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Date

 Person

 Event

 Pictures/Comments

 2008 - Now  Nick Francis
(with wife Liz and son Daniel)
 Youth Minister

 1998 - July 2008

 Brian Stocker

Youth Worker then
Youth Minister

 

 10th Nov 2007 -

 Rev. Steve Fisher

Induction -

 

 5th September 1999 - 
       July 2007

 Rev. Norman Hooks

Induction - Farewell 

 

 Induction Service

 

 

Joined with Baptists
to make WSUC. 

 

 

 Rev. Dafydd Jones

 

 

 4th April 1987

 

Current building
opened/dedicated. 

 Order of Service

 Photos of rebuild

 March 1986

 

Development scheme
launched.

 Leaflet on
Building for the future

 13th April 1985

 

Celebration of Life
Together.

 Methodist/URC
 Service

 

 

Methodist & URC
amalgamated. URC
used to meet at 
Radcliff Centre. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Methodist History

 

 

 

 24th February 1968

 

Opening of new 
Methodist Church
in Well Street. 

 Order of Service

 1967

 

Work on new 
building began. 

 

 1965

 

Services held in
Oddfellows Hall
in Well Street 

 

 1960

 Rev. Leslie Wollen MA

 

 

 18th November 1954

 

The Methodist
Recorder shows
drawing of front of
Methodist Church. 

 Drawing

 

 

 

 

 URC History

 

 

 Congressional Church
 Buckingham, Jubilee
 1907 Booklet

 (1972) - was 
Congressional (see 
bottom note) 

 

 

 

 January 1903 -

 Rev. Arthur Canon

 

 

 October 1890 - 1901

 Rec. C. T. Price

 

 

 April 1884 - June 1889

 Rev. H. M. Stallybrass

 

 

 1871 - September 1883

 Rev. Frederick Holmes

 

 

 1868 - 1869

 Rev. Henry Thomas

 

 

 February 1851 -

 Rev. Samuel Bellamy

 

 

 

 

         
The United Reformed Church - formed in 1972 with the coming together of the Congregational Church in England and Wales, and the Presbyterian Church of England, joined in 1981 by the Churches of Christ, and in 2001 by the Congregational Church of Scotland.
           
The Methodist Church.- Founded by John and Charles Wesley in the 18th Century as an evangelistic movement within the Church of England. After John's death it eventually split away from the C of E.