of how God had planted in him a vision “for teenagers to experience God's love by being part of a Christian community that is totally relevant and real for their lives” and how he and his wife had trudged the streets of Idle and Thackley on wet Friday nights to meet, speak and, more importantly, to listen to young people to find out how they could take the gospel to them. From those small beginnings there are now a number of groups meeting throughout the week in response to the members’ demands for opportunities to discover a deeper relationship with God. Matty shared with us how he had found God and is now teaching others about Him in ways that are meaningful to them; we were warned that ear plugs are someti...

The Church Council were greatly encouraged by Sharon's letter with news from Sorted: "I thought I might take this opportunity to let you know how the "SORTED" project is progressing with help from our circuit. Andy's funding seems to be on a more secure footing now, but his latest brief was to create a YOUTH CONGREGATION and in order to work towards that, the format of the Friday night Youth Club has been changed. Youngsters now have a time in which they divide into small groups and receive leadership and Christian teaching from a number of teenagers who have been meeting with Andy from the beginning of the project. Each group has an adult to guide them and these leaders are now encouraging the regular attenders to be part of these groups and, on the whole, it's actually working. However, some are not so keen on the new format and the team are coming up against some challenging behaviour. One of the things which is encouraging them to persevere is Thackley...