Getting the Big Picture
A Circuit wide Bible Study Course
Having renewed our Covenant vows at the start of the New Year, the opportunity of taking part in an Island-wide Bible course was perhaps to be, and indeed has been, welcomed at St. Martin and two other centres around the Island, offering four different times and venues to the hundred or so members of the Jersey Circuit interested in deepening their understanding of the Bible, over seven well planned sessions.
At St. Martin, some 37 folk from various island churches have met each Tuesday at 7.30 pm to explore the good book. The evening is divided into two twenty minute sessions of video presentation from the Rev. Andrew Ollerton, a young minister and lecturer from the Free Methodist Church, who wears his undoubted scholarship lightly and aims to give us the ‘big picture’, a kind of ‘mountain-top view’ of the Bible. Punctuating these are opportunities to share in often animated and good humoured discussion with six or seven fellow participants round a table and over a cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.
This enjoyable and thought provoking study will culminate at the end of February with the visit of our President of the Methodist Conference, (a sort of archbishop of Methodism, elected for one year, if you like; not altogether an accurate description!) This year he is the Rev. Steve Wild who will lead worship at a united service at St Helier Methodist Centre on Sunday 28th February.