A Jersey man has been scaling new heights during the lockdown and climbing Everest - without leaving his garden, to raise money for The Salvation Army’s coronavirus relief work.Retired policeman and grandfather of three Peter Picot is climbing the height of tallest mountain in the world up his ladder - almost 9,000 meters, for ‘Peter’s Ladder Up Everest Challenge’.The 64-year-old has been climbing a kilometre -that’s 1,000 meters, every day and said the idea for his Salvation Army fundraiser came to him when he was clearing his gutters one day.
“I wanted to fundraise for a charity that is supporting the covid-19 crisis. I chose The Salvation Army because they are doing fantastic work to support the vulnerable in our community at this time and they deserve our support”, said Peter. Peter’s original plan for his Salvation Army fundraiser was to collect £250 for our church and charity which has a centre on Minden Street in St Helier.But thanks to the support of his friends, family and well-wishers he is now on course to reaching £2,250 for The Salvation Army’s covid-19 relief work.
“I originally set my target at £250 and thought I’d be lucky to get to £500, but I’ve reached that target several times since then due to people’s generosity. I couldn’t have done it without my sons Iain and Richard who put it on social media and it’s brilliant that so many people have decided to donate to The Salvation Army – it’s really helps me to push through when I’m going up and down the ladder.”
Peter will be completing his ‘Peter’s Ladder Up Everest Challenge’ on Thursday 23 April at which point he will be planting a Jersey flag on the summit (his roof). You can support him by donating at his Just Giving pagehttps://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Peter-Picot
COVID-19.News on activities by our Pickles Village Team & also church news, bibl
Easter Day: Card created by the children during our service by using paper roll ends, coloured & with stars to celebrate our risen Lord.
Easter Day: The Cross decorated with flowers during Easter Sunday service by our congregation, & continued after by the children to ensure all spaces filled.
Good Friday craft made by the children from Bethesda & EB. at the circuit service at EB. Very simple but effective craft activity for the them to create during the service. Easter 2021: Our PIckles families got creative again, & we have distributed these coloured crosses & Easter cards to our friends from our Generations Group around the island ,& our senior congregation members. Mothering Sunday 2021: Praise be, we could open this year.Last year Mothering Sunday was the 1st Sunday we all had to close!So, yesterday we continued the tradition of giving all the ladies in our congregation a primrose & also delivered some to our ladies from our Generations Group. PICKLES: Lots of happy families as our Friday sessions have finally restarted (12th March), although with reduced numbers as we have had to split into 2 groups, each coming alternative weeks, to abide by latest restrictions People were so delighted with their Heart Bomb cards & decorations, & that we are still thinking of them. We have received a number of emails & phone calls thanking us. This one below was specially crafted by one grateful lady
14th February 2021: Radio Jersey researchers follow churches Facebook pages for their Faith slot on Sundays;& look at ours frequently. Spotted the H B item & keen to know more. Tune into the Faith slot on BBC Radio Jersey this Sunday, 7.35am to catch our administrator speaking to Matthew Price about Ebenezer's HEART BOMB delivery. Radio Jersey - Listen Live - BBC Sounds 10th February: Image of all the 'Heart Bomb' craft work prepared by our lovely Pickles families over the last few weeks. They have really enjoyed the task , helping us keep in contact with all the special guests from around the island who attend our elderly community groups. This is our 5th delivery since lockdown last year. Deliveries happening this week.,helping those people affected with the isolation & loneliness. 8th February; One of the children from our Pickles Village craft team has been part of the pen pal scheme with one of our elderly members of Generations since lockdown last year. He remembered that Joyce loves doing puzzles & has drawn Joyce doing a puzzle with him helping , on the left hand side of his Valentine Card to her.
Heart Bomb,- some of the examples on the production line ready to deliver soon ! 21st January 2021: HEART BOMB ! Our 2 Community Workers have been very busy this week photocopying, cutting out, sticking and creating the packs to hand around to our Pickles families to get creative & prepare for our next delivery/postal drop around Valentines Day in February.. We’ve had lots of interest already ,so Amy & Kirsty playing postman and delivering packs all over the island. Trinity had the the Christmas Eve slot for the 12 Parishes of Christmas, some lovely shots of our parish Sunday 20th Dec: Instead of our usual 'Chaos @ the Crib' in church, Rev Nico has recorded a story of the little camel & Kirsty has demonstrated a craft actvity, the nativity scene to hang on your Christmas tree. Welcome to our December craft video for Friends @ 4. on Ebenezer Methodist Church, Jersey Facebook page. If you would like a craft kit to colour your own Christmas decoration, please get in touch either by commenting below or sending a Facebook message or email and we will send it out to you. Thank you. Merry Christmas from us all. Welcome to our December Friends @ 4 Story - The Camel who found Christmas Ebenezer Methodist Church Baby Jesus pebbles all ready for distribution next week Our Christmas craft TEAM have swung into action & produced a lovely Stained glass window with a candle decoration to hang in people' s windows with the day light shining through.
