Dear Friends, Nicola and I have entered a strange new world as our youngest son went off to university last month. We are now ‘empty nesters’. According to Wikipedia: “All parents are susceptible to empty nest syndrome… Symptoms of empty nest syndrome can include depression, a sense of loss of purpose, feelings of rejection, or […]

Colin Burgess

1 September 2019 / David Wiggs / Church Contacts

Alison Whittingham

29 August 2019 / David Wiggs / Booking Requests, Church Contacts

Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – July 2019

6 July 2019 / Russell Furley-Smith / Russell's Monthly Newsletter

Climate Change

25 June 2019 / David Wiggs / Events

Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – June 2019

9 June 2019 / Russell Furley-Smith / Russell's Monthly Newsletter

Dear Friends, According to the spiritual writer David Adam, if spring represents the incoming tide, summer is the full tide of our lives, a time of depth and growth. It is the time when we achieve much and shape who we are. It is a time to seek to enjoy life and live it to […]

Russell’s Monthly Newsletter – May 2019

10 May 2019 / Russell Furley-Smith / Russell's Monthly Newsletter

Dear Friends, The Manse, over Easter, was the focus of intensive revision. Cam was revising for his university finals and Ross for his A levels. I, too, was in the business of revision – but not in the same sense as Cam and Ross who were swatting for exams. But their revision helped shape my […]

Churches in Focus

10 March 2019 / Announcements / Church in Focus

Moat is a welcoming church that seeks engagement with the local community. Worshipping in a grand Victorian building the people of Moat love a challenge and when recently everyone showed up on Sunday morning to find the heating not working, we quickly reconvened in the adjacent hall and set up an instant café church. The […]

Transport Links

8 March 2019 / David Wiggs / Information

How to find your way to Purley United Reformed Church from whatever direction you may be coming from.