Our Harvest windows this year depicted places that are very special to members of the congregation.
Thank You, Bernard
After morning service on 12 September 2010 the church family gathered together to celebrate Bernard Potter’s retirement from the office of Church Secretary after 28 years of dedicated service. The Minister paid tribute to Bernard’s commitment, loyalty, attention to detail, and his pastoral care for the whole church family throughout those years. He presented Bernard […]
80th Birthday Celebration
Everyone was invited to enjoy a special celebration cake after morning worship on Sunday 22 August to mark the 80th birthday of Gloria Edward, who is our longest-serving member.
Church Pilots Support Zimbabwe
Pilots challenged people who came to our church garden party to fill in their ‘Zimbabwe’ sign with 10p coins and to guess how much money it would take to complete it. The correct answer was £23.60, and this sum was donated to our Commitment for Life partner, Zimbabwe.
Our 98th Anniversary Celebration
On Sunday 18th July we celebrated the 98th birthday of our church. Our morning worship was led by the Revd Roberta Rominger, General Secretary of the United Reformed Church, who talked about the image we present to the outside world. She spoke movingly of the commitment and outreach of many of our churches who are […]
Labyrinth
Our Bible Study and Prayer Evening on Thursday 17th June 2010 focussed on the Prayer Labyrinth. This was my first experience of a Prayer Labyrinth, and I sincerely hope not my last. Never have I experienced an evening of prayer like it. There were twenty stations marked out for us to follow in the church […]
Memories of Oberammergau 2010 (Part 1)
“Towards the end of the thirty years war there was an outbreak of the plague in Bavaria. The elders of the village of Oberammergau, in an effort to protect their village, decided to seal it off from outside contact. However an itinerant worker returned, bringing the plague with him, and it swept through the village. […]
Coffee at Elvetham Hall
A change of scenery for the Thursday coffee morning, when members and friends met at Elvetham Hall instead of the church:
Pilots at Warwick Castle
On Saturday 15th May the Pilots Group from Fleet URC, together with other church friends and their families, travelled to Warwick to join other Pilots groups from all over Britain, to spend an exciting day at Warwick Castle. The day started and ended with a short act of worship, when we thought about our theme […]
Congratulations to Meg!
Heartiest congratulations to Meg Nicholson, on her commissioning as a lay preacher. Meg was commissioned by Synod Lay Preacher Commissioner Sydney Shore, during morning service on Sunday 14 February 2010. Previously she was a local preacher in the Methodist Church for over 20 years.