Redhill URC

The history of Christianity is a story full of adventure, comfort, battle and peace. On the one hand there are those who experience the faith as a source of consolation and encouragement, personal and private; and on the other hand some see it as a challenge to convince others of its rightness and opposition to the way of the world, publ […]

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 […]

This week I met a lady who has been in prison for 18 years and is delighted to be moving on to open prison regulations which means she will be allowed out for specific activities. I discovered she is an excellent artist. She was one of 6 women who created a superb sculpture which greets visitors to HMP Send in Bisley. Recently she create […]

In the Old Testament book of Numbers 14: 33 God tells Moses that the children of Israel will “wander in the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness”. So in the current coronavirus crisis there are people who are suffering and lost in their own wilderness of lockdown and government restrictions. Those that do not […]