Sunday Service, 20 September 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Songs My Mother Taught Me - Dvorak (performed by Holly Redshaw and Jack Campbell) Opening Words: ‘All That We Share Is Sacred’ by Andrée Mol (adapted) As we gather together this morning, may we remember: When you share with me what is most important to you, That is where listening begins. When I show you that I hear you, when I say your life matters, That is where compassion begins.

Sunday Service, 13 September 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Gavotte by E. Grieg (performed by Sydney Mariano, Abby Lorimier, Jack Campbell) Opening Words: ‘Prayer for Ingathering’ by Eric Cherry (adapted) Guided by Love, secured by Hope, and made courageous by Faith, We gather together once again: Both Learning and Teaching, Welcoming the Injured and the Healing, Ever Justice-Seeking, We bless this church with our Love. With Pilgrims and Seeke

Sunday Service, 6 September 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Rory Castle-Jones Musical Prelude: All That I Am – William Himes arranged by Gerry Shoults (performed by Pippa Scourse and Andrew Robinson) Opening Words: ‘We Gather Here in this Holy Place’ “We gather here in this holy place, We gather as an inclusive and open-minded congregation of spiritual seekers, We gather to learn from the teachings of humanity’s wise women and men, We gather to love God, and to love our neighbour

Sunday Service, 30 August 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Opening Music: ‘Gow's Lament’ by Abby Lorimier, Georgia Morgan Turner, Georgia Dawson Opening Words: ‘The Great Teachers in Life’ by Jason Cook (adapted) We seekers are on a quest: A quest to discover truth and meaning. Sometimes we think we’ve found it— Wrapped up, glimmering with newness Straight off the intellectual assembly line. All the answers right here for us And others, if they’d only listen. But truth ha

Sunday Service, 23 August 2026 Led by Jasmine Cooray (video and audio to follow after the event) Musical Prelude: Ronald Binge: The Watermill (performed by Abby Lorimier and Andrew Robinson) Opening Words: ‘Come Into This Circle of Community’ by Andy Pakula (adapted) Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space. Come as you are. Dare to bring your whole self - Bring the joy that makes your heart sing, the moments that have carried you through the week.

Sunday Service, 16 August 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Roy Clark Musical Prelude: Manhã de Carnaval - Luiz Bonfá (performed by Georgia Morgan Turner) Opening Words: ‘We Gather’ by Paul H L'Herrou We gather in community to rest from our labours, to greet our neighbours, and to open our being to insight and intuition of that greater reality of which we are a part. May we find in our time together inspiration and renewal. May we touch the holy in each other a

Sunday Service, 9 August 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Dr. Patricia Brewerton Musical Prelude: Chanson de Matin - Elgar (performed by Sophia Kannathasan and Andrew Robinson) Opening Words: ‘This Faith’ by Heide Cottam (adapted) Let us be a faith that gathers, reaching out for one another through the walls of hatred and suspicion others build, through the cages of ignorance and arrogance, and through the fear that stalks our streets. Let us be a faith that

Sunday Service, 2 August 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Rutter: When Music Sounds - poem by Walter de la Mare (performed by Andrew Robinson, Lucy Elston-Panter, Margaret Marshall, Benjie del Rosario and Nick Beever) Opening Words: ‘The Mysterious Pull of the Unanswerable’ by Bran Lennox (adapted) We have chosen to bring ourselves here, now, to this sanctuary, to gather as a community of faith. We join together in solidarity as people of deep com

Sunday Service, 26 July 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Congregation Members Musical Prelude: Reverie - Ruth Gipps (performed by Holly Redshaw and George Ireland) Opening Words: ‘Our Own Way of Being Religious’ by Alex Brianson (adapted) We gather this morning to share a particular kind of community – a community of faith in which each of us is free to quest for our own way of being religious and faithful. We gather this morning to turn our attention to

Sunday Service, 19 July 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Wildflower March and The Green Fields of Glentown, March and Reel (performed by Caitlin Mannion, Tara McCarthy, and Tara Viscardi) Opening Words: ‘Being Human’ by Erika Hewitt (adapted) Welcome to this morning, this day, this opportunity to be together in community— which is a time of joy, comfort, and sometimes challenge. This congregation is a place where we come to learn more about being

