On the afternoon of Saturday 1 October 2022, in Methodist Central Hall Westminster, London, where the Uniting Assembly of the URC took place in October 1972, a chance to give thanks and to celebrate the five decades of the United Reformed Church. Several venues, including United Reformed Church House, local URCs and buildings of ecumenical […]
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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 […]
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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.
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Dear Friends, I hope you had a good summer. At the end of September, on the way to church, I had to cross the route of the Ealing Half-Marathon. We had been warned well in advance about road closures on the day, but I had reckoned that, on a bicycle, I could always wheel the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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