What’s on now! Services and Events
Read on to discover the services and events we have taking place in Durham City East Methodists at our churches in Carrville, Pittington and Bowburn. A coffee morning takes place before the Bowburn and Pittington services, and refreshments are available the Carrville services – all are welcome to join us for refreshments and/or the services. You can see information about services taking place at other churches in the Durham and Deerness Methodist Circuit on the circuit web site. Scroll down the page to see details of our regular weekly and monthly activities.
Advent Studies
Come and join us for this year’s Advent Study. We are following ‘The Women of the Nativity” by Paula Gooder – an Advent and Christmas journey looking at well-known and well-loved stories of the Bible from the perspective of the women who observed these world-changing events. The dates for the remaining studies which are all on Wednesday afternoons (2pm) are:
- 10th December (Pittington)
- 17th December (Carrville)
Sunday 30th November
10.30am (Carrville) – Rev. Joanne Thorns leads our service.
Tuesday 2nd December
9.30am (Carrville) – Ms Soo Illingworth leads our informal worship.
10.15am (Pittington) – Rev. Les Nevin will lead this communion service.
Thursday 4th December
11.15am (Bowburn) – Rev. Paul Beetham leads this communion service.
Sunday 7th December
10.30am (Carrville) – Rev. Fiona Weir or Rev. John Squares leads our communion service.
Tuesday 9th December
9.30am (Carrville) – Rev. Fiona Weir or Rev. Les Nevin leads our informal worship.
10.15am (Pittington) – Pauline Cresswell will lead this service.
Thursday 11th December
11.15am (Bowburn) – Mr Bill Offler leads this service.
Saturday 13th December
2.30-4.30pm (Carrville) – Belmont Ladies Choir Christmas Concert – Tickets are £5 including light refreshments. Donations from the concert will go to the charity ‘Daft as a Brush’
Sunday 14th December
10.30am (Carrville) – Rev. Fiona Weir or Rev. Les Nevin leads our scratch nativity service.
Tuesday 16th December
9.30am (Carrville) – Mrs Anne Offler leads our informal worship.
10.15am (Pittington) – Rev. John Jebaseelan will lead this service.
Thursday 18th December
11.15am (Bowburn) – Professor Mark Wilson leads this service.
Sunday 21st December
10.30am (Carrville) – Mr Bill Offler leads our service.
6.00pm (Carrville) – Rev. John Squares will lead our annual carol service.
Tuesday 23rd December
10.15am (Pittington) – Rev. Fiona Weir or Rev. Les Nevin will lead this service.
Christmas Eve – Wednesday 24th December
4.30pm (Carrville) – Rev. Fiona Weir leads our communion service.
Christmas Day – 25th December
10.30am (Carrville) – Rev. Fiona Weir leads our nativity service.
Sunday 28th December
10.30am (Carrville) – Mrs Anne Offler leads our service.
Tuesday 30thDecember
10.15am (Pittington) – Ms Soo Illingworth will lead this service.
Other regular activities
Monday
- 8.00pm – Faith & Friendship meets on Monday evenings either online or in person for discussion and fellowship. Contact Suzie for meeting dates and venue.
- 5.30pm – Brownies at Carrville for girls aged 7-10 which enabled girls to work for interest badges developing a wide range of useful skills.
Wednesday
- 10.00am – Weekly prayer meeting – Join us for half an hour for the Durham City East Methodists’ online prayer meeting on Zoom. Contact Linda if you’d like the link to join us. Feel free to come along with your morning cuppa!
- 2.00pm – Monthly Bible Study – On the first Wednesday of each month we meet at Carrville for our monthly bible study. As we read, pray and talk together, hopefully the familiar and not so familiar stories will come alive in new and unexpected ways. Refreshments are provided. In October, November and December we will be using a resource written by Paula Gooder entitled “Woman of the Nativity” which is described as an Advent and Christmas journey in nine stories looking at Christmas from the perspective of women we read about in the Bible.
Thursday
- 10.00-11.00am – Bowburn Weekly Coffee morning followed by Worship at 11.15am – you are welcome to join us for either or both events. This takes place in Bowburn Community Centre.
- 10.00-11.30am (term time) – Pram Club meets during school term time at Carrville – please contact Joanne (07979 764009) if you have any questions.
Friday
- 6.00pm – Rainbows at Carrville for girls aged 4-7 and provides a structured programme of fun activities.
Saturday
- 9.00-9.45am – Join us at Carrville for our monthly prayer breakfast on the 3rd Saturday in the month where we share in breakfast and explore different ways of praying.
- 10.00-11.30am – Monthly coffee morning on the 3rd Saturday in the month in the Carrville church hall. Contributions for the cake stall are greatly appreciated!
There are lots of opportunities for you to meet with us and other Christians. Please head over to our resources page to find out more.
Contact our minister
If you need pastoral support, please contact our minister Fiona by phone 07955 374680 or email theotherrevweir@gmail.com.
Prayer and worship
We encourage you to continue in worship and prayer in different ways, whether that be individually in your own homes or online. We have a wide selection of resources for prayer and worship in an online format, explore those you wish to get involved in. You may find one you want to use every week, or you may wish to join different services and communities each week.
