Our video service of worship for Sunday, 3rd January 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 postponed 2020 Church AGM will now be a virtual meeting, held on the Zoom platform on Wednesday 27th January, beginning at 7:30 pm.
The first item of business on the agenda will be consideration of resolutions to adopt the URC Rules for Procedure of virtual meetings into our Terms of Reference for Church Meetings, Elders’ and Elders’ Council Meetings . A paper including these resolutions together with PDFs of our Terms of Reference document and the relevant section of the URC Rules of Procedure are available using the links below. Other papers, including the church The Book of Reports 2019 and the Annual Report 2019 (both of which were circulated just before the first “Lockdown” in England) are available to members from the Church Secretary on request, in either digital or print form.
Virtual Meetings resolutions and procedure
January 2021:
Covid-19 (last updated on 3rd January 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.
Our video Carol Service for Sunday, 20th December 2020, may be found on YouTube HERE.
N.B. This recording will not be available until shortly before 11:00 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 offertories over this Christmas season are in aid of the Nottingham Hospice.
The Nottinghamshire Hospice is our chosen Christmas charity this year and you may donate via a bank transfer to the church (using the reference “Hospice”) or visit https://www.nottshospice.org/light/
Thank you.
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
By popular request…
The Ukuleles of St. Andrew’s with Castle Gate United Reformed Church, Nottingham
share their video of “We’ll meet again”
This rendition and the video was made under self-isolating conditions in May 2020 during the week of the 75th anniversary of VE Day.