SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017 Dear Friends I was pleased, along with Margery, to be able to attend the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of the Windermere Centre held at Carver URC on 15th July. The Rev Stephen Thornton, who first conceived the idea of the Centre, the three successive Directors – Rev Graham Cooke, […]
July – August 2017 Newsletter
SECRETARY’S LETTER Dear Friends At the North Western Synod meeting at Bamford Chapel in March some important decisions were taken regarding Missional Discipleship. It was agreed that this insight or process should embrace every aspect of the future life and work of the Synod. The Moderator, Rev’d Andrew Mills has written to Church Secretaries (for […]
March-April 2017 Newsletter
PASTORAL LETTER, MARCH – APRIL 2017 The Rev’d David Coaker has kindly offered us the frontispiece from the Leyland and Penwortham URC Newsletters for our Edition. CERTAIN? The theme humanity has chosen for 2017 seems to be uncertainty. The decision made last June has developed from Leave, to Brexit means Brexit, and now its word […]
2017 Archive
January / February 2017 Newsletter
PASTORAL LETTER JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2017 Dear Friends When driving the car, I am usually tuned in to the Classic FM radio station. Since the beginning of December the music played was almost totally focussed on Christmas – with repeated renditions of The Messiah and other oratorios, well-known and not-so-well-known carols, other Christmas songs. Listeners […]
Diary Dates – January/February 2017
January Sun 1st 10:30am Morning Worship The Worship Group Fri 6th 6:45pm Hymn Practice Sun 8th 10:30am 6:30pm Holy Communion Evening Worship Rev John Maiden Mr Mike Prendergast Mon 9th 7:30pm Craft Group Fri 13th 6:45pm […]
November – December 2016 Newsletter
PASTORAL LETTER, SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2016 Dear Friends I have been wondering what to write in this month’s letter for several days. Having attended the Joint Pastorate Elders’ meeting and the October NW Synod, it seems unlikely that a solution to the current and impending ministerial shortage has a short term solution, further, the response […]