Dear Friends, For more than a generation, Christian Aid Week has been a primary focus during May. In one of the largest mobilisations of a volunteer work force anywhere, people from so many different backgrounds delivered envelopes to as many households in the country as possible and then returned to collect donations to bring hope […]
Christian Aid – 75th Anniversary Celebration
Christian Aid is hosting an online service. This is to celebrate its 75th Anniversary and will be a time of celebration, reflection and recommitment to the cause. There is more information and a sign-up form on the website:
Zoom to Zimbabwe – with Christian Aid hosted by Christian Aid – 11 May 2021 at 11am
Tuesday, 11th May at 2.00pm – Commitment for Life looks forward to welcoming you to ‘Zoom to Zimbabwe’. An afternoon of updates, music, fellowship and more. For a link to join the event hosted by Commitment for Life please e-mail Suzanne at [email protected]
Commitment for Life – Moving Stories from Central America – May / June 2021 newsletter
There are stories of hope across the World – Purley United Reformed Church in partnership with the United Reform Church focus on Central America – here is the latest newsletter for May / June 2021 For more information about Commitment for Life and the work that is being done across the World to give communities […]
Russell’s Newsletter – April 2021
Dear Friends, A new day is dawning – thank God – even though this is the second Easter in a row we are having to celebrate in ‘lockdown’, unable to sing our Easter ‘Alleluias’ in church together. However, as we reflected last year, a lockdown Easter gives us an opportunity to identify a little more […]
Russell’s Newsletter – March 2021
Dear Friends, A week is “a long time in politics”. If that is true, how long is a “year living with a pandemic? 12 months ago, Nicola and I had just returned from a wonderful week in Spain. We were a bit surprised there was no one at Gatwick checking our temperature as we passed […]
Russell’s Newsletter – February 2021
Dear Friends, You will all be familiar with the popular quiz question designed to catch you out: How many months have 28 days? The answer, of course, is all of them. February is unique in that it is the only month to have only 28 days (unless it is a leap year, when it has […]
Commitment for Life – Moving Stories from Central America – March / April 2021 newsletter
There are stories of hope across the World – Purley United Reformed Church in partnership with the United Reform Church focus on Central America – here is the latest newsletter for March / April 2021 For more information about Commitment for Life and the work that is being done across the World to give communities […]
Russell’s Newsletter – February 2021
Dear Friends, You will all be familiar with the popular quiz question designed to catch you out: How many months have 28 days? The answer, of course, is all of them. February is unique in that it is the only month to have only 28 days (unless it is a leap year, when it has […]
Russell’s New Year’s (2021) Newsletter
Dear Friends, Never, in my lifetime, have people longed for one year to end and a new one to begin. 2020 has been a year to forget, but a year we will never forget. So now our hopes are pinned on 2021. However, a new year merely marks an arbitrary way of measuring time that, […]