Advent 4 Reflection – ‘Gabriel’s Message’

There are moments when our life changes. It will never be the same again. We have to wonder how it felt for Mary when the angel Gabriel delivered that life-changing […]

Advent 3 reflection – ‘It came upon the midnight clear’

15/12/2024 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

Visiting my mother in in recent days we have agreed to sing at least one Christmas carol together (from the Bethlehem Carol Sheet) Her first choice was It Came Upon the […]

Advent 2 Reflection – ‘Here I am to worship’

08/12/2024 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

There comes a time when we must trust and wait for God. Walking through Advent, we have a growing sense of expectation, of waiting, of longing for the coming of […]

Advent 1 Reflection – ‘Hills of the North rejoice’

01/12/2024 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

And so, it begins… Advent Sunday is here and the countdown to Christmas gets underway properly. So what shall we sing? For me, one of the great Advent hymns has […]

United Pastorate Service – April 30th

26/04/2023 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

On Sunday 30th April the four churches of our Pastorate will be joining together to celebrate our morning worship at Trinity Church, Atherstone at 10.45am. Our service will be led […]

Christingle Service at Old Meeting

06/01/2023 / Allan Smith / Minister's Blog, Old Meeting URC Bedworth / No Comments

On Sunday 18th December 2022 we gathered at Old Meeting URC to make, bless and light our Christingles. It was a lovely service, and wonderful to share with many of […]

Services for Christmas Day 2022

20/12/2022 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

Come and join us for our celebrations on Christmas Morning! In each of the churches of the Pastorate we will be gathering at the earlier time of 10am for worship […]

Morning Worship – 27th March 2022

28/03/2022 / Allan Smith / Minister's Blog, Old Meeting URC Bedworth / No Comments

Our Morning Service for the fourth Sunday in Lent, which is also Mothering sunday, comes from Old Meeting URC, Bedworth. Today we are thinking about the Prodigal Son and grumbling […]

Morning Worship – 13th February

14/02/2022 / Allan Smith / Minister's Blog, Old Meeting URC Bedworth / No Comments

At Old Meeting URC, Bedworth we celebrated Holy Communion for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany on 13th February 2022. There were a few problems with the recording but we hope […]

Morning Worship – 30 January 2022

31/01/2022 / Allan Smith / Horeston Grange Church, Minister's Blog, Nuneaton URC, Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Trinity Church Atherstone / No Comments

When there is a fifth Sunday in the month all of the churches in the Pastorate join together for Sunday worship, and this month that took place at Horeston Grange […]