We also received a large number of craft items from Trinity School to deliver to the elderly around our Parish. So Maison Cabot & Gallichan, 29 units, & other elderly folk will have a hand delivery from members of our congregation to brighten their Christmas. Ovor the last few Sundays a small group of us have met to create the below pebble stones. Most are a drawing of baby Jesus in his crib. These will be given out to our congregation over the next week & also left around the centre of Trinity for people to pick up as a gift from us, for their houses. FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER: Our Leadership Team have decided to close Pickle’s & P + until January , as being a social gathering very hard to ensure people keep safe at all times. Our 2nd Lunch for our special senior guests also cannot go ahead, but we aim to do one in the New Year if things improve . We have also decided to close church again unfortunately, probably next Sunday too. But will advise later next week Church is decorated ready for when we can return, hopefully before Christmas.Christmas Day service this year is at EBe. , but again decision will be made much closer to that time whether we go ahead & our Sunday service 2 days later. However, our wonderful Ebe. Team are being as inventive as possible & are going ‘virtual’ with Chaos @ the Crib , that was due next Sunday afternoon at 4 pm Our Pickles Team decided that we would offer another Book reading Video ,along with a craft video so we can reach people online via………… EBENEZER METHODIST CHURCH, JERSEY ……….. Facebook page. Amy will do a Book video on the 11th, 18th and 24th for the Pickles closed FB page. Rev. Nico will do a Book video of the Nativity and Kirsty will do a craft video on colouring already prepared Christmas Tree ornaments which was scheduled for Chaos@The Crib & Friends@4. We thought it would be good to upload and offer it on Sunday the 20th instead of the 13th so it will be closer to Christmas Day. Church decorated ready for our return before Christmas Day. Our Bethlehem star is now hanging from our front porch , shining out with hope for 2021
Sunay 30th November: Advent Sunday, our journey towards Christmas Day begins. The tree is up in church, more decorating to follow over next few weeks.
FRIENDS@4; Hello Everyone, I hope you have enjoyed watching Revd Nico's Videos on our Facebook page , sharing our story this month of Joseph. The video will now explain how to make your very own Joseph. If you would like to make your own Joseph please get in touch either on here or email Kirsty at klecouilliard@gmail.com and we will make sure you recieve a craft kit.
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2020: With restrictions at the Parish War Memorial it was decided to hold a special Service at EB. so that the more senior members of our congregation had the opportunity to be part of a Remembrance 'live service'. The chldren were very involved with J playing his French Horn, O doing the bible reading & making the large poppies in this photo.' We have just received in the post the June issue of the magazine that the Arthur Rank Centre produce. It is called' Life & faith in rural Britain..... Country Way. This article appeared about our Easter Cross. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wednesday 28th October:Generations: Soup & pudding Lunch last Wednesday. Thank you from our Leadership Team to all those who made the delicious soups & puddings & helped in any way; we had 20 ‘special guests’ from around the island join us, plus our team of helpers. We received £86 in donations & raised some money for the Poppy Appeal by the sale of ‘Jersey Wonders’ made by Carol du Feu.
We will hopefully do this again early December depending on Covid-19 restrictions. Kristy has updated our Facebook page:
Hello Everyone, I wanted to update on Friends @ 4 for the rest of the year, unfortunately we can not share our usual fellowship meal afterwards but tea/coffee/ juice and biscuits will be available at the start.
25th October 2020 - David and Goliath 22nd November 2020 - Joseph and his coat 13th December 2020 Chaos around the Crib (this is a joint Christmas service with our Pickles Family)… HARVEST 2020: The long harvest wreath was made by our children the Sunday before Harvest to show the fruits of the Jersey hedgerows. The small discs were created by the children at Pickles the Friday before. A great Team EB. effort. More photos in our PHOTOS album special services. The donated items of tins, jars and packets were delivered to Jersey Women's Refuge & The Shelter.
