Sale United Reformed Church

17/10/2022

We are very sorry to announce that as from October 24th 2022 Sale United Reformed Church will be permanently closed.

15/08/2021

Please join us in praying for the people of Afghanistan, including our dear colleagues and the communities with whom we work. 🙏

29/06/2021

On Sunday June 27th we celebrated our Church Anniversary by returning to in church worship.
The service was led by The Rev. Paul Brewerton and you can watch it here

28/04/2021

'Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.' Romans 12:12

In India, a second wave of coronavirus is having a devastating impact.
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​Cases are rising at an alarming rate, with more than 350,000 new cases in just 24 hours, according to Reuters.

​More than 200,000 lives have been lost to the pandemic in India. Across the country, hospitals are overrun and oxygen supplies are falling short of demand.

Please stand with us and pray for our sisters and brothers in India.
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​You can find prayer points for coronavirus here: caid.org.uk/CoronavirusPrayers

​Find out how we are working with our local partners in India as part of our Coronavirus Appeal: caid.org.uk/India

08/04/2021

This link will take you to our Easter Day recorded service (someone belatedly ☹

28/03/2021

This link will take you to our recorded service for Palm Sunday

26/03/2021

Join The Joint Public Issues Team tomorrow lunchtime for a live prayer broadcast. The Team will be gathering for a time of collective prayer for those weighed down by debt due to Covid-19.
Get the details: https://resetthedebt.uk/prayandact/

21/03/2021

We join in prayer with Christian Aid

Join us in our fifth Lent prayer 🙏
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​Loving creator God and Lord of all,
we know that you hold close to your heart
the hungry and the poor,
the vulnerable and the marginalised.

​You bring down powerful people from their thrones.
You invite us to join you in your global mission
to bring about justice and equality, dignity and love.
You challenge our choices and our lifestyles.
You challenge our vision and our hearing.

​As we daily make our selfish choices to buy this or that
luxury, you see those whose choices for the basics have been
taken from them.
As we dither about what we can do about fossil fuels,
you see those whose homes are being washed away.
As we debate about whether gender justice really
matters, you see women who are excluded from owning land.
As we look for the best of education for our children,
you see those who never get to survive infancy.

​Lord open our eyes and ears to see the world that you
see. To hear the voices that you hear.
To listen to the people who ache for justice.
To rage with them.
To hope with them.
To trust and work with them for a better tomorrow.
Even as you fill the hungry with good things,
may we not be among those who are sent away with
empty hands.
In Jesus name we pray.
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​Amen.
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​This prayer is written by Liz Hughes, Presbyterian Minister (retired), and presently Chair of Christian Aid Ireland and Chair/Convener of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s Global Mission Council.

08/03/2021

Join us in our third Lent prayer with this prayer for deliverance, based on Psalm 10 🙏
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​Lord, why don’t you do something?
How can you bear to stand by and watch,
while the poor are caught in the traps that the rich have baited?
Why don’t you scam them for a change?
The rich don’t even try to hide their greed.
In fact, they’re proud of it!

​‘Who’s going to stop me?’ they brag. Not you! Not your God!
They mock our attempts to curb their excesses.
There’s always another way to evade tax, exploit the
planet, bypass the regulations, run rings round the authorities.
They think they’re untouchable! They are such predators!

​It’s always the poor, or the vulnerable,
the elderly, or the innocent that they target.
They’re always on the lookout for the next easy mark,
and they think they are getting away with it!
They think you don’t notice. Or don’t care.

​But you do see it, Lord!
You do hear the voices of the poor.
You do listen to their secret longings.
And you will be their comfort.
You will audit the accounts of the rich,
And it will be a terrible reckoning.
One day, your Kingdom will come,
And the countless phony kingdoms of this world will collapse,
Sending all those ‘jobs for the boys’ and ‘nice little earners’ crumbling to dust.
But, in the meantime, we will not be silent:
'This is not how the world was meant to be.'
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​Amen.

​This prayer is written by Anne Muir, retired BBC television producer. Anne is also a member of Christian Aid Scotland’s Advisory Committee, and of the Side By Side Scotland Steering Group.

21/12/2020

Our service for the fourth Sunday in Advent can be viewed here