We regret that our Sunday Worship is currently suspended, being replaced each Sunday with a recorded service.  The scheduled preachers for these recorded services are listed below.

We are planning to resume Sunday morning worship in our building from Sunday 6th September.  Our worship together will have to take a new format, and some of the things that we value most about worshipping together will inevitably be different for a while.  Our “live” worship will complement our “on-line” worship and much of the content for both services will be the same.

Revd Catherine Bowstead

Mrs Keg Glossop

Mrs Kim Tame

Mr Mike Bowstead

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Each service was recorded by the participants in their homes and then put together to make a complete service.

Order of Service:

MP 3

1. Eternal God, your love's tremendous glory
   cascades through life in overflowing grace,
   to tell creation's meaning in the story
   of love evolving love from time and space.

2. Eternal Son of God, uniquely precious,
   in you, deserted, scorned and crucified,
   God's love has fathomed sin and death's deep darkness,
   and flawed humanity is glorified.

3. Eternal Spirit, with us like a mother,
   embracing us in love serene and pure:
   you nurture strength to follow Christ our brother,
   as full-grown children, confident and sure.

4. Love's trinity, self-perfect, self-sustaining;
   love which commands, enables and obeys:
   you give yourself, in boundless joy, creating
   one vast increasing harmony of praise.

5. We ask you now, complete your image in us;
   this love of yours, our source and guide and goal.
   May love in us, seek love and serve love's purpose,
   till we ascend with Christ and find love whole.

Alan Gaunt (b. 1935)    CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

StF 495

1. Dear Lord and Father of mankind
   forgive our foolish ways;
   reclothe us in our rightful mind;
   in purer lives thy service find,
   in deeper reverence, praise.

2. In simple trust like theirs who heard
   beside the Syrian sea
   the gracious calling of the Lord,
   let us, like them, without a word
   rise up and follow thee.

3. O sabbath rest by Galilee!
   O calm of hills above,
   where Jesus knelt to share with thee
   the silence of eternity,
   interpreted by love!

4. With that deep hush subduing all
   our words and works that drown
   the tender whisper of thy call,
   as noiseless let thy blessing fall
   as fell thy manna down.

5. Drop thy still dews of quietness,
   till all our strivings cease;
   take from our souls the strain and stress,
   and let our ordered lives confess
   the beauty of thy peace.

6. Breathe through the heats of our desire
   thy coolness and thy balm;
   let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
   speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
   O still small voice of calm!

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

Order of Service:

MP 17

1. With gladness we worship, rejoice as we sing,
   free hearts and free voices how blessèd to bring;
   the old, thankful story shall scale thine abode,
   thou King of all glory, most bountiful God.

2. Thy right would we give thee — true homage thy due,
   and honour eternal, the universe through,
   with all thy creation, earth, heaven and sea,
   in one acclamation we celebrate thee.

3. Renewed by thy Spirit, redeemed by thy Son,
   thy children revere thee for all thou hast done.
   O Father!  Returning to love and to light,
   thy children are yearning to praise thee aright.

4. We join with the angels, and so there is given
   from earth alleluia, in answer to heaven.
   Amen!  Be thou glorious below and above,
   redeeming, victorious, and infinite Love!

George Rawson (1807–1889)

StF 465

1. Guide me, O thou great Jehovah,
   pilgrim through this barren land;
   I am weak, but thou art mighty;
   hold me with thy powerful hand:
   Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven,
   feed me now and evermore;
   feed me now and evermore.

2. Open thou the crystal fountain
   whence the healing stream shall flow;
   let the fiery, cloudy pillar
   lead me all my journey through:
   strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
   be thou still my strength and shield;
   be thou still my strength and shield.

3. When I tread the verge of Jordan
   bid my anxious fears subside;
   death of death, and hell's destruction,
   land me safe on Canaan's side:
   songs of praises, songs of praises,
   I will ever give to thee;
   I will ever give to thee.

William Williams (1717–1791)
translated by Peter Williams (1727–1796)

Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

Order of Service:

MP 249 (popular version)

1. How lovely on the mountains are the feet of Him
   who brings good news, good news,
   proclaiming peace, announcing news of happiness,
   Our God reigns, our God reigns!

Our God reigns, our God reigns!
Our God reigns, our God reigns!

2. You watchmen lift your voices joyfully as one,
   shout for your King, your King.
   See eye to eye the Lord restoring Zion:
   Your God reigns, your God reigns!

