An
introduction to Oadby Trinity Methodist Church
The Church is part
of the Leicester Trinity Circuit in Oadby, which borders on the city of
There
is a busy range of weekday activities at Trinity, both those directly
associated with the Church and some which hire the premises. These include
Scouts and Guides, an older teenage group known as Jenga, Badminton and Table
Tennis groups and a large women's meeting (known as WOW (Women on Wednesday).
Various
fellowship groups meet in homes during the week. The Church actively supports
Churches Together in Oadby (CTO), Traidcraft and Bible Society activities
within the CTO umbrella. A Coffee Morning with a Traidcraft stall is run every
Saturday morning.
Church Membership and
Attendance
The
Church has a membership of about 220, but over 500 people, including young
people and children, are associated with us and are all cared for by a pastoral
system that is largely geographical and which places everyone in a group with a
Pastoral Visitor, but with one group especially caring for newcomers.
As
with most churches these days, because of families being widely scattered and
with the style of modern life extending the scope of Sunday activities, our
Sunday attendance varies from week to week in terms of who is present. However,
morning services average about 130 adults and young people and the evening
about 30 adults.
Style of Worship
Morning
worship is normally quite busy, with young people leaving after the first 15
minutes or so for their own
One
morning service each month is usually all-age, normally on the first Sunday of
the month, and the Guides and Scouts parade on some 6-8 of these during the
year. Morning services tend to be less formal than evening worship, with a
wider range of music and activity, but preaching still forms an important part
of these times of worship.
Evening worship is normally more traditional in format.
Communion, normally using the forms found in the Methodist Worship Book, is an
integral part of worship once a month each in the morning and in the evening.
Additionally, on the first Sunday of each month a very quiet Communion Service
is held at 8.30am.
About three times a year a joint evening service is held in one
of the CTO churches and there are also evening Circuit services from time to
time.