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We worship at 11 am
every Sunday and normally
have a communion service on the first Sunday of every
month.
worship
As a small congregation, we aim to extend a warm welcome to visitors from near and far, and everyone is welcome to all our services. We aim to be thoughtful, inclusive and outward-looking, and our worship was described a few years ago by an outside 'mystery worshipper' as 'cheery and inspiring' and also 'quiet and contemplative'.
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Forthcoming services - Preachers
JANUARY
SUNDAYS 11AM
Sunday 29th
Revd Geoffrey Roper
When England’s Church was torn apart 1662 – 2012
What
does it mean to us 350 years later?
FEBRUARY
Sunday 5th Revd Geoffrey Roper
- Holy Communion - Healing the Past – Building the Future
The United Reformed Church and the Church of England draw closer
together
The above two services have a common theme in
the sense that one begins from the split of 1662 whose 350th anniversary is
this year and the second is the move towards healing it.If you would like to
read the full article please use the link below
 tp://www.urc.org.uk/what_we_do/mission_council/docs/may_2011/god_s_reign_and_our_unity
Churches Together Lent
Course 2012
Wednesdays at 10.00
am to 1.00pm 29th February to 28th March inclusive
The Way to Freedom
1 What is
Christian Freedom and why is it different?
Sunday worship February 26
Meeting February 29
2 Stations on the Way to Freedom: Discipline
Sunday worship March 4
Meeting March 7
3 Stations on the Way to Freedom: Action
Sunday worship March 11
Meeting March 14
4 Church as Community
Sunday worship March 18 (Mothering Sunday)
Meeting March 21
5 Stations on the Way to Freedom: Suffering
Sunday worship March 25 (Passion Sunday)
Meeting March 28
6 Stations on the Way to Freedom:
Death
Sunday worship April 1(Palm Sunday)
Good Friday witness April 6
The course is inspired by thoughts of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945).
Participants may wish to read some of his writing
[Cost of] Discipleship, Life
Together, Letters and Papers from Prison or a book about him
Bonhoeffer and Britain.
Four of the
sessions are suggested by the four stanzas of his poem
Stages on the Way to Freedom:
‘Discipline’,
‘Action’, ‘Suffering’, ‘Death’.
Easter Monday this year is the 67th anniversary of
Bonhoeffer’s execution in a Nazi prison.
The course is not, however, a study programme on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It
focuses on the freedom the Christian enjoys and the freedoms we reject.
Addressing unpopular themes such as discipline, suffering and death, it asks
how these which seem the opposite of human freedom are the places where
Christ sets us free.
Fellowship
We meet for friendship and fellowship round a
cafe table each Wednesday lunchtime. Our Wednesday study sessions run for stated
periods and are joint with other nearby churches.
From time to time we also hold other services and other events, for instance an ecumenical course during Lent 2009, an Gaelic-English service to commemorate our original founding in December 2008; see News and Notices
Lumen United Reformed Church for any current plans.
For details of all our services, please contact us by
email: info@lumen.org.uk |
