Bishop Auckland Methodist Church

Cockton Hill Road (opposite the General Hospital), Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, DL14 6EN

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SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES
10.30am Morning Worship with Young Church and Creche
6.00pm Evening Worship

Weekday Service
Thursday 9.30am A Short Service of Holy Communion


CHURCH CALENDAR*
'Meeting Point': Alternate Wednesday evenings at 7.15, for 7.30pm (usually a Speaker, questions and discussion)

Outreach Activities
(a) 'Open House': The Church premises are open to any caller for any reason, and staffed by Church members, weekdays, 10.00am 'til 12 noon and 2.00pm 'til 4.00pm.
(b) A Singing Group visits South Church Nursing Home and Barrington Lodge Nursing Home on either a Tuesday or Thursday, once a month, 2.00pm 'til 3.00pm
(c) Sundaynight@: Circuit Youth Worship, 1st Sunday in the month at 7.30pm. This group moves around local Methodist Churches and is open to all denominations.

Women's Meetings
(a) 'Women's Own': Alternate Monday afternoons at 2.00pm
(b) 'Homemakers': Alternate Wednesday afternoons at 2.00pm
(c) 'Ladies' Circle': Alternate Thursday evenings at 7.30pm

Men's Meeting
'Men Alive': Second Friday of the month at 7.30pm

Social Activities
(a) 'Homemakers' Keep Fit': every Monday evening at 7.30pm (open to anyone)
(b) Senior Luncheon Club: Third Wednesday each month (except August), at 2.15pm
(c) Light Lunches: First Tuesday of the month (with some exceptions)

* Complete details cannot be listed here. Please contact the Church direct for more precise dates on all of the above activities and for any further details.

HISTORY
A Primitive Methodist Church in the 'grand manner' was first built on this site in 1903. The town's Wesleyan Methodist Church in the meantime, moved from its original chapel, building a fine new sanctuary in Newgate Street in 1914. These two Church societies came together in 1993, as 'Bishop Auckland Methodist Church', concentrating their worship, service and witness at Cockton Hill, extending and modernising the original premises to meet the needs of the present age. Meanwhile, the premises in Newgate Street, were taken over by a voluntary charitable organisation, 'Bishop Auckland Community Partnership', and the Newgate Street Church was redeveloped to become a 'one-stop help centre', now known as the Four Clocks Centre, the home of a number of charitable and caring organisations working in the town.

MISSION STATEMENT
Worshipping
Witnessing
Serving

CONTACT NAME, ADDRESS AND NUMBER
Revd Keith Phipps
23, Cockton Hill Road
Bishop Auckland
Co. Durham
DL14 6EN

Tel: 01388 603142
Email: angel@islington777.demon.co.uk