Bray Methodist Church

       Florence Road, Bray Co. Wicklow.  Tel: 01 2869647

      


Church Services

Special Events
Sunday School
Kids Club
Youth Work
CAMEO
MWA
Cell Group
Alpha Courses
Counselling Centre
Bereavement Counselling
Helen McNieve School of Dancing
Accommodation

Our Mission is to be a living, growing Christ centered congregation serving our Community and neighbourhood   

Welcome to Bray Methodist Church

   

Welcome to Bray Methodist Church Website!

 We hope you’ll find the site interesting and come back and surf many more times in the future—it’s our hope to update the site regularly!  My family and I moved to Bray at the beginning of July 2007, and we are beginning to settle into a new community and church life. I believe that Bray Methodist is a unique society! I have the responsibility and privilege of leading a committed group of talented leaders and members who hail from many parts of the world. We are never content with ‘the way things are’! Bray Methodist Church is determined to be a Welcoming, Loving and Relevant fellowship that desires to discover new ways of impacting the wider community with Christ’s message of unconditional love.

 If you are searching for a spiritual home, you’ll find a comfortable and unobtrusive welcome in Bray Methodist. At least, that’s been my experience!

With every good wish,

Rev. Andrew Dougherty.

 

 REFLECTION… 

Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Unless you take up your cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.’

 In our modern world the ‘cross’ is often something beautiful or something to be admired, like a gold necklace that we wear around or neck or an impressive carving made out of wood that adorns a wall of many churches. It’s difficult for us to imagine a crude and cruel instrument of torture like the ‘old rugged cross’.

 When we think about ‘taking up our cross’ we often concentrate on those situations and circumstances that are imposed upon us—those things that we can’t do anything about—like the loss of a loved one, a debilitating disease or a friendship that has been destroyed because of a stupid misunderstanding!

 Being a disciple of Jesus in the modern world is a serious business, and taking up our cross’ is more than impositions. For me, ‘taking up our cross’ has more to do with the choices we make in life. I’m not suggesting that Christians should actively seek out suffering to ‘prove’ our commitment, but I do believe that ‘taking up our cross’ has to do with the sacrifices that we choose to make for our self, such as making time for people and ‘giving’ to those who are less fortunate, loving those we would rather have nothing to do with, getting involved within the life of a church rather than being a backseat observer, the painful decision for the sake of others or the ‘holding’ of our tongue!

To personally know something of the love of Jesus, helps turn our sacrifices from acts of begrudge into a lifestyle of privilege! Think about it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                             

 

Contact Information

Telephone
+01 2869647, 086 6043944                                                                   
Postal address
Florence Road, Bray, Co.Wicklow, Ireland
Electronic mail
General Information: braymethodist@utvinternet.com
Webmaster: Heather Brown

 

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