The United Reformed Church has expressed its sadness at the passing of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and, on its website, has shared a reflection and prayer along with Bible passages chosen for this time in the life of our nation.
This page on the URC website may be found HERE.
Our video service of worship for Sunday, 11th April 2021, may be found on YouTube HERE.
N.B. This recording will not be available until shortly before 11:00 am on Sunday – prior to this, it will show the video as being unavailable and “private”.
Order of Service: HERE
The video and those of previous weeks’ services may be found on the Recordings of Services page of this website.
Our video service of Reflections and Music for Good Friday, may be found on YouTube HERE.
N.B. This recording will not be available until shortly before 7:30 pm on Good Friday – prior to this, it will show the video as being unavailable and “private”.
Order of Service: HERE
The video and those of previous weeks’ services may be found on the Recordings of Services page of this website.
All our Holy Week and Easter services were held virtually this year.
Worship for Palm Sunday was led by our drama group, the Goldsmith Players, the members of which videoed monologues/dramatised readings in which characters who witnessed the passion of Jesus Christ reflected on the events and their responses; the minister shared a series of meditations for Holy Week which were distributed using our members mailing system; on Maundy Thursday evening, Ron K led our Tenebrae service live on Zoom; our Zoom channel was also used for our Service of the Nails, led by Mark H at noon on Good Friday; the church choir led a service of Reflections and Music for Good Friday taking The Lamb of God as its theme and on Easter Sunday, our service of worship with Holy Communion was led by our minister.
We are very grateful to all those who planned and prepared worship for us, to all those who took part and to everyone who shared with us on YouTube and Zoom.
The URC is sharing prayers each week during this time of pandemic.
You may read the prayers by opening the links on THIS PAGE.
April 2021:
Covid-19 (last updated on 3rd April 2021)
We wish to continue offering pastoral support to all members of the congregation. Any member of the congregation may contact their Elder if they, or someone they know, may need help in connection with a pastoral need or a practical need – we are here to support each other and do what we can for our communities. Any member of the Secretarial Team may be contacted if your Pastoral Elder is not available.
DO LET US KNOW IF YOU NEED ANY HELP.
We continue to pray for those who are having health difficulties or who have responsibility for taking decisions in relation to this difficult situation.
We have just launched a new “Prayer for the Week” to share on these pages, in our members’ newsletter and on a displayboard outside our church.
You may read our first Prayer for the Week here: standrewswithcastlegate.org.uk/prayer-for-the-week.
Our Anniversary Exhibition was due to be staged in church this weekend but, due to coronavirus restrictions, we decided to create a “virtual” version.
The exhibition is now open and the link to the Exhibition Galleries is HERE.
The evening discussion service led by Rev’d Arlington Trotman was very much appreciated by all those who were able to attend.
You may read a report of the discussions HERE.
Sunday, 6th September 2020, marked the 150th anniversary of our church building on the corner of Goldsmith Street and Chaucer Street in Nottingham.
Plans we had put in place to celebrate together with visiting church friends and civic dignitaries have had to be put on hold as a consequence of restrictins and guidance resulting from the current pandemic, but we celebrated online with a special service of thanksgiving led by our minister, Rev’d Chris Ford. The preacher was Rev’d Geoffrey Clark, Moderator of the East Midlands Synod of the URC.
The video of our service may be found on YouTube HERE.
Order of Service: HERE