Get Connected on Saturday 11th July from 16.00 to 18.00 in the Mayo Hall.  Play, Pray, Pay, Participate, come along and find out about getting involved in our youth work.  Open to all.

We are currently collating our archive of Church News back-copies in PDF format. For various reasons the archive is currently incomplete, however, we will be updating this page on an ongoing basis over the next few days to fill in all the gaps, so please check back at this page every couple of days (it shouldn’t take longer than that).

2009

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February Church News 2009
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July Church News 2009
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2008

January Church News 2008
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April KURC Church News – Youth Edition
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November Church News 2008
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On Monday May 4th, during Kingston’s day-long street extravaganza, dancers from Kingston URC’s “Not Strictly Dancing”, led by Jeff Clark, will perform for the enjoyment of all.  Out in the Market Place and outside the Bentall Centre, we will dance, then bring onlookers into join us. 

Come along at: 11.30 or 3.30 outside the Bentall Centre; or to the Market Place at 2 – 2.30, to watch or to join in!

Dancing in the Mayo Hall

This year’s theme is:  ‘keeping hope alive’.   Christian Aid Week cannot happen without us  so please help to change the world by offering to help, in any way you can, with our own Christian Aid Week activities:

§ QuizAid Night,  Saturday 9^th May 7.30pm.  Tickets £5 from Ray Charlton

§ House to House Collection – any time during the  week

§ Christian Aid service, Sunday 10^th May 6.30pm at Kingston URC

§ Market Stall and  Flag Day –  Saturday 16^th May

     Please make cakes/biscuits/preserves for the market stall. Small plants are also very welcome. 

     We also need people to rattle tins for an hour or so between 9.30am and 3pm. 

§ Sponsored Walk around the City churches – Sunday 17^th  May starting at 1pm with a short act of worship at St Mary-le-Bow.   

     Please speak to Ray Charlton

What’s on …

Tuesday, 28^th April 6.30pm C-SCAIPE,  Penrhyn Road site, Kingston University.  Communicating faith in today’s culture.  Speaker: Andy Frost, Christian Evangelist.  Free.  No need to book.  Contact: Rose Dallison, 0208 517 2948

Wednesday, 29^th  April  8pm BBC Radio4 –  Bringing up children. 4/4  Modifying children’s behaviour.

Wednesday, 6^th May 7.30pm St Andrew’s Church,  Short Street,  Waterloo.  Prison ministry.  Speaker: Trevor Jacquet, chaplain at Belmarsh prison.  All welcome.

April Church News 2009 is viewable by clicking here.

Kingston URC now has a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/kurc. You might ask, what on Earth is Twitter? Well the best way to learn about Twitter is to read this article on the Daily Telegraph, or watch the video below. But the short answer is that it is a way of getting very short updates from friends or web sites. Lots of people are also using it as a way of ‘talking in public’ about something. It’s becoming a great way to share information, and as such is yet another way of promoting our Church. Anyway, enjoy!

Pat Brooks writes: The Shack is a new novel, which is on sale in all the Kingston bookshops (and online at Amazon here). It is well worth reading for us as Christians. It poses many of the questions that we are faced with in everyday living as Christians and gives some interesting and thought provoking answers. You may not agree with all the author says, but I guarantee that you will be left with much to think about.

Here’s what we would like you to do now.

1. Read the book The Shack

2. Each week on we will be pulling a particular theme from the book and putting it on the web site.

3. You can respond by leaving a comment on the article.

4. Through these comments you will be able to converse with others about the book.

Here are a few thoughts to get you going:

The main character in the story is Mack, a middle-aged man with a wife and family. He has been a nominal Christian all his life, but after the kidnap and killing of his youngest daughter is left depressed and angry with God. He receives a strange invitation to meet with God and when he takes the risk and goes to the appointed place he finds God as three people living for the weekend in the shack.

My first invitation is for you to think about and explore the author’s concept that, for Mack, God appears as creator God in the form of a black woman; stout and good-natured. She provides him with interesting food and a chance to talk. Jesus is a man of course, but not as Mack (and we I suspect) expects.

He is Jewish with the Roman nose and neither handsome or particularly charismatic. Like many of us he finds that he can relate to Jesus more easily than with the other two. The Holy Spirit is an Asian woman. She is both ethereal and mercurial arriving and disappearing in disconcerting ways.

The relationship between them is close and loving. Mack is surprised by the way they relate in perfect harmony with no thought for hierarchy.

God the creator is presented as a woman because Mack has had a drunken father who was both cruel and vicious. Later in the story God presents herself as a father because at that point in the story that is what is needed.

This opens up the whole question of how we think of and address God. Do you think of him/her as male, female or genderless? Jesus invited us to think of him as a father figure. Probably because Jewish society was male orientated at the time. For those who have had difficult fathers this is a problem I know.

For me a genderless God is difficult. How do you feel? I think that in his tender love for us all God invites us to think of him and address him in the way that is easiest for each individual. I suspect that it is more important for God that we approach and know God than how we address him. Surely he meets us where we are and draws us on towards a relationship.