{"id":2030,"date":"2025-03-24T17:52:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=2030"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:52:41","slug":"open-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/groups\/activities-and-groups-for-adults\/open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We will be opening our Coffee Lounge on <strong>Wednesdays from 10.30am until 1.30pm<\/strong> from September to June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This continues as a follow-on from our Warm Space project which we began in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the Methodist \u2013 and other Churches around Colchester \u2013 joined the initiative to provide a Warm Space available to all during the coldest times of the year. We continue to do so assisted by volunteers from among our friends from St Botolph\u2019s church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our churches are open at varying times, and for differing lengths of time. Details of opening times for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/colchestermethodists.org.uk\/2022\/12\/15\/warm-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\">other Methodist Churches can be found on the Circuit website here<\/a>, or on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warmwelcome.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warm Welcome website here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be offering a warm space to be, and a free hot drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes we will be offering activities (games \/ craft \/ jig-saws), somewhere to charge a mobile device, a quiet place to work, or even a light lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We look forward to giving you a Warm Welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be opening our Coffee Lounge on Wednesdays from 10.30am until 1.30pm from September to June 2025. This continues as a follow-on from our Warm Space project which we&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2031,"parent":228,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2030\/revisions\/2033"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castlemethodistchurch.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}