So here we are, the United Reformed Church! Only we were never meant to reach this milestone. The great hope in creating the URC was that churches would learn how to do the process, how to have the conversations, so the other churches could join in in a great snowball effect. What we actually learnt […]
In May, Jamie and I joined a party of URC people, led by Michael Hopkins, to see the Oberammergau Passion Play. The play was devised as an act of thanksgiving by the village of Oberammergau after they were spared from the Plague in 1633, and has been performed every 10 years since 1680. It was […]
In April, Revd Maggie Hindley spent a month with CPT in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Maggie’s reports on their work, witnessing to the daily deprivations of the Palestinian people, were circulated by email and on the church notice boards. Maggie also sent us this prayer for Hebron, written by the first foreigner to […]
Dear Friends, Last week, writing for the Ealing magazine, I commented on the warm Spring weather. Today it’s snowing! But we are past the equinox, the clocks have changed, and the evenings are longer and lighter. We have forsythia in the garden, and neighbourhood trees are thick with blossom. When there is so much trouble […]
Dear friends, At the start of 2021 we were filled with hope. Nothing could be as challenging as the previous year…. could it? The miracle of the vaccination programme was beginning to be rolled out. Life would return to normal before too long. But, of course, it wasn’t until Easter that some churches re-opened and […]
Pictured: some of the congregation at our 2021 Harvest Festival. We had 2 full tables of produce which went to the Salvation Army in Greenford.
In July this year, I was privileged to be one of the Thames North Synod reps at General Assembly. I found it impressive. Last year, faced with Covid, GA was simply cancelled. A year on, the URC has embraced technology and, with the considerable help of the tech wizards in URC Youth, moved the whole […]
We are now in Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday and Easter. We have two special services, by Zoom, to mark this week. On Maundy Thursday, 1st April, at 7pm, we will follow through the story of Holy Week using readings from Mark’s gospel. When we get to the Last Supper, we shall […]
Reflection – Palm Sunday, given by Revd Sue McCoan This week marked one year since the start of the first lockdown, and there have been many recaps and reflections over what the year has brought. One of the abiding images, for me, has been the footage of Covid patients who have been in intensive care, […]
I hope you are keeping well. Following recent elders’ meetings in both churches, St Andrew’s and Wembley Park are planning to resume worship in church on Easter Sunday, 4th April. For anyone not able to get to church at Wembley Park, it will be possible to connect into the service from St Andrew’s by […]