3. Waste places of Jerusalem break forth with joy,
   We are redeemed, redeemed.
   The Lord has saved and comforted His people:
   Your God reigns, your God reigns!

4. Ends of the earth, see the salvation of your God,
   Jesus is Lord, is Lord.
   Before the nations He has bared His holy arm:
   Your God reigns, your God reigns!

Leonard E Smith Jnr (b. 1942)    CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

StF 610

1. Best of all is God is with us,
   God will hold and never fail.
   Keep that truth when storms are raging,
   God remains though faith is frail.

2. Best of all is God is with us,
   life goes on and needs are met,
   God is strongest in our weakness.
   Love renews, will not forget.

3. Best of all is God is with us,
   hearts are challenged, strangely warmed,
   faith is deepened, courage strengthened,
   grace received and hope reformed.

4. Best of all is God is with us,
   in our joy and through our pain,
   till that final acclamation:
   ‘life is Christ, and death is gain’.

5. Best of all is God is with us
   as we scale eternal heights,
   love grows stronger, undiminished;
   earth grows dim by heaven's lights.

Andrew Pratt (b. 1948)    CCLI Streaming Licence 583214
Based on John Wesley's final words.

Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

Order of Service:

StF 103

1. God is Love: let heaven adore him;
   God is Love: let earth rejoice;
   let creation sing before him,
   and exalt him with one voice.
   He who laid the earth's foundation,
   he who spread the heavens above,
   he who breathes through all creation,
   he is Love, eternal Love.

2. God is Love: and he, enfolding
   all the world in one embrace,
   with unfailing grasp is holding
   every child of every race.
   And when human hearts are breaking
   under sorrow's iron rod,
   then they find that selfsame aching
   deep within the heart of God.

3. God is Love: and though with blindness
   sin afflicts each human soul,
   God's eternal loving-kindness
   holds and guides and keeps them whole.
   Sin and death and hell shall never
   o’er us final triumph gain;
   God is Love, so Love for ever
   o’er the universe must reign.

Timothy Rees (1874–1939) (alt.)

StF 611

1. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
   let me be as Christ to you;
   pray that I may have the grace
   to let you be my servant too.

2. We are pilgrims on a journey,
   and companions on the road;
   we are here to help each other
   walk the mile and bear the load.

3. I will hold the Christ-light for you
   in the night-time of your fear;
   I will hold my hand out to you,
   speak the peace you long to hear.

4. I will weep when you are weeping;
   when you laugh I'll laugh with you;
   I will share your joy and sorrow
   till we've seen this journey through.

5. When we sing to God in heaven
   we shall find such harmony,
   born of all we've known together
   of Christ's love and agony.

6. Brother, sister, let me serve you,
   let me be as Christ to you;
   pray that I may have the grace
   to let you be my servant too.

Richard A. M. Gillard (b. 1953)    CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org

Order of Service:

StF 117

1. Sing praise to God who reigns above,
   the God of all creation,
   the God of power, the God of love,
   the God of our salvation;
   with healing balm my soul he fills,
   and every faithless murmur stills:
   to God all praise and glory!

2. What God's almighty power has made
   that will he ever cherish,
   and will, unfailing, soon and late,
   with loving-kindness nourish;
   and where he rules in kingly might
   there all is just and all is right:
   to God all praise and glory!

3. The Lord is never far away,
   but, through all grief distressing,
   an ever-present help and stay,
   our peace, and joy, and blessing;
   as with a mother's tender hand,
   he leads his own, his chosen band:
   to God all praise and glory!

4. O you who name Christ’s holy name,
   give God all praise and glory:
   O you who own his power, proclaim
   aloud the wondrous story.
   Cast each false idol from its throne:
   the Lord is God, and he alone:
   to God all praise and glory!

Johann Jakob Schütz (1640–1690), Frances Elizabeth Cox (1812–1897) 
and Honor Mary Thwaites (1914–1993)    CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

StF 338

1. There is a Redeemer,
   Jesus, God's own Son,
   precious Lamb of God, Messiah,
   Holy One.

Thank you, O my Father,
for giving us your Son,
and leaving your Spirit
till the work on earth is done.

2. Jesus my Redeemer,
   name above all names,
   precious Lamb of God, Messiah,
   O for sinners slain.

3. When I stand in glory
   I will see his face,
   and there I'll serve my King for ever
   in that holy place.

vv. 1-2 Melody Green (b. 1946)
v. 3 Keith Green (1953–1982)    CCLI Streaming Licence 583214

Music played by Rev. Clyde McLennan, Hymnary.org