Sunday Service, 12 July 2026 Led by Rev. Sarah Tinker Musical Prelude: The Swan from Carnival of the Animals (performed by Katie Taunton and Andrew Robinson) Opening Words: ‘Put Away the Pressures of the World’ by Erika Hewitt (adapted) As we enter into worship, (let’s) put away the pressures of the world that ask us to perform, to take up masks, to put on brave fronts. Silence the voices that ask you (us) to be perfect. This is a community of compassion and welco

Sunday Service, 5 July 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Schumann, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen from Kinderszenen Op. 15 (performed by George Ireland) Opening Words: ‘Welcome to this Place of Possibility’ by Marianne Hachten Cotter (adapted) Welcome to this place of possibility! This is love's hearth, the home of hope, a refuge for minds in search of truth unfolding, ever beautiful, ever strange. Here, compassion is our shelter, freedom ou

Sunday Service, 28 June 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Chopin, Prelude in E Major Op. 28 No. 9 (performed by George Ireland) Opening Words: ‘We Seek Steadiness’ by Joan Javier-Duval (adapted) As the world shifts beneath us, we seek steadiness: the unwavering support of community, the principled guidance of wise teachings, the faithful turning of the seasons. We seek within ourselves and in one another a devotion to all that is true, all th

Sunday Service, 21 June 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Claude Debussy, ed. Susann McDonald - The Maid with the Flaxen Hair (performed by Grace Cross) Opening Words: ‘For Those Gathered in Worship’ by Barbara J. Pescan In this familiar place, listen: to the sounds of breathing, creaking chairs, shuffling feet, clearing throats, and sighing all around Know that each breath, movement, the glance meant for you or intercepted holds a life within

Sunday Service, 14 June 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Frank Bridge, Miniatures, H.87-89, II. Gavotte (performed by Kiana Umali Garvey, Abby Lorimier and George Ireland) Opening Words: ‘Be Still for a Moment’ adapted from Amy McKenzie Quinn and Elena Westbrook Welcome to this common, sacred space. Common, because we are all welcome. Sacred, because here we transform the ordinary and attend to the profound. We carry with us our regrets, dou

Sunday Service, 7 June 2026 Led by Jasmine Cooray Musical Prelude: Morning has Broken - Cat Stevens (performed by Andrew Robinson) Opening Words: ‘We, Whose Journeys are Always Beginning’ by Marni Harmony We, whose journeys are always beginning We, whose mission always awaits us We, whose visions are bent on loving, We gather together here. We gather as a community drawn together out of common need, each carrying our own bundle of treasures and dreams. We gat

Sunday Service, 31 May 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Valborg Aulin: Lullaby of the Waves, from 5 Tone Poems, op. 7 no. 1 (performed by Jack Campbell) Opening Words: ‘Not Always Perfect’ by Calvin O. Dame We come into one another's presence seeking some part of ourselves, knowing that we do not live alone, knowing that we cannot live fully if we are for ourselves alone. We come as ordinary people, each with strengths and each with weaknesses

Sunday Service, 24 May 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Jigs: The Coming of Spring, The Wandering Minstrel, Lark in the Morning (performed by Tara McCarthy, Caitlin Mannion, and Kathy Walton) Responsive Opening Words: ‘We Speak the Language of Love’ by Erika A. Hewitt (adapted) Our opening words this morning have a simple refrain which I invite you to join in speaking; at the end of each verse you might join in the words ‘We speak the language

Sunday Service, 17 May 2026 Led by Rev. Sarah Tinker Musical Prelude: ‘A Wondrous Path’ from The Secret Piano by Alexis Ffrench (performed by Jack Campbell) Opening Words from ‘Welcome to this House of Love’ by Danny Crosby ‘Welcome to this our house of love... Welcome in the spirit of love, in the spirit of openness, in the spirit of reverence... Here may we revere God, revere life, revere one another... Here may we find peace, rest, comfort and challenge... In this

Sunday Service, 10 May 2026 Led by Dr. Mel Prideaux Musical Prelude: Song of the Birds - Catalan Folk Song (performed by Abby Lorimier and Blanca Graciá Rodríguez) Opening Words: ‘But The Silence in the Mind’ by RS Thomas But the silence in the mind is when we live best, within listening distance of the silence we call God. This is the deep calling to deep of the psalm- writer, the bottomless ocean. We launch the armada of our thoughts on, never arriving. It is