The knitted items were donated to Mustard Seed Jersey with tinned goods to take to Romania before CHristmas. ![]() BBC Jersey have recorded a television interview with Amy Britton at EBENEZER about re-opening PICKLES and how important playgroups in general are to mums/carers and children....especially coming out of lockdown. The group is currently full but do tune in to BBC Jersey (television) at 18.30 and 22.30 to catch the interview today (Wednesday 30th September)
Radio Jersey ran the full interview over Thursday lunchtime this is the link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08rfcf6 and scroll along to 2:31:20 and Amy talks for 3 minutes
![]() HARVEST THANKSGIVING 2020
Please see below some photos of our church for harvest . Our church is very gratefull to all who helped set up, supplied the many dried goods . The knitted items went to Mustard Seed , Jersey for delivery to Romania together with tins of food.
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![]() Other tins, jars & packets were delivered to The Shelter & Jersey Womens Refuge
![]() ![]() The large long wreath was created by our children the Sunday before. The round wreaths were created at our Pickles Group last Friday.
PICKLES PLUS- September 2020:
We are now opening registration for Pickles Plus. Due to the fact that children will not be allowed to share
any craft resources (as they are from different school bubbles) preparing for P+ has become very labour intensive and therefore we will only be meeting indoors once a month. We will also arrange a stomp around the woods/beach/park once a month meaning that we still have the opportunity to meet up every other Friday afternoon.
Spaces are extremely limited for the indoor sessions so please only register if you can commit to attending all of them on 25th September, 23rd October, 20th November and 11th December.
In order to keep everyone safe parents will be asked to supervise their children and help them to social distance and to take turns using certain resources (for example we will only be able to have 4 doing Lego and 2 doing sensory play at one time) and therefore the sessions may not feel as ‘free’ (or relaxing for parents) as they have done in the past. There will also be fewer toys available for younger children (although of course some will be provided). This is just the way in has to be in order for us to open safely at the moment!
Due to the need to deep clean afterwards sessions will be ten minutes shorter running from 3.10ish until 4.30.
Please bare all of this in mind before you decide whether you and your family want to register. We are aware that we will probably not have enough space for everyone, so our apologies if you are disappointed.
If you do decide you would like to register please email Kirsty giving her the full names of all who would like to attend (including babes in arms) and contact details for the adult attending.
We look forward to hearing from you. Amy and Kirsty x
![]() Ebenezer will be re-starting their ‘Friends@4’ on 27th September with a family friendly Harvest themed service at 4 pm. We have a great story lined up and the crafts will be set up in individual packets in line with government advice for Covid-19 restrictions. Unfortunately we can't sing, but we can join in with the actions! Due to restrictions, we will not be having the usual meal after the service, but there will be an opportunity for continued fellowship with light refreshments in the Church.
Pickles is reopening but due to new gov. restrictions, numbers are very limited. Our Hall & all equipment has had a deep clean to get ready. Therefore our Community Worker has had to ask people to enrole for the first time ever. WE are now full with a few on a waiting list. So please, do NOT just turn up. We received this lovely thank you note from JYPA for using our church for their rehearsals in early summer. During lockdown we had a good tidy up & found this old hymn book. ! Amazing how over 100 years later this is exactly the message TEAM EB, are aiming for during this pandemic. A ' Band of Hope', a message of hope & support for these difficult times in 2020. BBC Radio Jersey interviewed our administrator Sunday 30th August on Generations, & how we were running the events/activities during lockdown. The interview was about 5 minutes long & starts at 2.33 during the early morning Breakfast Show. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08nvcb8 See our website for further photos, .....PHOTOS album Generations folder AFTERNOON TEA FOR GENERATIONS August 2020: After all the social isolating it was lovely to be able to restart Generations with 30 special guests from around the island join us. Our first meeting since February! JYPA- See poster below,This is their latest show. They used our church for rehearsals & some of us went to the performance last night. It was amazing, such talent in our young Jersey people. Because of Jersey Covid-19 restrictions only 40 people can attend each performance. JERSEY YOUTH PERFOMERS ARTS (JYPA)- Parents, teachers and youth workers have come together to launch a new charity aimed at giving children access to the performing arts, regardless of their means or abilities. Sunday 9th August: Go to our LINKS folder, or Facebook page & view the children's craft activity in our on line cirucit service. Well worth a view!
GENERATIONS: We have now set a date for 'Afternoon Tea' in our church on Thursday 27th August from 3 pm. Our first get together since lockdown at the end of March. Photo of our Afternoon Tea in 2019 ! BBC Radio Jersey interview re. UK Web Archive at The British 14th July 2020: We have received a request from The British Library for permission to place our website in their archives for future posterity. This will be one example of how' churches' had to adapt & adopt new ways of doing things during Covid-19 crisis. 'The British Library would like to archive Ebenezer Jersey website in the UK Web Archive and to make it publicly available; under topic...'Independent & Free Churches' or our Jersey collection'. The UK Web Archive was established in 2004 to capture and archive websites from the UK domain and across the web, responding to the challenge of a digital black hole in the nations memory.It contains specially selected websites that represent different aspects of UK heritage on the web, as well as important global events. We work closely with leading international institutions to collect and permanently preserve the web, and the open UK Web Archive can be seen at http://www.webarchive.org.uk/'.
