A number of members of St. Andrew’s visited Oberammergau in 2010 for the Passion Play. It was, by all accounts, an extraordinary experience. The people of Oberammergau have staged the Passion every ten years since 1634, in gratitude to God for the passing of the Plague from their village. Planning is already well advanced for […]
Thank you to all who baked or bought cakes for this enjoyable occasion on the final Friday in September. I was grateful too to those folk who assisted, serving the coffees and teas, and Barbara Nash organiser of a raffle. Adding to the sum raised were sales of cards and jewellery made by Heather and […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s Ealing 2nd July by Revd Sue McCoan Genesis 22:1-14 The story of Abraham and Isaac makes for uneasy reading. What kind of father would put his son through an ordeal like that? What kind of God would ask him to do it? The clue is in the opening line of […]
Sermon given by Revd Sue McCoan 21st May 2017, at St. Andrew’s Ealing Psalm 115; John 14:15-21 If you’ve ever spent any time with small children, or of you were ever a small child yourself, you will very likely at some time in your life have played the game of Peep-bo, or peekaboo. I think […]
In 2012, the URC organised a conference, ‘Opening the Gates to Heaven’, to explore the theology of worship – not just what we do, but why we do it. A second conference, ‘Treasuring Word and Worship’, followed in 2014. Out of this came two things: a small book ‘In Word and Spirit’, containing the discussion […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s Ealing Sun 7th May by Revd Sue McCoan Ezekiel 34: 7-15 My brother-in-law is a farmer, mixed arable and beef cattle now, but at one time he also kept sheep. One day when we were visiting, he asked Jamie and me to help him move the sheep from the barn […]
St Andrew’s hosted between 13 and 15 guests as part of the ECWNS project on three Saturday nights/Sunday mornings during March. The guests were homeless men and women who are being given somewhere warm and dry to sleep during the winter months whilst they are finding somewhere to live. The guests arrived at 7.30pm and, after […]
to the Church AGM 19th March 2017 2016 began with a feeling of hope and expectation. On 10 January the service was given by the Revd Sue McCoan who was ‘preaching with a view’. After the service we all had a chance to chat with Sue and her husband, Jamie, and the overwhelming impression of […]
The Wool ‘n Yarn Knitters have been meeting in the Reception area on the second and fourth Tuesday afternoon each month from 2.00 – 3.30pm since 11 June 2013. It is a small group of knitters who meet together – some were complete novices to knitting when they began but are now gaining more confidence […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s URC, Ealing, Sunday 5th March 2017 by Revd Sue McCoan Matt 4:1-11 The Gospel passage is headed ‘the Temptation of Jesus’. ‘Temptation’ has become a rather trivial word – and ‘tempting’ is generally seen as something actually quite good, in a naughty-but-nice sort of way. Can I tempt you to […]
