Style of Worship
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 can attract about 200 adults and young people and the evening about 40 adults.
Morning worship is normally quite busy, with young people leaving after the first 15 minutes or so for their own Junior Church groups, which range in age from 3 to 16 years in age. There is also a crèche for the youngest children.
One morning service each month is usually all-age, normally on the second 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 Churches Together in Oadby churches and once a quarter there is also an evening Circuit service.