GENERATIONS: No starting date as yet. However, we are planning an Afternoon Tea, perhaps towards the end of August with social distancing in church which has the space. Some of our loyal monthly guests are very keen to meet up & missing the group, & catch up on all their news. If you would like to join us please let Michael/Anne know please.
5th July: Praise be finally open for worship. The bunting that we flew on the front of our church during the early lockdown period was taken down on Monday. July 2020: We are delighted that Pickles annual 'Graduation' ceremony will take place again this year. But with restrictions this will be held at an outside venue & a much smaller gathering, with only those families with children graduating being able to attend. June 2020: The Methodist Church London Media Office produce a quarterly magazine 'The Connexion' & this summer issue featured our intergenerational work. This magazine is circulated around the British Isles & to our global partners. Our article is towards the end of the magazine with stories from around the world. Friday 5th June: Another Butterfly to add to our collection to wing out to our island community. More flying in ! "Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and pleases wherever it goes". Sunday 31st May: A thank you card from one of the ladies from Jersey Re-engage Group who comes to Generations. FRIDAY 22ND MAY METHODIST RECORDER: The Methodist Recorder is an independent weekly newspaper that examines events and current affairs within the Methodist community in Britain and worldwide. It has been published continuously since 1861. With the annual celebration of Aldersgate Sunday, please find attached a well-known quote from John Wesley, which is very appropriate in these times & with the community outreach work by our Pickles Team. ( Church service for Aldersgate Sunday 24th May can be viewed in our VIDEO folder)
Wednesday 20th May: PICKLES ACTIVITY BOX- NEW BITS + change of location. Thank you note from one of our Generations ladies who comes to us from the Jersey branch of Re-engage. So sad that Nessie thinks we will meet soon! The loneliness felt by the elderly in our community is becoming more evident now lockdown continues for them. Two more items of artwork, but this time by 2 young members of our 'church family' . Now have new owners & displayed on their window sill to brighten up each day. Friday 16th May : Pauline who attends Generations is in hospital, over the weekend, so one of our young Pickles has prepared a Get Well card, See below.
Thursday 14th May: EXCITING NEW PROJECT ALERT! Some of you may know Amy has a brother who runs his own media company in the UK, and he has said that he will edit together for her our very own, super professional Pickles Music Video!!! Sunday 10th May 2020: Amongst the recipients of the artwork of PICKLES @ EBENEZER is Nessie of St Helier.
VE Day Friday 8th May 2020: JEP article on 'virtual' Liberation Day service Sat 9th May.
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The Methodist Podcast Episode 16: how churches have responded to the coronavirus In this week's podcast: * The UK has now been in lockdown for six weeks and during that time many Methodist churches have been working hard providing for the spiritual and practical needs of their communities. * We’ll also be hearing from the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, the Secretary of the Conference and from the Youth President on their thoughts of how the Connexion has faced up to the coronavirus crisis. 35 min long 4th May: We have all got used to being at HOME ! Monday 1st May 2020: Dear Mike,Thank you very much for your email and photographs.We will have a look on the website and add the content to our web collections for the 'social history record ' during Covid-19 2020. LIBERATION 75 WEEKEND: These are 2 flags drawn by S & E for us to post to all our special friends of EB. & church community.
Saturday 2nd May 2020 : JEP article in their section Jersey Together Community Noticeboard. COVID-19. SUNDAY WORSHIP & other resources for this pandemic: Thursday 30th April: Big thanks to the lovely people at Jersey Post. Amy cheekily asked if we could give a home to any of their gorgeous postcards that they had left over and these arrived in the post yesterday. They are now in another folder in the Pickles activity box! ππππβοΈ Wednesday 29th April: Introducing...the Pickles Activity Box! Monday 27th April 2020- Friends@4 update:Kirsty will send out a craft pack to all our Friends @ 4 children. Our theme for April would have been Jonah and the Whale and she has a couple of simple crafts that could easily be done at home, along with a picture to colour suitable for our wide age range.Kirsty will get the packs all organized this week and get them posted out.. MONDAY 27th APRIL: As you may know we were all asked if we could fly flags from our buildings if we can, to raise people’s spirits during Covid-19.We were going to have a service of celebration & thanksgiving on VE Day 8th May ,& to also Inc. our usual 9th May Liberation Service.So we’ve been busy at EB . & decorated our church to cover both the request & for next week’s Liberation 75 weekend.The porch bunting forms an inverted V for victory , which was used during Occupation & at Liberation.
