Registration is required to attend Aldersgate Celebration (Sat 20 May) as dinner will be provided.

No registration is required to attend Lectures 1 and 2 (Tue 23 and Wed 24 May).  Livestream of the lectures will be screened from TPMC from 8pm @ MCS YouTube.

Aldersgate Celebration on 20 May draws us to worship God together as a Methodist family and to consider what it means to Love God by Loving Our Religious Neighbour. The lectures on 23 and 24 May are themed Star Wars, Star Trek & Exoplanets: The Search for God in a Universe of Aliens. Please check out the ‘Programme’ for more information.

General notes:

• Lectures will be delivered in person and online via YouTube livestream;
• Lectures are conducted in English;
• Aldersgate Celebration is for in-person attendance only, so please register before coming as dinner will be provided.

Of course, and we would encourage you to do so. Our Methodist heritage is founded entirely on the teaching of the Bible, with emphasis on discipleship, social justice and outreach. These are values which we believe transcend denominational lines. We would welcome all visitors and newcomers.

Aldersgate refers to the name of the street in London where the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, had in the evening of 24 May 1738 “very unwillingly” visited a society where “one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans.” Wesley wrote in his journal that “while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.”

This work of the Holy Spirit marked a life-changing moment for Wesley, renewing his vigour in ministry, and it led to a bold step that he took the following year. On 2 April 1739, he began to preach in the open air – a courageous move at the time, and it launched the movement that became the world-wide Methodist church as we know it today.