Bishop’s Stortford Methodist Circuit
Beds, Essex and Herts
District 34/18
The Bishop’s Stortford Methodist Circuit is
made up of one town centre church and three village churches. It is geographically
spread along a north-south line straddling the Essex and Hertfordshire border,
with Saffron Walden being the main church to the North and Bishop’s Stortford
the main church to the south. The churches are served by one full-time
Methodist minister and one full-time and one part-time URC minister, both of
whom also have responsibility for other URC churches in the area. Many of the
churches have strong ecumenical links, and two of the churches are in Local
Ecumenical Partnerships; one with the URC, and one with the URC and Anglican
churches. Saffron Walden Methodist Church closed on Palm Sunday 2014, but many
of its congregation are now worshipping at Abbey Lane URC in Saffron Walden. A
Declaration of Ecumenical Welcome between Abbey Lane URC and Saffron Walden
Methodist Church was signed on Easter Day at Abbey Lane. For more information
about Abbey Lane URC please click on the website link below. Worship is also led by one supernumerary
minister and our team of nine local preachers and eight worship leaders. The
churches have varying styles of worship from the traditional to the informal,
and an evening circuit café worship service is held every quarter.
Two of our churches have their own
websites (clicking on the links below
will take you away from this site)
Bishops’ Stortford Methodist Church Stansted Free Church (LEP)
Our other churches have web pages on
this site:
Braughing Methodist Church
Clavering
(LEP)
The current Preaching plan (after viewing close window to return to this page)
External Links: Abbey Lane URC Saffron Walden The Methodist Church Beds, Essex and Herts District
Updated May 2017