Dear Friends At the beginning of October, the first Get-Together of the South Missional Partnership churches was held at Hollinshead Street URC, Chorley, kindly organised by Daleen ten Cate, the Lancashire Mission & Discipleship Mentor. Each church was invited to speak for 5-7 minutes about their current mission projects. Chorley spoke about ‘Hollies’ charity shop […]
September-October 2018 Newsletter
SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2018 Dear Friends Following on from the launch of our Missional Partnerships on Pentecost Sunday, an event has been arranged in each Missional Partnership Area. For our Area this will be held on Saturday 6th October 2018 from 10:00am to 13:00pm at Chorley United Reformed Church. It is hoped that this event […]
January – February 2018 Newsletter
Dear 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 […]
September – October 2017 newsletter
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
September – October 2016 Newsletter
PASTORAL LETTER SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2016 Dear Friends In the last edition of the Newsletter we included the letter from the NW Moderator regarding Future Patterns of Ministry and the current difficulties in provision of ministry. I received a further letter at the beginning of August, following the 8 Roadshows around the 4 Synod Areas, […]
July-August 2016 newsletter
Pastoral 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 […]