New Members

On Monday, 4th March, 2019 we welcomed three new members at the St Matthews branch in Douglas: Ann, Margaret and Rachel. In the middle is our Chaplain Ben, with the Branch leader Janet on his right.

   Our President’s visit

‘On the 26th February I was at Mary Sumner House in London, at a meeting of the Diocesan Presidents of Britain and Ireland.

There was a presentation from our new Worldwide President Sheran Harper, an introduction to the new Worldwide Board, and an update from our CEO Bev Jullien on the Mother’s Union in Britain and Ireland.

My day at Mary Sumner House confirmed to me that the Mother’s Union is a Worldwide Christian charity that steps out in prayer to support and empower families were ever they may live’ Gail.

              Advent service 2018

The Advent Carol Service took place at Marown Church on December 4th. In our photo we can see our Trustees, some of whom were stepping down and others stepping up for the new triennium. Also we can see Nigel our Chaplain who will also be stepping down at the end of January 2019 and gifts for Graih- ‘A home for the homeless’.

Peel branch visit May 2017

Captain Clampton, Clergy, Members and friends of St. German’s Mothers’ Union at the Salvation Army Citadel during their visit. Following as tour of the , shortly to be demolished, facilities by Captain Clampton, the group enjoyed a ‘sharing menu’ at the nearby Da Vinci’s restaurant. photographed by the Dean.

          Thy kingdom come 1.6.17

Mothers’ Union members and Rev Colin Fleetney at the Cathedral following lunchtime prayers for Thy Kingdom Come.

Afternoon tea fundraiser 2.3.17

Pictures showing a great afternoon tea, at Kirk Braddan, on Thursday afternoon. It was the JMP of the East and the North.

The money raised is going to provide ladies and gentleman’s toiletries bags for when they go to hospital.

Neil Melon, gave a talk on THE FOOD BANK. Mothers Union gave parcels of food to them at Christmas from the Advent Service.

Joining in with the Global Moment

On Friday 25.11.16, The International day for the elimination of violence against women, we joined with others across the world to pray and light candles.

Day of Prayer for our Links Diocese 23.7.16

Festival service with Rt Revd Libby Lane, Bishop of Stockport

It was wonderful for the island to welcome the Rt Revd Libby Lane Bishop of Stockport to preach at our festival service on 29.4.16. Our own Bishop Robert presided. Many thanks to members of the Cathedral choir who were able to attend and clergy from across the island giving their support.

Meeting our new CEO 10.3.16

What a joy and privilege it was to meet our new CEO Bev Jullien and to hear about amazing work that MU is doing across the world and her thought about the future of MU.

Here is a picture of Bev Jullien, Marian Pope and our trustees who met together for training

Advent Service 1.12.15

Advent service at St. Paul’s Ramsey with some of the congregation and gifts for the women’s refuge.

Kirk Michael Nov. 2015

Kirk Michael Mothers Union now meet in the new Church room.
The evening group met to make Christmas Boxes to hold After Eight Mints, led by Valerie Convery. These show them concentrating on making followed by the finished articles.

Bunting for Burundi 28.2.15

We had such a good time together at the sea terminal and have so many great photos! Thank you so much to everyone who helped to make it look great with all that bunting you made!! All the games, quizzes, different activities, food, that you all helped to produce meant that all the children,  parents, grandparents and great grand parents that were there all had such a good time. Well done everyone!! And a big thank you to Alex Brown and friends for helping us to shift the furniture and put up the bunting.

New Links Dioceses Service 29.1.15

Advent Carol Service Port Erin 2014

Cake decorating at Marown

Kirk Michael Festival of Trees

Peel Branch Fundraiser

Peel branch’s Soup, Sandwich and Sing Christmas lunch fundraiser we held on the 10th December.  We had lunch with background music played on the piano by Dr Peter Litman, musical director of the Cathedral, and then carols following the food.

IOM Charity Challenge

Founder’s Day Service

It was really good to meet together from across the diocese at St. Matthew’s, Douglas for our Founder’s Day Service.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who helped Peel branch raise £309 at their Sandwich, Soup and Serenade fundraiser. They had a great time and had lots of nice comments, especially regarding the piano music in the background from Dr Peter Litman, Clive Davenport and Tim Asbridge.

       Quiet Day

On Tuesday 15th October those pictured above were blessed to be present at our  Quiet Day with our Chaplain Rev. Canon Paul Mothersdale at St. Mark’s, our theme was ‘The Waiting Place of God’.

