Welcome

The Square is a place of worship and prayer where a warm welcome awaits you, whoever you are.🌈

For details of our Sunday services and other aspects of the church's life click on the tabs above.

We also have five rooms that are used by a variety of community groups during the week, and are are available for your event too. To enquire about hiring for weddings, funerals, meetings, parties or other events, please click Your Event in the menu above.

Café Worship

Meet other people, have a coffee and a cake. Read the Sunday papers. If you have not been to The Square before this is a gentle way to try us out. See the Worship page.

Youth Groups

Activities for younger people at The Square.
Read about Sunday Club, Inters Youth Club, Brownies, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts here.

 Mission Statement

 We are a town centre church aiming to radiate God’s love,
as revealed in
Jesus Christ,
for the local community and the wider world.

We seek to help people in their search for God
through our worship, prayer and action.

House Groups

A number of house groups meet regularly in  an informal setting to explore what it means to be a Christian

Drama Circle
Next Production

Our next production will not be our pantomime in March 2024, as we have had to cancel this due to unforeseen circumstances. Look out for our next production in the Autumn.

See our page.

HEADLINES

Please click here to submit your own news item

District Bulletin

Received 16 October

Beds, Essex and Herts Methodist District has initiated a District Bulletin, something we hope will evolve moving forward to be a useful tool for sharing information across the District.

Read the first edition here.

Shambles Show

Received 4 October

Thank You from The Church to the Burrett Family for producing & delivering this year's Big Band Show on Saturday 28th Sept & securing an extra £500, by way of matched funding, on top of the large amount of money raised on the night for Action for Children (formerly NCH) - our own children's charity.

Shambles Band was on excellent form & as ever, got everyone swinging!

Many grateful thanks to all who helped in any way & attended (including our Mayor, cllrs. & friends) in spite of some very heavy storms during the previous days. 

Thanks again, keep a watch out for the next show as Shambles will be appearing again during the year & never disappoint !

Fund for Human Need

Received 24 September

The Fund for Human Need (FHN) is a small Methodist-affiliated charity established in 1960 to relieve poverty and hunger. You can read their third newsletter for 2024 here.

Volunteer Opportunity

Received 16 September

Do you have a heart for rural communities? The Beds, Essex and Herts district of the Methodist Church is looking to appoint a volunteer Rural Officer. Please contact the BEH Office for an application pack, including further information.

Job Opportunity

Received 13 September

The King's School, Harpenden are looking for a personal assistant to the headteacher. If you're interested, please see full details here. 

Job Opportunity

Received 12 September

St Albans and Welwyn Circuit are currently looking for a part-time administrator (15 hours per week) for our circuit office, starting on 1st November. Contact David Jebb, Circuit Superintendent: djebb@icloud.com

Superintendent Minister's Message

Received 3 September

The Rev Patrick Kandeh, Superintendent Minister for South Bedfordshire Circuit, has sent this message for the new Connexional year.

Craft a Poppy for the Square

Received 13 July

For Remembrance Sunday (10th November) this year, we would like to decorate the railings leading up to the front doors of the church with hand-made poppies.

These can be made with whatever you wish as anything not weatherproof will be used inside the church. If you can knit or crochet, these will be suitable for outside as they can withstand getting wet.

There are many free poppy patterns available online; it would be lovely to have a variety of sizes and designs - we will need lots!

If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Foster: 01582 757983 or lisafoster223@gmail.com

Autumn International Service

Received 28 June
Updated 11 September

We will have an international service on October 13, where everybody will be invited to prepare a special dish from his/her country!

This is not all: we would like people to present/perform a poem, a song, a music that tells about your country of origin.

We will come back to you to let you know what we need to organise the logistics.

Be ready to take part...you are all invited!!!

Bring a friend if you can!

Square Prayer

Received 14 June

Square Prayer is a WhatsApp group (formally known as the Square Prayer Chain) that promises to pray for any prayer requests received. If you have a prayer request, the members in the group are happy to pray for you and/or your request. Prayers are prayed for as received, not embellished, not judged, not discussed. All requests are treated confidentially. Please, if you would like to add anything to the prayer list, contact me and I will ensure it gets added. Equally, if you would like to join the Square Prayer WhatsApp Group and pray for, and on behalf of others, contact me.

Linda Berry
prayer@squaremethodist.org