Manchester Synagogue Attack

The London Methodist District stands today in grief, shock and solidarity with our Jewish sisters and brothers as we hear of the appalling attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester.

Across London, Methodist churches and people work and live in close and mutual relationships of love and respect with our Jewish neighbours and their faith communities. Today, we reaffirm and recommit ourselves to those friendships and to deepening our common life. We ask all London Methodists to pray for all who mourn and who are in fear; and we encourage all Methodist churches in their varied and diverse contexts to continue to work and witness for peace, justice, harmony, respect and building up the common good.

On your behalf, we will reach out to Jewish leaders across London. With them, we believe and proclaim that as God’s love continues to make and remake us, hatred shall never have the final word. The great ‘Shalom’ of our Creator, in which all creation is blessed and renewed, remains our vision and our goal, by God’s grace.

Every blessing

Faith and Jonathan

Statement from the Superintendent of Bury Methodist Circuit and the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference.

Statement from Revd Ian Worsfold on behalf of City St George’s Chaplaincy.