Programme

Temple Cowley United Reformed Church

Oxford Road, Cowley, OXFORD, OX4 2ES

Church office :

+44 (0)1865 751621

Minister :

Office : (as above) or

Home :

+44 (0)1865 421891

Email minister :

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Programme

This weekly programme varies during August, School and Public Holidays

All are welcome to all acts of Worship at Temple Cowley URC, for information on any other events, please contact the minister.

For ‘naming ceremonies’ (‘christenings’) of children, please see note below.

SUNDAY

10:30am Morning Worship

A varied programme, but centred around a message relating Christian Biblical insights to daily life. Communion is celebrated on the third Sunday. Children are welcome, and share in communion with us.

1:00pm Worship in Punjabi

With the Asian Christian Living Fellowship (Anglican tradition)

WEDNESDAY

4:45 - 5:45pm Rainbow Guides (5 - 7 years)

6:00pm Brownie Guides (7 - 10 years)

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

From 11:30am — Retirees’ Lunch

Second Friday of the Month. Meals need to be booked in advance.

Oxford Road, Cowley, OXFORD, OX4 2ES

Church Office : +44 (0)1865 751621

Minister : Office (as above. Home : +44 (0)1865 421891 Mobile : 07968 486854

Note : Naming ceremonies (‘Christenings’) for infants.

Temple Cowley United Reformed Church offers Services of Blessing & Thanksgiving at a time and place to suit the family. That may be Sunday morning, but does not have to be. This is a centuries-old ceremony at which parents give thanks for the birth of a child and dedicate themselves as his/her parents before God, asking God’s blessing on the child and on themselves as they do so. It does not require the parents to promise to bring the child to church regularly.

Baptism is a rite of initiation into the Christian Church, and parents who bring a child for baptism are required to promise that they will bring the child up in the church (i.e. they will be part of the life of an actual worshipping Christian community). It is becoming more common these days for people to want to make their own choice to be baptised rather than having it made for them by their parents.

Because, in the URC, it is the church members’ meeting that is the ‘priest’ (not the minister) a service of baptism can only take place during Sunday morning worship. Where a Sunday is a fifth Sunday in the month, we hold it available for such services, but cannot guarantee that a Minister will be available on other Sundays.

The Minister will be pleased to visit you to think this through with you.

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