Hosted by Colin and Liz McClune, our Burns Supper this year proved as popular as ever, and tickets sold out weeks beforehand. Following the traditional meal of haggis, tatties and neeps, Colin gave the address to the Immortal Memory and Liz gave a delightful performance of two of Burns’ songs. The evening concluded with some […]
Burns Supper 2014 – More Photos
More photos taken at this year’s Burns Supper:
Windermere Online Festival 2014: Church in the Digital Age
The Windermere Centre Online Festival is on all this week. It’s a great chance to access lots of free online content from the Centre. Here is a chance to try living out in new ways what it might mean to be church in the digital age. To find out more, go to their webpage: http://windermere.urc.org.uk/windermere-online/
A Covenant with God
In our first service of the New Year we were invited to join in the Methodist Covenant Prayer: I am no longer my own, but yours. Your will, not mine, be done in all things, Wherever you may place me, in all that I do and in all that I may endure: when there is […]
Christmas Day Service – Photos
Our Christmas Day service was led by Mrs Helen Everard:
Children make their Christingles
Our children with the Christingles they made for the Christingle and carol service before Christmas:
Christingle Service
Our Minister led our Christingle and Carol Service on the evening of 22 December. The day before, several volunteers got together to assemble 100 Christingles ready for the service. The Moravian Church has held Christingle services for over two hundred years. This is what the Christingles represent: The orange represents the world: “It’s rounded like […]
Four New Members
On Sunday 15 December we were delighted to receive Margot Cooper, Tamyra Sherratt and Alan & Evelyn Tyler into membership at Fleet URC. Congratulations, and a warm welcome to you all: Revd Ruth Dillon with (top) Margot Cooper, and (bottom) Alan & Evelyn Tyler and Tamyra Sherratt.
Website for December/January
www.retreats.org.uk A retreat is exactly what it sounds like – the chance to step aside from life for a while, to rest and just ‘be’ in a welcoming, peaceful place. Who goes on retreat? Retreats are for ordinary people at any time in their lives. There are no expectations on anyone going on retreat, and […]
Prayer for December/January
For Christian who are Catholic or Protestant, Christmas Day itself is the focus for prayer and celebration at Christmas time. Christians of the Orthodox Church (such as in Russia and Greece) have a quiet celebration on Christmas Day, but have the Epiphany (6 January) as their main day of prayer and celebration at Christmas time. […]