Pandemic Prayer Dear Friends, this week’s pandemic prayer has now been loaded up to the URC website and you can see it here. It can be used in personal and public worship. with every good wish Andy The Rev’d Andy BraunstonCo-ordinator, Daily Devotions from the URC

St Luke 6: 27 – 36‘But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,  bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.  If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold …

The Service on Sunday 23 January will be led by Mr Mark Dennis (Trinity Elder & Lay Preacher). Join us for the third in a series of services exploring six questions that God put to people in the Old Testament.  God puts these questions to us as well; and we will try to discern what …

A basic First Aid course has been arranged for Tuesday 1 March from 7pm-10pm in the Mansel Road Centre. The course is open to anyone who would like to learn or refresh their basic First Aid knowledge. If you have a specific role in the Church working face to face with people, it would be …

St Luke 6: 17 – 26He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those …

Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas collections for Crisis, the national charity for homeless people.  The final total, including Gift Aid, is £1,375 – a great result.  Last year’s figure was £1,000.

St Luke 6: 12 – 16Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, …

St Luke 6: 6 – 11On another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him.  Even though he knew what …

URC Daily Devotions Sunday Service16th January 2022 John Ellis  Introduction Welcome to this online worship, whoever you are and wherever you are accessing it. Using a Lectionary reading for Sunday 16th January, this material aims to help you feel in the presence of God today even if you are not able to be physically in the presence …

Saturday 15th January 2022  St Luke 6: 1 – 5 One sabbath while Jesus was going through the cornfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.  But some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?’  Jesus answered, ‘Have you …