Today we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the early Church in order for them to continue the ministry of Jesus. It is our tradition to encourage as many as possible to wear red on that day – the liturgical colour, representing the red flames of Pentecostal fire!

It is also the commemoration in the Church of England calendar of the conversion of John Wesley (24th May 1738) and of his brother Charles who wrote all of the hymns we will be singing at the 9.30am Parish Eucharist.

John Wesley was not the founder of the Methodist Church (as if often mistakenly claimed). Along with his brother Charles and George Whitfield they became the leaders of a renewal movement within the Church of England nicknamed ‘Methodism’. It was only after their death that many of their converts left the Church of England to form a new denomination - The Methodist Church.