“A prison cell in which the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, isn’t a bad picture of Advent”. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison Imagine Imagine a room. The doors and windows are locked. Voices echo around the room. Hopes and fears. Waiting, hoping. A room. The world’s space. […]
Recently one of our members gave us the white envelope with our name on it, asking us to write what/why we came to City URC. Well, recently, I had the chance to write my story of how I came back to Christianity and it was because of City URC. At The Gathering last year, we […]
World Religion Day, January 15th. Kirsty Abbott who led our service here on that day reminded us that at the heart of all faiths there is a Golden Rule. It finds expression in different ways, within faith traditions, summed up in the words always treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself. Simple […]
I would like to thank City URC and highlight that I am both delighted and honoured to be supported with such generosity. This will allow me to achieve my dreams and make Maudelias foundation a reality. I hope to work hard to give back to others in the same manner I have been blessed through […]
Almost 17 years since l left Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe is finally over. I’m stunned, perplexed. Here we are in a country that is ‘Mugabe-less’ for the first time in 37 years. It’s extraordinary. I have mixed emotions and feelings. As you are aware l lost my Dad and could not attend the funeral, maybe with […]
I was invited to write an article for the magazine and I would love to tell you about the Saturday FAN Group that meets in URC and invite you to come and meet us. Have you heard of FAN Groups? FAN stands for Friends and Neighbours? Who is my friend? Who is my neighbour? A […]
1 Kings 1: 15 – 31 So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. The king was very old, and Abishag from Shunem was serving the king. Bathsheba bowed down on her face before the king. The king asked, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Your Majesty, you swore by the Lord […]
2 Samuel 11 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of […]
Ruth 2 Now Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, a prominent rich man, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, ‘Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain, behind someone in whose sight I may find favour.’ She said to her, […]
Ruth 1.1-18 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the […]
