Redhill URC

People with disabilities don’t want special treatment. They just want to be treated like everyone else. As the Paralympics begin in the coming week, we honour and celebrate the determination and courage of those competing. In days past, any disability was seen as shameful, as punishment for sin committed. Even today, some able-bodied p […]

After the joy of the Olympics, this week has given the world some stark news. July was earth’s hottest month ever. Ahead of the conference looking at what governments can do to cut emissions and get the world back on a course of renewal, turning the policies of generations around to reduce the climate emergency, we are warned that we d […]

In the June issue I referred to items covering Pentecost in 1988 about the formation of Redhill URC. Among those were articles from the 26th May 1988 edition of the Surrey Mirror which included histories of the formation of both Chapel Road and Shaw’s Corner churches. We already have a History of the Shaw’s Corner Church written by o […]

As I write today, parts of the USA and Canada are experiencing a terrific and terrifying heatwave. Temperatures close to 50C have been experienced in what people are saying is unbearable heat, not to mention the fires and the damage this weather has done to the fruit and vegetable harvests. Usually that part of the world gets high temper […]

David Pipe

David at the age of 15 became the church organist at Redhill URC following the retirement of Robert Wadey. There were one or two concerns because he was so young but there proved to be no problems. Robert had been very kind to David, encouraging him in playing the organ and gradually increasing his skills, gradually increas […]