Cardiff and Penarth Pastorate Family support Padlet Hello all! We have put together a padlet of activities, from Roots and other sources, to help support families who won’t be able to share in Sunday worship and Junior Church for the coming weeks. You will find the padlet at https://padlet.com/cucsecretary/svf9eo3c4lq5 or scan this QR code At […]
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A letter to members and friends about Coronavirus
Dear friends, City URC church is closed due to Coronavirus. With real sadness the Elders, together with our ministers David and Martha, have decided that we should close the church premises in response to Monday’s Government briefing about the Coronavirus outbreak. All of the groups that hire our premises are being notified about this. All […]
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Church leaders speak together as the UK prepares to leave the EU
The Revd Nigel Uden and Derek Estill, Moderators of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly, have joined leaders and representatives of ten British Church denominations and networks to speak together as the UK prepares to leave the European Union on 31 January. In a joint statement, they say: “Three and a half years after […]
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12 Faces of Hope
Christmas Concert in aid of Shelter Cymru
Advent and Christmas
Join us this Advent and Christmas Sunday 8th December, Gift Service in aid of the Salvation Army 10.30 am Worship with Holy Communion led by Revd David Dean Sunday 15th December, 10.30 am Worship led by Bethan Trott Tuesday 17th December, 6 pm Carol Singing in Bar 33, Windsor Place Sunday 22nd December, 10.30 […]
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Worship during November
Join us this November for a family friendly, open and inclusive Worship. Sunday 3rd November Rhoda Henson Sunday 10th November – Remembrance Sunday Alison McQueen Sunday 17th November Revd Martha McInnes Sunday 24th November Rhoda Henson
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Worship in August
Join us this August as we celebrate worship each Sunday. All are services are family friend and welcoming of everyone. Sunday 4th TBC Sunday 11thLiz Meek Sunday 18thAlison Lintern-Gittens Sunday 25thJohnna Reeder
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Join us in July
Join us in worship during July, our services are led by people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. We are an open and affirming Church and welcome you for who you are. 7th JulyJoint service with Bethesda URC, Tongwynlais (at City URC) 14th JulyDr Nici Lintern-Gittens 21st JulyTBC 28th JulyRevd Shelagh Pollard
Read MoreThe Great Get Together
Facing up to climate change in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a country that seems to live with serious challenges – challenges that are political, economic and social. But an additional threat over the last year has been on the extreme weather front. Severe drought has affected much of the country and a cyclone left a wake of destruction. Learning to live with the […]
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Christian Aid – Harvest Appeal
If you’re unfortunate to be born into the wrong caste in India, today, you’ll probably face a lifetime of injustice. This was the situation facing Kasthuri and her young son. Kasthuri is a Dalit – the lowest caste – and she has faced prejudice throughout her life. When she chose to marry against her parents’ […]
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What is our harvest?
Recently Martha reminded us that there are some parts in the Bible that we are all perhaps even a bit too familiar with, as they get revisited all the time. On the other hand we have sections like today that, when opening the lectionary to put together a service, can be a bit discomfiting. What […]
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Worship during November
Join us this November for a family friendly, open and inclusive Worship. Sunday 3rd November Rhoda Henson Sunday 10th November – Remembrance Sunday Alison McQueen Sunday 17th November Revd Martha McInnes Sunday 24th November Rhoda Henson
Read MoreBrexit
The situation continues to change surrounding Brexit. There has been a shift from discussing the problems that need to be solved to leave smoothly, to focusing on the political tactics to achieve any departure. We are all participants in this and there is no ‘independent’ point from which any of us can view the situation. […]
Read MoreThe Feast of St Michael
Mary Evans, my long-serving and much-loved predecessor in the Ely Pastorate, had her roots in the Vale of Glamorgan farming community. She used to complain that the city churches’ harvest celebrations didn’t coincide with the actual harvesting of the Welsh countryside’s crops. The reaping, binding and threshing of harvesting apparently belonged more properly to late […]
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Pride
On 24th August Cardiff celebrated Pride, a celebration of the LGBT+ community. It is worth reflecting that it has now been three years since the URC voted to allow its churches to decide whether they want to register to perform marriages of same-sex couples. Cumnor URC, in Oxford, was one of the first congregations to […]
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Burial
‘Our God is God not of the dead, but of the living’ (Mk. 12:27.) The other day I was reading an act passed by Parliament in January 1645: “An Ordinance for taking away the Book of Common Prayer, and for establishing and putting in execution of the Directory for the publique worship of God.” When […]
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Worship in August
Join us this August as we celebrate worship each Sunday. All are services are family friend and welcoming of everyone. Sunday 4th TBC Sunday 11thLiz Meek Sunday 18thAlison Lintern-Gittens Sunday 25thJohnna Reeder
Read MoreHomelessness Outreach
There have been a number of changes at City URC over the last few months, noticeably in the garden and on the front doors. This work has been carried out by our very hard working homeless friends with support from City and Cardiff City Council. The project has been flourishing and provides an opportunity for us […]
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