EAST BELT WESLEY CHURCH

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 2

EAST BELT WESLEY CHURCH

ANNUAL REPORT. The forty-first annual report of the Wesley Church, East Belt, states that during tho year a further large number of young men of tho church and Bible Class have gone to take their places at the front or in training camps. The total number on the Roll of Honour is non- fifty-two. During tho last twelvo months three more -of tho church soldiers, viz., Sergeant

W. Stevens, Corporal H. N. Buttle anci Private J. Harris, have made the supremo sacrifice, and have given their lives for their King and‘country, and sincercst sympathy is extended to tho sorrowing relatives and friends. News has also been received that Private Frank Thompson has been seriously wounded. The church membership is now 280,

junior members seventy. This is a slight decrease on last figures. By the sudden death of the late Mr K. F. England, the church has lost one of the best known and most respected members and trustees. The attend-

ance. at tho Sunday services has been fairly well maintained, and tho various devotional meetings, Communion services and prayer meetings have been well attended. Red Cross work has not been neglect-

ed by tho people, and a young people’s class" for bands go making, etc., has been held, and a Soldiers’ Comforts Guild conducted by tho ladies of tho church. The Sunday School continues to bo very successful, the roll numbering 325 scholars and thirty-eight teachers and officers.

The receipts for the year were £327 7s lid, the expenditure being £242 2s od.