Wigston Magna Methodist Church

Wigston Magna Methodist Church
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We, the Christian family at Wigston Magna Methodist Church, welcome you.

If you’re taking the first step on the journey to faith, don’t hesitate – join us!

If you need a new church home, come and share!

If you are curious about Jesus, who he was and is, what he did and does, then please join us!

Young and old, new to Faith or new to this part of Leicester, we at Wigston Magna Methodist Church welcome YOU!

Wigston Magna Methodist Church
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Our Church

It’s quite a surprise, not what we expected!

Often this is the response of people visiting us for the first time. Behind the Victorian red brick exterior is a modern church interior, it’s light and bright and open, where we worship ‘in-the-round’.

In a way the church building is a symbol of the Wigston Magna church family. It’s important to us that we bring together the traditional and the contemporary.

Our Minister

Revd Jean Quick
Minister

Jean was born in Birmingham and felt the call there of Jesus Christ in her teenage years.

She joined the WRAF in her late teens and has served the Military in many different ways over a number of years, beginning her military life as a telephonist and Jeremiah 33 verse 3 was her call sign! Call to me, and I will answer you; and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. (NIV)

She is passionate about Scuba diving, underwater photography and Marine Conservation.

Methodist ministry began for Jean, as a Wesley Deaconess, at the Nottingham Albert Hall. She then moved to North Wales and from there to Rheindahlen, Germany, where she served as a chaplains’ assistant. This was the church from which she candidated for the Ministry, so it was a delight to go back. After three years she offered for the Presbyteral Ministry and served in the Amersham Circuit and the Camberley, Aldershot and Farnborough Circuit. The call of the sea (or something?) took her to the Thanet Circuit where she served as a superintendent before travelling once more to St Andrews Church, Rheindahlen, this time to serve as a Community Chaplain. Sadly, the Church closed in her time there due to the movement of troops in Germany, so she went to work at Paderborn Garrison. It is from here, in September 2009, Jean came to be the minister of Wigston Magna Methodist Church and to serve in the Leicester Trinity Circuit.

Jean also serves on the Methodist Forces Board and acts as the Local Preachers’ tutor for Methodists serving with the armed forces overseas.

Jean’s Master’s degrees focussed on ‘Rites of Passage’ and ‘Utilising the skills of lay people in the Ministry of the church’. These were chosen because, throughout all her years of ministry, Jean’s interest has been in the pastoral aspects of ministry and in helping lay people to discover and use their skills, whatever they may be.