Previous Church affairs

No not that sort of affair. I was at a previous church and have since met two of the congregation who have confided in me that they aren't especially happy there. 

"You only have to scratch the surface" 

I had been attending the Methodist Church at the top of my street for around six years also taking my friend, my daughter and a doctor who stayed with us for a couple of years. I held my Nan's 'funeral' there - there was no coffin due to an inquest and I simply couldn't wait more than two weeks to pay my respects. We basically had a party - no alcohol at the church obviously but we had a lovely grey cake, pineapples on the table, projected videos and in the end the only thing I drew the line at was a raffle. That being such a winning formula and having such a good turnout I held my daughters tenth birthday party there and it was essentially a carbon copy. 

I did get baptised into the Methodist Church and really went to town with the white dress and bare feet and I was really pleased. Moving forwards the offer was always there to contribute to their newsletter and/or national publication. I always wanted to be invited to do a reading but it sadly never happened. 

"The feeling of going to any church is always a good one." 

 My local Methodist is just at the top of my street with an excellent piano player. The vicar's son plays live and writes his own hymns. The Vicar/ Father is lovely too but it never felt quite religious enough for me, more of a simplified version.

 Covid made it very difficult indeed. Church simply wasn’t the same Then some people I knew from the congregation stopped going because they moved away. The children started to grow up.  But the final straw for me was when we ask to come together to give strength to someone over a parking ticket. I'm sorry but that's just ridiculous and looking back it spelt the end for me.

There were also a couple of  'run - ins' online which I shall add to this post should I come across them again in the future.