On behalf of Wesley Road Chapel we offer you a warm welcome.

Perhaps you are curious about what goes on in this building.

Maybe you are looking for friendship and a place to belong.

It could be that you would like someone to pray for you.

You may be here because you are part of one of the groups which use the building or because you are here for a wedding or baptism or funeral.

Whatever the reason we are glad you are here and would like to offer you some information about what goes on here.

Please do not hesitate to pick up a phone and find out more.

Every blessing

Rev Paul Allen and Rev Susan Smith

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MINISTER’S LETTER   July 2010 Dear Friends, It seems to be the season for competition.  The World Cup and Wimbledon are both in progress.   Great news for sports enthusiasts.   Buy spare a thought for young people.   It is also the exam season.   Knowledge is put to the test and people compete for enough qualifications to move on the next stage in their lives.   It may be 6th form, college, university or into the world of work.   We all know what it is like to have to compete and whilst it can be hard and stressful, it often brings out the best in us.   This may well be true in our Christian faith.   Indeed the New Testament urges us to press forward for the goal that lies before us.   We are challenged to bring to our faith the dedication and commitment of the athlete.   But, of course, in all competitions there are winners and losers.   The New Testament counters the harshness of this with the understanding that everyone is important.   We can see this in Paul’s doctrine of the church being like a body - which depends on all its members.   We can see it too in the teaching of Jesus where the first will be last and the last shall be first.   So let us press on in faith bringing the commitment of the athlete to our Christian service, but with the compassion of the Samaritan who stops to save his neighbour.   Best wishes,    Paul