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Pride Thanksgiving Service

PRIDE THANKSGIVING SERVICE Sunday 22 June 7pm @ City URC YOU ARE SO WELCOME (Windsor Place, CF10 3BZ) Join our community of LGBTQ+ Christians and allies as we give thanks for our witness as Queer Christians during Pride month

Big Green Week picnic

The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. At City we will celebrate this by holding a GREAT BIG GREEN WEEK Service and Picnic on SUNDAY 15 JUNE starting at 10:30am. Please join us on Sunday at City URC at 10:30am for a […]

2025 Cardiff and Penarth URC Pastorate LENT BIBLE STUDY

Please do consider joining our Pastorate Lent Bible Study this year. Everyone is welcome! The pastorate Lent Bible study will be run for 5 weeks of Lent, on Wednesday evenings at 7:30pm, alternating between Beulah URC, Rhiwbina and City URC, Windsor Place, Cardiff. It will be led by our ministers David and Martha. In addition, […]

March 2025 Events

Ash Wednesday 5 March @ 12noon: Prayer service at City URC to pray for our world. Monday 9 March @ 7:30pm: House group meet in the Old Chapel for a social evening. Wednesday 12 March @ 7:30pm: Pastorate LENT bible study led by David or Martha. (this week to be held at Beulah URC.) Sunday […]

Ash Wednesday Prayer Service

We are planning on holding a Prayer service at City URC at 12 noon on Ash Wednesday, 5 March 2025 and would like to invite you and your congregations to join us, if you can. Our focus will be on praying for God’s beautiful creation and including prayers for the world today. We meet on […]

Going for Eco-GOLD: Making City URC a Greener Church

City’s Green Group, bring you: Tips to help City URC go from Silver to GOLD in Eco-Church Awards February Eco-Challenge: Take stock of the year ahead – help the planet by the way you exercise and holiday Gosh, we are a month into the new year – a time when we noticethe lighter evenings, and […]

Wales Synod Eco Roadshow comes to City URC

It is time to be . . . Reflective Informed Creative Together Come along on Saturday, 8th February 2025 10:00am to 3:30pm to your Eco Church Regional Roadshow at City URC, Windsor Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BZ ECO CHURCH ROADSHOW WHY Why should we care? Because God asked us, wants us, and gave us that special […]

‘Challenge, Choice & Change’ Art Exhibition

New paintings tell a story of change – as Stephen comes back to City URC A NEW ART exhibition by Revd Stephen Best will be doing the rounds in the autumn and will reach City URC at the end of November, happily the same weekend that Stephen, newly retired from his many changing years of […]

Harvest – Commitment for Life – Service 2024

Sunday 29 September is our Harvest/Commitment for life service with visiting preachers Ana and Tod Gobledale leading worship. Please consider donating a gift of money to Commitment for Life (CfL) – we have envelopes available for this in the church. CfL is our church’s way of supporting Christian Aid and specifically their work with partners […]

Milestone achieved: City is an Eco-Silver Church – time now to chase Eco-GOLD!

ALL THAT hard work has paid off – City URC has been declared an Eco-Silver Church! Special congratulations go to Church Secretary Alison McQueen and City Green Friend Julia Edwards, who have led the small team that has worked so hard to achieve this and who also write our monthly Eco-Tips column to keep us […]

Big Green Week picnic

Report from Synod Spring Meeting 2024

Alison Tansom reports from Wales Synod Meeting OPPORTUNITIES for training in lay ministry or exploring a call to lay ministry were highlighted at the Spring Meeting of the National URC Synod of Wales held on Zoom on the morning of Saturday 16 March 2024. Synod Training & Development Officer Revd Dr Jason Askew spoke on […]

City URC awarded Eco-Church Bronze Award – but looking for a Silver!

CITY URC has been awarded a Bronze Award in the Eco Church rankings. This is a significant step on the church’s eco-journey that was relaunched recently with the appointment of Julia Edwards as our City Green Friend, in conjunction with the eco-drive of URC Wales Synod. Awards come in Gold, Silver and Bronze and are […]

Synod Moderators lead pastorate worship

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS to mark 50 years of the United Reformed Church in London on Saturday 15 April were followed by special Pastorate celebrations last weekend, when we hosted two Moderators: Revd Simon Walking, Moderator of Wales URC Synod, and Revd Fiona Bennett, Moderator of URC General Assembly. Revd Simon Walkling led worship at City URC […]

Worship at City URC

Our Sunday services normally start at 10:30am Our worship is in the Reformed tradition, with emphasis upon the reading of the Bible and the preaching of the Gospel. Members of the congregation read from the Bible and lead prayers, as we seek to include within worship the needs and gifts of all God’s people. We […]

City Church’s link with Cardiff’s Friend of Freedom

City forefather who dared to tangle with the BATCHELOR Butes. Some City folk know that I have been writing the story of City URC – that goes back some 400 years! – for a history journal. Then while the journal was in production, David Meek, who kept me straight on the financial side, told me […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Climate Change

The government has announced tougher plans to tackle climate change by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the UK to almost zero by, the year 2050. Under the 2008 Climate Change Act, MPs agreed to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050, but this will now change under the terms of the new law. The […]