About Us

A LETTER FROM OUR MINISTER

Dear reader,

Hopefully, by now, you have browsed through our website, and hopefully it has helped to paint in your mind a good and accurate picture of Messingham Methodist Church.

You will, I’m sure, have gathered that we are an active, enthusiastic and friendly family, for whom music is just one of the many things that play an important role in the life of our church.

This leads me to call to mind a song, written by Dave Richards, whose lyrics plead….‘Build your Church, Lord, make us strong……make us one…….’
Of course, by ‘church’ we do not simply mean our building, by ‘strong’ we do not only refer to the bricks and mortar that keep it standing, and by ‘one’ we do not merely speak of it’s interior that we strive to ensure is available and accessible to all.

Yes, we do know and acknowledge that these are always areas of concern, and we do attend to and address issues as they arise, but, as important as they are, we are ultimately a body of people who are responding to the call of God, that we should be, for Him, a ‘people of power and praise’.

It is then, with these words singing in my head and heart that I encourage you to read all that is encompassed within the life of our church, praising God for the love, talent and commitment of all those who work for the Kingdom in such varied and essential ways. It is as a result of all the love, talent and commitment of so many people that we continue to be a ‘people of praise’ rather than a dead or dying fossil.

Maybe, if you are ever in the Messingham area, you will call in and make yourself known to us, that we may not merely address you as reader, but call and know you as friend.

Until then, by the grace of God we continue to be a ‘people of praise’, trusting in God alone for the power to ‘glorify his precious name’ in our village and ‘through this land’. May He be the power in your life also, and may your response to Him be a heartfelt one of praise, in and through the love and power of His Son, Jesus Christ.

  Yours, in Christ,

   Rev. Lyn Gregg