It was a pleasure to mark the 100th birthday of our member, David, this Sunday and a joy that he was joined by members of his family on this special day.
Congratulations, David, and happy birthday!
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday 6th February for and evening enterainment and food… and thank you for braving the wet weather to make it such a successful evening.
Thank you to all the musicians who gave their talents free for the evening and to everyone who helped prepare and decorate the church, cooked and baked, served refreshments, acted as stewards and guides during the evening and cleared up afterwards.
The Craft Club and friends held a very successful Jigsaw Festival and sheet music sale at church on 3rd May 2025.
This event launched our fund-raising appeal to support the planned redevelopment work in our sanctuary and realised over £1300. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to prepare for the event – for the donations of jigsaws and to those who completed them ready for the display and sale. Thanks, too, to everyone who made cakes and lunches and, of course, to all who bought jigsaws!
It was a special day of presentations on Sunday 16th February when Zoe was presented with the URC Lundie Award by the Moderator of the East Midlands Synod, the Rev’d Geoffrey Clarke. (This national award celebrates the good work an individual child or young person is doing for their church and community.)
Also, our member Bob L was presented with a URC certificate recognising loyal and devoted service to acknowledge his significant contribution to the the church (in many roles including Elder; Property Manager; Scout, Duty Team and the Stroke Club leader) over many decades.
Congratulations to all our children and young people who presented a wonderful performance of the stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jnr at St Andrew’s with Castle Gate on Saturday 6th July. The acting and singing was extremely well received by an appreciative audience and we thank everyone who supported this event. We thank also, all those who worked hard on the day and before to support the Junior Church in this production.
Thank you to everyone supported the Junior Church Camp this year.
The children and young people had an excellent time at Walesby, enjoying their activities (including rafting, archery and rounders), their meals and barbecue and time to worship together on Sunday morning.
Thank you, especially to all the Junior Church Leaders who planned and attended camp.
Thank you so much to everyone whose time and preparation contributed to such a wonderful time of worship for our Harvest Festival this year.
The service, which was led by members of our Junior Church and Youth Group was thoughtfully constructed, imaginatively presented and very well delivered by our young people. We thank them and their leaders very much indeed.
We also thank our flower arranging team for creating such wonderful displays of flowers and harvest produce and everyone who brought harvest gifts to present.
The harvest goods have been donated to The Friary in West Bridgford to support their work with those struggling with homelessness.
Thank you to all the instrumentalists for their wonderful playing to support our singing of carols in the courtyard at church on Sunday evening – a great sing!
Thank you, also, to everyone who provided, prepared and served our refreshments.
The Junior Church celebrated twenty years of Junior Church Shows with a concert performance of favourite items selected from the musicals theur have presented over the last twenty years.
Thank you to all our young people who performed so well and thank you, also, to those of our previous casts who we able to join us to help “compere” the show or create videos to introduce items and reflect on their “time in the spotlight”.