Friday 24th April: 'PICKLES VILLAGE TEAM': If there is anyone who would like to have a new pen pal & especially those of you who come to Generations & know one of the children.Then if you would like to have a child pen pal (as we’re trying to build meaningful relationships), please let Michael know if you would like to join in.Joyce and Federico (‘a little friend from Generations’) have started the ball rolling already.
Wednesday 22nd April:A retired activity instructor is climbing the world’s highest mountain during lockdown to raise money to support vulnerable islanders through the virus crisis...using ladders in his garden. Pictured: Peter Picot climbed 1,204 metres in 2 hours 10 minutes on the first day of his challenge. As a semi-retired outdoor activity and ski instructor, the concept that climbing the ladder was 'like climbing a mountain' came to mind."I did some mathematics and decided I could ladder up Everest."Mr Picot originally set his fundraising target at £250, but in just two days donations surpassed his goal on his JustGiving page.He has since had to increase his target many times in response to the generous donations, which have come from as far as Singapore.
Sunday 20th: Our 3rd 'virtual bible study' seesion since lockdown, led by Rev Derek. Screen shot of some of the faces joining us .All of us embracing new technology to carry on our church life in these difficult times. We even had 1 very special friend of EB. join us from Scotland ! Saturday 18th April: Our group working like a 'factory' producing more items. This time for our Jersey Nightingale Hospital & Capt. Tom !
Wednesday15th April- Pickles hard work on display by a gratefull Granny
Tuesday 14th April: A member of the public passing our church took thsi picture !
Mum wanted you and the Ebenezer team to know that she loves her pictures from the children and they are up for her to look at. The lady who recieved this envelope has major health issues & one of many we included in our distribution. Wednesday 8th April: This a small example of the wonderful work that our Pickles Village Team have created over the last 10 days. It has been in 72 hours quarantine , ready to post to our young families & senior folk in our 'church family', other freinds of EB. ,& also our very special guests who attend Generations Our Leadership Team gave some thought of how we would celebrate Easter during this national emergency. But also in this crisis to remind us all of the sacrifice our health workers here & globally, & all essential workers are making to support us all. Then we decorated our cross as usual for Easter . And in this crisis shining out with light, love & hope for this Easter message Hymn ' Father I place into your hands.'..... this is a hymn that Anne, Rosemary & Mike use the first 2 verses as a PRAYER Father, I place into your hands, The things I cannot do. Bible verses: In these very difficult times if you would like to read from the bible, There are 4 ways to access our weekly Sunday morning broadcast from SHMC: The first is the easiest: www.Jerseymethodist.org.uk and click into the pale blue News circle for the link to the broadcast and also the order of service www.youtube.com then ‘Methodist Circuit Jersey UK’ for our own channel. You will also see other services and videos which we post www.methodistcentre.je and click into ‘join us on Facebook’ on the top banner https://www.facebook.com/Jersey-Methodist-Circuit-469780690223212/ and scroll down to the picture of the SHMC Lord Jesus Christ, you taught us to love our neighbour, and to care for those in need as if we were caring for you. YourNeighbour.org: An Easter pledge to the nation- A pledge this Easter. With Easter this weekend, we want to get the message far and wide that the Church is here for the nation. This Easter we are asking 1000 UK Church leaders to publicly commit to supporting their local communities, to bring a message of hope, so that no-one will be alone, without the help they need, during the COVID-19 crisis. For those who need help with food, medicine and essential supplies, or simply want someone to talk to on the phone or online: We are here for you We are here for you. For those working on the frontline, fighting COVID-19 and sustaining our essential public services: We are here for you. For those serving in national or local government who are looking for organisations that can lend their staff, volunteers, buildings and assets to support our national effort to beat this disease: We are here for you. Whatever the future holds, churches in the UK stand ready, willing and able to serve. May the hope of Easter be with us all, (UK Church Leaders) Thank you, Ebenezer Methodist Church, Jersey for signing the pledge. An intercessory prayer
CRISIS APPEALS: we are still receiving appeals for food &/ or cash to help those in our local community, who will now find themselves in desperate circumstances. If anyone can offer help let me know & I can send you the emails with all the necessary info. on OUR PICKLES VILLAGE LOGO.
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