Living Wholeheartedly
CONNEXIONAL RESOURCES FOR 2025/26
EQUIPPING in 2025/26
This Connexional year we are focussing our attention on evangelism and growth as we live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world.
At Conference 2025, the President, the Rev Alan Wardlow encouraged the Church, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to continue to proclaim Christ with boldness. He affirmed that true and lasting spiritual growth begins within the individual, and his prayer is that each of us would feel a deep, compelling urgency to take intentional steps to share the message of Jesus so that we will see many come to faith or experience a renewed commitment in the year ahead.
We are therefore encouraged as a Connexion to equip ourselves in sharing the good news of Jesus with others. This means engaging with Scripture, readings and resources that will empower us to live out Jesus in our everyday lives.
This page is a resource hub for this connectional year aimed at engaging and equipping congregations to share their faith; because as Methodist people, we believe that all need to be saved, all can be saved, all can know they are saved and all can be saved to the uttermost.
DO YOU HAVE A STORY?
We would love you to share your reflections, questions or prayers with us.
Let us know how you are sensing God this year.
You can contact us at compelled@irishmethodist.org
REV ALAN WARDLOW
PRESIDENT 2025/26
Compelled – Sunday Series
This Sunday Series is an introduction to the Connexional focus of evangelism and growth.
The resource can be used over four Sundays in September or October to begin thinking together about what God is calling you to do as a congregation to share Jesus with others in the year ahead.
The resource contains adaptable ideas and suggestions to help you craft services to suit your own setting. It aims to start, or continue, a conversation with your congregation about how they each are called to witness to Jesus and are in that sense an evangelist.
Complimentary Sunday School Sessions
– Download here
Books, courses
& more
We encourage you to engage with reading and discussion on the areas of growth and evangelism.
Why not pick a book and read it together as a Congregation, Church Council or Circuit Executive; or use one of these reads as the next book for your local book club. The invitation is to read, engage and discuss so that it begins to shape our action.
Follow the link below for lots of recommendations and as well as reviews.
further RESOURCES
2025 Conference
Pastoral Address
‘Mission, Evangelism and Irish Methodism Today’, introduces us to some thought-provoking and challenging questions.
IMYC’s Exploring Faith
A series of children’s talks, youth group Bible studies, Sunday School sessions and a holiday Bible club – all designed to help create space for children and young people to explore their questions.
Connexional Resources
still to come in 2025/26:
· Advent Worship Resources
· Advent Youth & Children’s Resources
· Watchnight Resources
· Lent 2026 Devotional Materials
We are grateful to God for His work throughout the Connexion during this season, as we journey toward seeing more people come to know, experience, and be transformed by the saving love of Jesus. Read the latest ‘Stories of Growth’ below…
