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Our Sunday morning services usually begin at 10:30 (with the doors open from approximately 10am) and worship lasts for approximately an hour. Some of our special services are accessible on zoom so please get in touch via email for the details of how to join us. We have an evening service on the third Sunday of each month starting at 6.30pm.

In worship and prayer, the Methodist Church in Chapel Allerton celebrates God's work in our lives, our vibrant suburb and the wider world. We aim to be a welcoming and inclusive church who encourage everyone in their journey with Jesus.

Our minister is Revd Emily Young. She also has pastoral charge of Roscoe and Trinity Methodist churches and we are enjoying working closely with Emily and our sister churches. On Pentecost Sunday 24th May we are looking forward to a day of prayer, starting with morning prayers at 7.30am and finishing with a Taize service at 6.30pm. Please join us for as long as you like.

Raising money for charity is an important part of our ministry. Our most recent fundraiser was a visit from Harrogate Harmony Barbershop Chorus which raised over £400 for our church charity is Amaudo. Amaudo is a ground-breaking mental health programme in Nigeria for which we have already raised over £7000!

We are fortunate that our buildings are at the heart of Chapel Allerton. Our current church building, which opened in 1983, provides an excellent flexible space for worship and community activities. We welcome Little Seedlings into our church building who provide daytime play and learning opportunities for young children and their parents/carers.

The Methodist Centre across the road is in almost constant use. Last summer, our friends from Chapel A Baptist church and ourselves invested time and money in replacing the small kitchen downstairs, redecorating the upstairs hall and some of the downstairs rooms. Quite a transformation! Specialist work begins on 18th May to repair the windows of this wonderful Georgian building. We anticipate that it will take two summers and a lot of money to bring all thirty-seven windows up to standard. If you would like to know more about plans for the Centre and the church buildings, please come along to a coffee morning on Saturday 23rd May 10am until noon.

The Methodist Centre hosts a wide variety of community groups, with a total 'footfall' of about 350 people per week, including:

• a weekly community lunch club, run by church members

• Town Street Playgroup
• Youth clubs run by Thrive Leeds, an ecumenical partnership
• Brownies and Guides
• Community Table Tennis Club

• Royal Voluntary Service friendship groups

We are blessed to enjoy very good ecumenical relationships with Chapel A Baptist church who worship in the Methodist Centre, Churches Together in Chapel Allerton and Meanwood including the three other churches in partnership for Thrive Leeds.