Times of Regular Services
Our Faith
As Christians we believe in the God of love as revealed in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Aware of our human frailty we claim the forgiveness and acceptance freely offered by God through faith. We respond to God’s call to each one of us by seeking to follow in the way of Jesus.
Each year we renew our commitment in a special covenant service in which we say the covenant prayer together. This is shown below together with an attempt by Rev Martyn Atkins to summarise what it means for us to be followers of Jesus in the Methodist tradition.
The Methodist Covenant Prayer
I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to what you will,
rank me with whom you will;
put me to doing, put me to suffering;
let me be employed for you or laid aside for you,
exalted for you or brought low for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty,
let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things
to your pleasure and disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
you are mine and I am yours.
So be it.
And the covenant made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven.
Amen.
“Methodist Christian discipleship is rooted in and focused on Jesus Christ, resourced by the Spirit of God, is both life-long and whole-life, communal rather than solitary, committed to transforming and serving ‘the world’, locally, nationally and globally and so is lived out on a ‘big map’, all offered as worship to God as loving obedience.”
Martyn Atkins, Discipleship and the people called Methodists (2010)
The Methodist Church is part of the Protestant Christian tradition.
“The Methodist Church claims and cherishes its place in the Holy Catholic Church which is the Body of Christ. It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation.”
Methodist Deed of Union
To explore further the Methodist Church, what Christians believe and what makes Methodism distinctive within the wider Christian Church
see the Methodist Church Website.
Baptisms and Thanksgiving
For more information about Baptisms and Thanksgiving services please see our Children and Young People page.
Our History
The Methodist Church has had a presence in Haxby and Wigginton for many years. Here are some notable dates in our history here over the years.
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1782 — The first Methodist Chapel was established at Haxby in North Lane.
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1813 — The congregation moved to a new, larger chapel on the road called The Village (on a site that’s now a fish and chip shop).
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1837 — The first Primitive Methodist Chapel in Haxby opened, located on the corner of Westfield Lane (now Northern Scientific).
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1879 — Numbers continued to expand and in 1879 the present day Methodist Chapel was built close to the parish boundary with Wigginton.
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1932 — The Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist churches unify to form “The Methodist Church.”
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1956 — The Methodist Chapel opens an extension with kitchen and toilets
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1968 — The Sunday School Primary Department, now too cramped, moves out into Wigginton Recreation Hall for the next three years.
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1971 — A prefabricated “Wademade” classroom is erected at the Methodist Chapel.
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1977 — The chapel is refurbished internally and a glazed entrance porch added.
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1995 — New facilities and hall are added to the rear of the premises, with the Sunday School (Junior Church) moving out each week into the Wigginton Recreation Hall until building works are complete.
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2008 — The church is redecorated, the pews removed and replaced with chairs.
We are very grateful to Mr Ian V Winduss for giving us permission to use facts and excerpts from his book Two Hundred Years – The Story of Methodism in Haxby and Wigginton.