Pantomime – Sleeping Beauty This year’s pantomime by the Pantoloons will be Sleeping Beauty. Performances will be at Purley URC from Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30th January at 7.45 pm plus a matinée on Saturday at 3.00 pm. Tickets priced Adults £8 and Children £6 can be booked through the Pantoloons Box Office on Tel: […]
‘Sleeping Beauty’ – The Pantoloons Panto production for the New Year
‘Sleeping Beauty’ This year’s pantomime by the Pantoloons will be Sleeping Beauty in support of the Friends of Priory School and Crystal Palace Supporters Children’s Charity. Tickets can be booked through the Pantoloons Box Office on 01883 819682 or online by clicking on the button below: Dates and Times: Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30th January 2015 Wednesday […]
Partnership Peace Prayer 2015
International Partnership Peace Prayer 2015 Used in the Partnership churches on Partnership Sunday, 6th September 2015. This common prayer for peace recalls the outbreak of the Second World War 0n 1 September 1939 and unites us with our partner congregations in Hartford, Purley, Ostrava and Dessau. (1) ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ says Jesus Christ. Gracious […]
Russell’s Newsletter – November 2015
ear Friends, I do not remember 1914. Of course I don’t! Even Olive Himsley, now aged 101, does not remember 1914. But we do not forget. We vowed we would never forget – the horror, the death, the war that was to end all wars – and we do not forget that it didn’t end […]
Remembrance Sunday – 8th November 2015
Remembrance Sunday We shall be holding our usual service of remembrance and reconciliation at 10.30am on Sunday 8th November 2015. All are welcome.
Science / Faith Meeting – 24th November 2015
Science/Faith Meeting The next Science/Faith event at Christ Church, Purley, is being held on Tuesday  24th November at 7 pm. Professor Peter Bussey, Prof. of Astrophysics, Glasgow University, will be speaking on ‘God and Our Universe’ – How the Big Bang and suitability of our universe for life supports religious belief. Doors open at 6 […]
PURC – ‘A New Vision – for 2016’ (subject to change)
Church Grounds Update November 2015 VISION: Began at the Elders Emmaus Retreat in March 2014 with discussions on the need to improve our premises and the Church’s profile to the local community through better use of external and internal signage, upkeep of grounds and garden areas, notice boards and especially the frontage facing the Brighton […]
Russell’s Newsletter – October 2015
Dear Friends, At a meeting of our Synod Area (URCs across South London) Rev’d Jennifer Millington, known to many of you from her time as assistant minister in Purley, reflected on the changes in attitude to and practice of ministry since she had been ordained in the mid 1980s. She concluded the changes were significant […]
World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel
Bridges, Not Walls World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel – 20 to 26 September 20 to 26. * ‘For He is our peace; in his flesh, He has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is the hostility between us’ Ephesians 2. v 14 (NRSV) A symbol […]
Purley Food Hub AGM – 21 October 2015
Purley Food Hub AGM This will be held at Christ Church on Wednesday 21st October at 8 pm, with refreshments available from 7.30 pm. It is an opportunity to hear what the Food Hub has achieved over the last year and to encourage all those who give their time and effort to keep it going. […]