Events and news
Church events, on a regular and a one-off basis, are displayed on the Foyer notice boards, the notice board in the Mayo Hall, on Sunday Service Papers and sometimes on the Foyer plasma screen.
Our church magazine, Church News, also contains announcements and news.
- What's on
- Preparation for Easter
* Lent and Holy Week 2010 - many special events * - Lent this year runs from Wednesday 17th February to Saturday 3rd April and many extra events, courses and services are being offered by KURC and other churches in Kingston upon Thames. Please visit the special Lent 2010 page for more information on studies and talks during this period.
The last week of Lent is known as Holy Week and details of services in Kingston for Holy Week and Easter Sunday are listed here.
- Now until Saturday 10th April, Kingston Museum
* Silk, squalor and scandal: Hogarth's London * - (top)
- Tuesday 9th March, Kingston United Reformed Church, at 12.30
* In the name of honour? * - Free seminar exploring forced marriage and 'honour'-based violence.
- Thursday 25th March, KURC 09.30 - 12.30
* Kingston U3A Orchestra * - First rehearsal of the orchestra - all instrumentalists welcome!
- Saturday 27th March, Holy Trinity Church, Claygate at 19.30
* Handel's Israel in Egypt * - Performed by the Claygate Choral Society. Conducted by Martyn Daldorph, with other KURC members in the choir!.
- Saturday 27th March, St Clement's Church, Sirdar Road, London W11 4EQ at 19.30
* Portobello Orchestra concert * - KURC members playing! (Find the church here)
- Friday 2nd April, Trafalgar Square at 15.15
* The Passion of Jesus * - Free public performance in Trafalgar Square by the cast of Wintershall's Life of Christ.
- Saturday 24th April 11.00 to 16.00 and on Sunday 25th during morning Services, KURC
* All Our Talents * - The KURC Art and Craft Show is open to all Church members and friends and all ages! Grab your exhibition space by completing this form.
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- In the news
- * Fairtrade Fortnight * 22nd February - 7th March
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- * World Water Day * World Water Day (22nd March 2010) is a crucial moment in the fight to tackle the global sanitation and water crisis and reduce the daily death toll of 4000 children from water-related diseases. As a run-up to the first High Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water in Washington DC on 22nd April, the World's Longest Toilet Queue is an initiative to bring together campaigners across the world to demand real change. Do your bit and join the queue! .
- * Carbon fast for Lent * The Bishops of Liverpool and London are among those promoting a carbon fast for Lent. Among a list of suggestions for reducing our carbon footprints we are encouraged to give up using mobile phones, iPods and other technologies for a day.
- * Haiti - a Kingston couple's experience * A Kingston couple, Reninca and Carwyn, currently living some six hours north of Port au Prince and working for the Haiti Hospital Appeal, made their second round trip to the capital on Tuesday, 19th January taking water and medicines to the earthquake victims.
- * Shower * Fundraising for the shower installation at KURC continues with a recent commitment from the Mayor, Councillor Ian McDonald to meet the funding shortfall. More details in the link above.
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- The Back Page
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- Church magazine (Church News)
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- KURC monthly calendar
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This section concentrates mainly on 'special events', or events that run for a short time at our church or nearby.
To view the regular weekly and monthly events at this church, please take a look at the KURC monthly calendar; and for a wider mix of interesting events, please see the latest edition of the The Back Page
For this year's Fairtrade Fortnight the Fairtrade Foundation is asking the nation to join in The Big Swap. For two whole weeks we are being asked to swap our usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff which is a small step towards making the world a fairer place. It means we can show our support for developing world producers through what we buy. Two billion people - a third of humanity - survive on less than $2 a day. Unfair trade rules keep them in poverty, but they face the global challenges of food shortages and climate change too. Whenever we go to the shops, we can use our wallets to make a stand.
The Fairtrade Foundation believes that developing world producers should be in control of their own lives, by getting a better deal for the work that they do. This is a different way of doing business. It's a way that puts the poorest of the world first
A new edition of the The Back Page is produced with the weekly Service Paper and keeps us aware of relevant ideas, news and events happening beyond our church premises. Here is the previous week's edition.
View the current edition of the church magazine
View back copies of the church magazine:
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This monthly publication varying from 16 to 28 pages of news, faith matters, announcements of events, listings, pastoral news, debates, photos and jokes is produced by an editorial group who rotate the task, and who may stamp their imprint on the content and format, in turn. The young people in the church sometimes edit an edition.
Everyone is invited to make contributions to Church News which should be with the editor by the second Sunday of the month.
Church News comes out towards the end of the month. Church neighbours are responsible for its distribution, though many people pick up their copy at the back of the church, where it awaits them. It is read by all members and friends, and for some, it forms the only contact they have with events in the church. Foyer visitors make sure they read it over their coffee.
Paper copies are available in A4 size and a large print version is available in A3 should you wish to have a large print copy instead. Church members and friends are kindly asked to contribute £1 per copy to help meet printing costs.
Church News is also published on the website a few days after it has been published in traditional format. The RSS feed on the browser will let you know when the latest edition becomes available electronically.
This is the most recent monthly calendar and this is the calendar for next month (subject to change!).
(And if you're interested - here's what happened last month!)