Redhill URC

Dear friends,

As I write the papers are saying ‘Christmas is cancelled this year’. What a dreadful thought! And now the recent lockdown makes us worry who can be in our bubble or whether we are going to spend Christmas alone.

Of course, the real Christmas is never cancelled and that is a great relief for the whole world. Like m […]

Like me, I am sure you are well and truly fed up with these lockdowns but for the time being, in order to stay safe and well, it is necessary. But it means we don’t see one another and we are often lonely and isolated. We have a system in the church to keep in touch with everyone through our elders so if you feel you want to speak to s […]

I would like to share with you all what I have been doing during lockdowns to keep myself busy!!!

I have been knitting items for the Neonatal Unit at East Surrey Hospital who are always in need of very small hats, cardigans etc and blankets that fit incubators. This is part of the thank you letter that I have received:-

“Please n […]

I was not surprised to learn that there would be not Post Box this year.

It so happened that I had been reading the latest copy of Godfrey’s R.N.L.I magazine, he has been interested in the RNLI for some time. Once we had a collection box in the shape of a lifeboat. He had also done collecting for them, on one occasion it was ext […]

I’ve sent the cards;I’ve wrapped the gifts;I’ve listened to children sing.It was as though someone other than IWas doing the conventional thing.Each place I stopped had a memory that hurt;Each gaily decked window brought pain.Each Christmas song had lost its joy,But people around me were laughing and gayCelebrating the birth of tha […]