Mums & Babies in Zambia

Diocese of Sodor & Man Harvest project 2013. Liz and Barbara handing over a cheque to Paul for £500 from the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal for Mums and Babies in Zambia.

Marown 90th Birthday Celebration

Marown branch celebrated their 90th birthday  on Thursday 12th Sept. 2013 with an afternoon tea at Marown Church Hall. Members from other branches put on their best hats and frocks and joined in the fun! There was 20’s style entertainment, a lovely old fashioned tea with individual trifles and cakes on stands.

Communion service and Faith Supper

The West and South Joint Mission Partnership held a Corporate Communion service and Faith Supper on 4th September at Marown.

Creche get together 17th July  

We were delighted to have Alison Gomme the Prison Govenor and Keith Burns one of the dog handlers with us for the evening. Alison expressed the prison’s thanks for all that Mothers’ Union does at the prison and Keith told us and demonstrated what the dogs can do. A great time of enjoying delicious food, sharing ideas for ways to improve what we are doing, hearing updates about Security, Big Book Share & Family Days.

Wed June 12th AGM at Bath

A group of Manx and Irish members at the AGM in Bath.

Commissioning of President for York Province

A group from the island were delighted to be able to attend the commissioning of Barbara Taylor as the President of York Province at York Minster on Friday 17th May, 2013. See more photos on our facebook page 

Festival Service 10th May 2013

A wonderful evening of worship and celebration as our new Trustees were commissioned into their new roles. We were blessed to have Bishop Robert preaching and Barbara Taylor our Provincial President with us for the weekend. It was a great joy to receive our new Diocesan Banner from four members of the Embroiders Guild who had stitched the banner. See more pictures and information about our new banner in Our Banners section of the website.

Sharing Evening with Marion Pope

On Friday 19th April, 2013 we had a good evening with Marion thinking about the work of Mothers Union to help transform families and communities. We were reminded of the three pronged strategy of Praying, Enabling and Campaigning. 

We spent most of the time thinking and sharing about how we can help to transform families and communities here on the island, and how we can grow our organisation.

Rev. Paul becomes Canon

Congratulations to our Chaplain Rev Paul Mothersdale, Vicar of Malew and Santon, who on Sunday 10th March 2013, became a member of the Cathedral Chapter when he was installed as residentiary Canon in the seat of St Columba.

Bishop Michael Burrows from our linked diocese of Cashel and Ossory gave a cracking sermon about the mysteries and significance of traditional church ceremonies, and the serious responsibilities of the role of a Canon.

Worship music was led by the Cathedral Choir and Choristers, and the Abbey Church Choir, Ballasalla. Thanks to Orry Mitchell for the photo of Canon Colin Finney, Warden of Readers; Mrs Jackie Mothersdale, Paul Mothersdale, Bishop Robert and Canon Peter Robinson.

World Wide Council

Helen Parry, our immediate past President is now a Mothers’ Union general trustee and so she and Pat our new Diocesan President have recently attended World Wide Council. The photo below shows Helen and Pat with some other MU members who were at the council meeting and the list includes their role or the name of the country they live in.

Lynne, World Wide President; Helen, Trustee; Libbie, Australia; Helen, Mozambique; Frida, Zambia; Mugisa, DRCongo; Pat, Sodor & Man; Real, Kenya; Sherann, Guyana.

Charity Challenge

Many thanks to our IOM College team for all their hard work in preparing for their presentation. The presentation was really good well done. Thank you for earning us another £500 towards the Malawi appeal.

Teabags at the Terminal

We had a wonderful time drumming, decorating boxes which we used to build a house, tried tastes of Malawi, wrote messages on a graffiti wall & Facebook, did quizzes and jigsaws, with lots of different families. We raised £455 which was great and it was so good to share about Mothers’ Union and the Malawi project with people who knew nothing about MU. You can see lots more photos on our Facebook page Mothers’ Union Isle of Man.

 Advent Carol Service

The theme of the service was ‘Looking for Light’ and the beauty of the lighting and artistic creations in the Cathedral added to the worship experience.

  Sponsored swim

Caroline completed her 100 lengths of Ramsey Swimming pool.

And a lovely time was had by all at Waterloo Road Methodist Church Ramsey sharing tea and birthday cake.

Total of money raised by swim and cakes just over £900

  Floral Demonstration, St John’s.

