Our former minister Revd Dr Tony Haws died Wednesday 7th August, in hospital in Newcastle. He is much missed by Jackie, his children and grandchildren and by the church family. His time at St. Andrew’s is especially remembered for the large number of students he took through the Training for Learning and Serving programme, including […]

Dear Friends, How do you know who you are? Perhaps more to the point, how does somebody else know who you are? Last week I needed to provide my ID to a firm of solicitors. I completed all the usual questions – name, address, date of birth and so on – and then they sent […]

How 2024 is flying by.  Here we are planning for our autumn work party already and it will take place on Saturday, 28 September. The first of the 2024 work parties was held back in April and turned out to be a very social affair with members of the Pocket Allotment project joining work party […]

The Thames North Synod held an ‘Eco Day’ on Saturday 8th June. This was the second such event: the first was held a year ago at Cores End URC, in a beautiful rural context. This year was at the Vine URC in Ilford, just off a bustling high street. Quite a contrast, but both churches […]

The cake sale and door to door collection and  envelopes raised an overall total of £490.26. Than you to everyone who helped in one way or another….and thank you to John Mitchell who continues to help with door to door collections. Thank you all for the support. Every blessing Hette

We’ve come a long way from the early efforts to continue worshipping together during lockdown and have settled into a pattern where we are joined each week by between 6 and 12 worshippers from home, with online operations run by John Mitchell, Eunice Nortey or me. There are many reasons why people can’t join in […]

NEXT  MEETING Thursday 5th September On the first Thursday of July we held our fourth Tea, Coffee, Cakes & Chat session and once again we enjoyed an afternoon of delicious tea, coffee & a selection of homemade cakes. Better still was the company who included people from church but also non-members. This article is here […]

So sang the Revd Gary Davis, king of the ‘holy blues’ singers, back in the 1950s and ‘60s, and so sing I (at least in the shower). One of my great delights as a member of St Andrew’s URC is playing in the (variously named) ‘music group’, or ‘church band’. Maybe we need a competition […]