A prayer on the day that the pandemic has claimed more than 100,000 lives in the UK Lay preacher Karen Smith writes: If, like me, you feel you need a time of quiet and prayer at the news that more than 100,000 people have died from COVID19, here is a prayer written by John Birch […]
Sunday, 24th January – Listening Prayerfully This Sunday we welcomed Lay Preacher Anna Crawford to lead our worship. Anna chose a reading from the book of Acts, in which those engaged in prayer don’t recognise the answer to their prayer! The service includes hymns and prayers encouraging us to Listen Prayerfully. Many thanks to our […]
Sunday, 17th January – Something Good Can Come from Nazareth Welcome to Sunday worship with the churches of Fleet URC and Beacon Hill URC. Today we were delighted to welcome the Revd John Whitton once again to lead worship for us. John reflected on the reading from the Gospel of John focusing on the call […]
Morning Worship for Sunday, 10th January – The Baptism of Jesus Welcome to Sunday worship with the churches of Fleet URC and Beacon Hill URC. Lay preacher Karen Smith led our service today. Following on from last week’s service, when we considered the gifts of the Magi that point to the nature of the life […]
Morning Worship for Sunday, 3rd January – Epiphany, with Holy Communion A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you!! In our service for this Sunday, Lay Preacher Karen Smith reflects on the visit of the Wise Men, as Epiphany is celebrated in the coming week. There are some carols to hear, sing and enjoy as we […]
Morning Worship for Sunday 27th December – The Sunday after Christmas We were pleased to welcome the General Assembly Moderator, the Reverend Clare Downing, to lead our worship on Sunday. On this Sunday after Christmas the Gospel reading tells of Mary going to the Temple with the baby Jesus and Clare reflects how both young […]
Sunday Worship for 20th December 2020 – A Service of Readings and Carols Today, the fourth Sunday in Advent, we welcome you as Karen Smith and Tom Dean from Beacon Hill URC lead us in a Service of Readings and Carols and the lighting of the fourth candle on our Advent wreath. We gather together […]
We had great fun this morning as we assembled our Christingles together on our live Zoom service, and thought of Christ’s light coming into our world. Here are some of the Christingles we produced:
Sunday Worship for 13th December 2020: Christingle Today, the third Sunday in Advent, we continued our journey ‘On the Road to Bethlehem‘ in our Christingle service led by Lay Preacher, Karen Smith, with the lighting of the third candle on our Advent wreath, as it visits different homes in the church community. We had great […]
Sunday, 29th November 2020 – Advent 1: ‘On the Road to Bethlehem’ Unfortunately we were unable to record our service for the first Sunday in Advent, which was hosted live on the Zoom platform; however you can now listen to the hymn, ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’ and the Reflection and Blessing on the tabs […]
