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Birthdays

Some birthdays are just extra special: Congratulations to City URC’s Golden Girls for reaching a wonderful milestone and for all your kindness and support over the years. With every good wish for the next decade or two.

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’s ‘Farewell’ to Moderator

A service of thanksgiving for Revd Simon Walkling’s time as Moderator of the URC National Synod of Wales will be held on Saturday 5 August at 2.00pm. For those of you who wish to attend the service by Zoom, here is the link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83599097025pwd=cXVDWVpZWHlSVTQ3aHY5aFprZ2dxQT09 Meeting ID: 835 9909 7025 Passcode: Synod12

We do like to be beside the seaside

Pastorate Day at Porthcawl KEEP THE DATE! A Pastorate Day will be held in Porthcawl on Sunday 9 July. There’ll be sea, sand and – if we’re lucky – sunshine to share. Meet at 10.30 at Trinity United Church for worship or come to City for 10.30 worship led by Ken Graham. Meet in Porthcawl […]

Worship Walk takes a detour into racism

THE MAY Sunday Worship Walk took a little tour of some of the massive wall pictures that have become so popular in Cardiff to talk about the messages they convey. The last one visited was particularly striking – and still in the process of being painted! The artist and spray painters were just having a […]

URC urges Home Office to drop Illegal Migration Bill

The URC has called for the UK government’s plans on tackling immigration across the English Channel to be abandoned. The Illegal Migration Bill, now in the House of Commons, will bring sweeping changes to how those crossing the Channel in small boats to seek asylum in the UK are treated. The URC affirms that those […]

Pastorate group to join London climate rally

CHURCH CLIMATE groups will be among those joining The Big One, a weekend mass rally in London to demand an end to fossil fuels, that will include a Pilgrimage to Parliament. A group from the Pastorate is planning to travel to London to join the rally for the first day on Friday 21 April, when […]

A Moment with our Ministers

When surprises interrupt our plans, we can – like the disciples – take time to respond Dear Friends It’s July. Time for school to end and summer holidays to begin. It’s half way through the year – how can that be?! What will the next few weeks hold? Holidays, change of routine, visits from friends, […]

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 […]

Blind Faith

THE theme of the half tern Youth Pastorate meeting was Blind Faith, with discussions based around the story of the blind man being healed (John 9: 1-12), the meaning behind the story and whether the story was a real miracle or a metaphor. The meeting was held in Canton Uniting Church. The first small exercise […]

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

Synod Moderators lead pastorate worship

Worship at City URC

Our Sunday services 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 also […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Friends and Neighbours

Our FAN (Friends and Neighbours) group is open to anyone friendly from around the corner or around the world. If you are feeling a little lonely, are new to the area or learning English you will be especially welcome. We are a friendly group of men and women who gather each Saturday ready for 11 […]