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‘THANK YOU’ for your unique and vital contribution to the life of the United Reformed Church, and for the work of the kingdom which we are able to do together in God’s name

We are living through an extraordinary and challenging time – a very anxious time for everyone; a difficult time for many; and a time of suffering and loss […]

Please take the time to read the letter from URC Treasurer Ian Hardie and Deputy Treasurer John Piper. Linked here.

Locally your church has suffered a substantial loss of income from lettings following the period of lockdown and even as we allow some activities to resume we will not be able to make up the losses or indeed restore our […]

After a three week break, it is good to be back thinking about the way life is changing and we are confronted with new ways of being together. A big thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings in the middle of August – I had a great time and have a new pile of books to devour over the coming months. I have also been reading qu […]

Don’t call us migrantsCall us pilgrimsAnd prayThat we might fatherA new nation

We are not aliensWe are AbrahamWho smelled on the windA different futureAnd slept in tentsTo dream of its arrivalOur fragile craftIs more than just a dinghyIt is a MayflowerA vessel of hopeDelivering the desperateTo their destiny

We who flee persec […]

I know a number of us listen to Radio 4 Sunday morning service so I expect you heard the service on Sunday 30 at which a young person read the parable of the great and well regarded invited to the Lord’s party. As we all know they all declined the invitation and ultimately that invitation was issued instead to all the disadvantaged the […]