UPPERMILL METHODIST CHURCH
The Church in the Square at the Heart of the Community
OUR PROGRAMME
March - Dec 2024
Mar 7th Getting to Know You—Rev Sachin Awale
Mar 14th Our Medicine Chest - Jean Wales
Mar 21st A talk by Livi Michael our local award winning author.
Mar 28th Women of Holy Week
Apr 4th Games Afternoon
Apr 11th My Art Work— Phil Hughes
Apr 18th Celebrating Mountain Rescue’s 60th Anniversary
Apr 25th Mystery Tour
May 2nd Talk by Sharman Birtles - Vice Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester
May 9th Dorothy Emerson—Athletics Yesterday and Today.
May 16th Pentecost Craft
23rd May The Wesleys
May 30th Life in a Rural Pharmacy—Margaret Ulyatt
6th June Something Treasured
13th June Working for Action Together Oldham—Lucy Clarke
20th June Games Afternoon
27th June Strawberry Tea in memory of Jean Stanton
A Scarf for Lewy
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In Autumn 2022 members of Thursday Friends organised the church's response to this project organised by the Lewy Body Society to raise awareness of Lewy Body Dementia. Our 55metre long 'scarf' was joined to many others to make a scarf which was wrapped around the Royal Albert Hall five times. An event which drew a lot of attention and made many more people aware of the disease.
This passage found, on the web, by one of our members several years ago summarises very well the the feelings of members of the group.
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HEARTFELT FRIENDS
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How generous God is that he has given me these few and special friends who are true friends of the heart.
How he must love me that he has let us find each other upon this crowded earth. We are drawn to each other as if by some mystical force. We recognise each other at once. We are sisters of the spirit who understand each other instinctively.
There is no blood between us, no common family history. Yet there are no barriers of background, or even age. Older, younger, richer, poorer - no matter. We speak the same language, we have come together in a special moment in time, and the sense of union we feel will last through eternity.
Earlier this summer members of Thursday Friends enjoyed Afternoon Tea in the garden at the Manse
The latest display prepared by members of Thursday Friends for the Coffee Lounge