Members and friends packed St John’s Methodist Church on Thursday evening, 15^th November and thoroughly enjoyed a flower arranging demonstration by David Rushton. David worked his usual magic to produce some beautiful floral arrangements, these were then raffled at the end of the evening and £500 was raised for the Malawi Literacy and Finance Project.Many thanks must go to the members of Patrick with Dalby and Foxdale for arranging the evening, and the wonderful supper, to David of course, and to all those who attended the fundraiser.

Provincial Service, Manchester.

Mothers’ Union members from the island attended the Provincial Service at Manchester Cathedral on the 8th November. It was lovely for them to see Lynne Tembey, presently York Provincial President and Worldwide President elect and Barbara Taylor who is presently Diocesan President  for Manchester Diocese and Provincial President elect for York.

             Cathedral Meal with Con Brio

The Cathedral branch of the MU hosted a Meal and Music Evening on 5th October. It included a wonderful 3-course meal and music provided by Con Brio String Quartet. A travel voucher for a car and 2 passengers was auctioned, donated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. The evening raised £2000 for the Malawi Fund (for education) and Barclays Bank will match the amount by up to £750.

Kirk Michael Jubilee 18th Sept.2012

        Jubilee Tea 13th Sept. 2012

Everyone had a lovely time and best of all £930 was raised for the Malawi project. Well done everone who worked so hard to make it such a success. Thank you.

               Vision Day 14th July 2012

Baptism on the Beach 2012

It was wonderful to meet up with other MU members from around the island and other friends from across the churches to share in the act of baptism at Peel on Sunday 27th May with the Archbishop of York.

Praying the Keeills Week 2012

MU members shared in the annual Praying the Keeills week. Find out more at www.prayingthekeeills.org

Quiet Day at St. Stephen’s Sulby 14th May 2012

A peaceful quiet day was had by all who were able to join us for our annual Quiet Day, this year led by the Archdeacon Revd Andie Brown.

Festival Service at St. John’s Royal Chapel Monday 26th March 2012

We had a super time of prayer, worship, fellowship, networking, thank you to everyone who played a part.

Advent Carol Service at Kirk Maugold on 4th Dec. 2011

We are very grateful to Nigel Cretney who officiated, to Revd Canon Phillip Gillespie who preached and to the organist Jean James who enabled us to sing advent carols and hymns. Bible readings and prayers were read by members from across the island. We were also delighted to share with women from the Women’s Institute,  Methodist Women in Britain and the Catholic Women’s Guild.

Mothers’ Union exhibition Aug. 8th-31st 2011 at the Cathedral in Peel.

The exhibition celebrated the 102nd anniversary of the Peel branch of the Mothers’ Union. The exhibition in the cathedral took six months to arrange and organise. It included 12 different stations, Mothers’ Union banners by the four mission partnership areas in the island, artefacts associated with MU in the treasury and stalls. Helen Parry, diocesan president, said: ‘I would encourage everyone to come and see the exhibition. It values the history, but also they can see the modern outlook. Particularly with our school campaign. I think they will be surprised.’ Some of the stations include Peel Branch history, children and families and marriage: loving for life.

Evening with Grainne Burns at Braddan on 14th June 2011 with Strawberries &  Wine/Shloer

A very interesting evening was spent hearing about the work of the island’s Youth Service. We heard how they use virtual babies to teach young people about how to look after babies both on Baby Sitting Courses and with teenage mothers to be. We also enjoyed the tasty strawberries and cream and a glass of Shloer!! The evening was organised as a follow up to MU buying virtual babies for our secondary schools and the IOM College in 2005 anyone remember being at this presentation?

Quiet Day at Castletown on 19th May 2011 with Rev’d Peter Robinson

A time of quiet reflection on the Book of Ruth – a story of faithfulness and love, and silence.

Royal Wedding Afternoon Tea at Braddan 28th April 2011.

A wonderful time was had by all who attended and a staggering £944.50 was raised, well done everyone.

This Wedding Cake on display at the afternoon tea was sold for a local wedding celebration. Raising money for the work of Mothers’ Union.

Launch of Big Book Share

at Prison Family Day on Wednesday 20th April, 2011

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the 165 pairs of books that we have for use in the Big Book Share. Books continue to be gratefully received.

Faith in Action Spring Fayre Ramsey,

Saturday 16th April, 2011 Thank you to everyone who helped on the stall it was good to be there and chat to people about Mothers’ Union.

Festival Service, 26th March 2011

at St. German’s Cathedral, Peel.Speaker Roberta McElvery Mothers’ Union Central Trustee.