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Matlock Methodist & United Reformed Church, also known within the community as Bank Road Church, is a wonderful building with access for all and modern facilities and is located on the hillside above Matlock Town centre in the Peak District of Derbyshire. As well as the worship services each week, the Church has a wide variety of groups and activities that meet and provide fellowship and fun for all ages including community groups that regularly use the premises. This Church is constantly looking to ways of working in the community and reaching out to those in need both locally and further a field with more than just donations. We have committed to supporting Fairtrade products and the Make Poverty History campaign. Everyone is welcome to come to this Church and it is prayed that they will find rest, refreshment and peace in a caring, praying community and our LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Message From Our Minister
Dear Readers, Nostalgia and 'retro' is all quite fashionable at the moment. Remember the 'good old days' when unemployment was down, house prices were up and there was plenty to go around for the reasonably well-off people in this country? Now the bubble has burst, the media remind us of the mistakes we (collectively - apparently!) have made in the past and we are left looking for the 'feel-good factor'! Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor are 2 such TV programmes which, I'm assured, can generate such feelings, and since I like being up-lifted as much as I like nostalgia - I'm in my element! Although I have to admit, that after a session with the photo album or 'Strictly' I'm left with a strange feeling of wistfulness, longing and a little bit of emptiness. In November, we remember: All Souls, and those killed or maimed in wars. All year long and every year, we the church, are called to remember. Every church, everywhere, remembers that on the night before he died, Jesus did certain things and said certain things. On the same night that he was betrayed, Jesus made a memorial for all time with the bread and wine. The broken body and shed blood: 'do this in remembrance of me.' The memory of the church takes us back in a continuous action to an event which is actual, real, concrete like any other historical event. One generation reminds another, but not in a trip down memory lane, and not for nostalgia. In remembering in the way we do in Holy Communion, or on 11th November, we bring the past, historical events into the present and carry it on into the future. God's saving grace, and men and women's self-sacrificing actions, live and work again through our remembering. In so many ways throughout this month and over the coming months, we shall remember. We shall also look to the future, sometimes with a sigh, sometimes with a good heart, sometimes with fear and dismay, but thank God in Jesus, always with HOPE. With love in Jesus Rev Lyn <>< Back to top of this page
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