Dear Friends Last Saturday, whilst the outside world tried to keep cool in the rising heatwave, thirty -five or so lay preachers and worship group members, including Margery and myself, from URC churches across the Lancashire Area tried hard learn from the experts in a course entitled “Worship Basics” The day was arranged by Daleen […]
2019, August, broughton, Fulwood URC, July, Lancashire, Lectionary, Lorraine Ave, Preston, Symonds RoadDear Friends We wish all our members and friends a Happy and Prosperous 2018! Last January, I wrote about the carol “Good King Wenceslas” which I had heard on the radio just once in the long build up to Christmas. It seemed quite some time since we last sung it. I suppose it is not […]
2018, August, broughton, christian, churches, churches together, February, Fulwood, Fulwood URC, FURC, Garstang Road, January, Lancashire, Lectionary, Newsletter, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCPastoral Letter, July-August 2016 Dear Friends As I am writing this letter, there is a great deal happening both locally and nationally, but to start with an introduction to the new URC Logo. For the past six months, the URC’s design team has been working to make the denomination’s visual identity more positive, striking and […]
2016, August, christian, churches together, Fulwood, Garstang Road, July, Lancashire, Lectionary, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCPASTORAL LETTER JULY-AUGUST 2015 Dear Friends In the many Newsletters we receive from other churches, I often admire the quality, variety and content of many of the Pastoral Letters they include and read with interest the messages and challenges they contain. Without having any news about a change in our vacancy situation, and as the […]
2015, August, broughton, christian, church, churches, churches together, Fulwood, Fulwood URC, FURC, Garstang Road, July, Newsletter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCPASTORAL LETTER – JULY-AUGUST 2014 This year, we haven’t has as many birds in our garden as in past years. The other morning I was in our garden and I heard and saw a thrush, and it was probably the same thrush that has entertained us for the last few years. I suspect it has […]
2014, August, broughton, christian, church, churches, churches together, Fulwood, Fulwood URC, FURC, Garstang Road, July, Lectionary, Newsletter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCPASTORAL LETTER JULY – AUGUST 2013 Maybe it’s because of Wimbledon or the holidays or the better weather that the rush of volunteers to write the second Pastoral Letter of our vacancy has been somewhat underwhelming. So here is my combined Vacancy Update and Pastoral Letter. Our Church Meeting in May accepted unanimously the Elders’ […]
2013, August, christian, church, churches, churches together, Fulwood, Fulwood URC, FURC, Garstang Road, July, Lancashire, Lectionary, Newsletter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCDear Friends, The last few weeks have been a hive of activity for me – and it has had nothing to do with either the football or the tennis!! Three weeks ago I set off to the Holy Land, with 24 other Pilgrims from around the UK. Arriving at our Hotel in Jerusalem, feeling […]
2012, August, christian, church, Fulwood, Fulwood URC, FURC, Garstang Road, Helen Higgin-Botham, July, Lancashire, Minister, Minister's letter, Newsletter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCYour word is a lamp to guide me and a light for my path. (Psalm 119:105) Lectionary Readings July & August 2012 July 1st 2 Samuel 1: 1, 17 – 27; Psalm 130 or Lamentations 3: 23 – 33; Psalm 30; 2 Corinthians 8: 7 – 15; St Mark 5: 21 – 43 8th 2 […]
2012, August, church, Fulwood, Fulwood URC, FURC, Garstang Road, July, Lectionary, Newsletter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URCDear Friends, I am writing this after spending four days up at the URC’s ‘Home in the Lakes’, the Windermere Centre. Being June, it’s been Minister’s Summer School – which is not, as some have commented, a ‘jolly’, but rather an intensive time of discernment and learning for URC Ministers and CRCW’s (Church Related Community […]
2011, August, broughton, christian, church, churches, Fulwood URC, Helen Higgin-Botham, July, Lancashire, Minister, Minister's letter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URC, Windermere CentreKING JAMES BIBLE Most readers will, by now, be fully aware that 2011 is the 400th Anniversary of the first authorised translation of the Bible into English. I suspect that most of the family Bibles we still have will be copies of this edition – the King James Bible. King James 1 of England […]
2011, August, broughton, christian, church, churches, Fulwood URC, Garstang Road, Helen Higgin-Botham, July, Lancashire, Newsletter, North West Synod, NW Synod, Preston, Symonds Road, United Reformed Church, URC