Kirkgate Messenger – October 2026
The October 2026 edition of the Kirkgate Messenger is now available to read by clicking here or clicking on the thumbnail opposite.
Sunday Service – 4th October 2026
Sunday Service for 4th October 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 233: Come, you thankful people, come
CCLI Song # 50200 – George Job Elvey | Henry Alford
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 229: We plough the fields and scatter
CCLI Song # 328554 – Jane Montgomery Campbell | Johann Abraham Peter Schulz | Matthias Claudius
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Offering
Reading: Romans 8: 14-17
Guild Dedication
CH4 198: Let us build a house
Marty Haugen © 1994 GIA Publications
Sermon
CH4 231: For the fruits of all creation (tune 562)
CCLI Song # 4353731 – Fred Pratt Green
© Words: 1970 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Music: Public Domain.
Prayer
Invitation to Communion
MP 381: Jesus stand among us
CCLI Song # 40155 – Graham Kendrick
© 1977 Thankyou Music Ltd
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Prayer
CH4 458: At the name of Jesus
CCLI Song # 38947 – Caroline Maria Noel | Michael Brierley
© Words: Public Domain. Music: 1960 Josef Weinberger Ltd
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
SCAM Emails
Earlier today, Wednesday 30 September, a rogue account appears to have gained limited access to the church roll database. The vulnerability has now been secured. Several members have reported receiving unusual and SCAM emails apparently from our minister, Rev Nigel Chikanya. The address used to send the emails is ficticious, and when replied to the response was asking the recipient to buy gift cards.
Please be alert over the coming days and weeks of suspicious emails or calls purporting to be from the minister or church members, and check the sender’s address against a correct one which you may have in your personal address books. If you do receive any, please delete the emails and do not respond to them. We will never ask for money or request the purchase of unlikely goods over email.
Sunday Service – 27th September 2026
Sunday Service for 27th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Rev. Katrona Templeton
Opening Voluntaries include:
Organ Hymn – Raymond Haan
Pavane – Fauré
Welcome & Intimations
MP 469: My faith looks up to thee
CCLI Song # 43334 – Lowell Mason | Ray Palmer
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
MP 1039: Colours of day
CCLI Song # 550092 – John Paculabo | Keith Rycroft | Sue McClellan
© 1974 Thankyou Music Ltd
Offering: Gabriel’s Oboe – Ennio Morricone
Reading: Ephesians 2: 8-10
CH4 555: Amazing Grace
CCLI Song # 2762836 – John Newton
© Words & Music – Public Domain
Sermon
CH4 554: Rock of ages
CCLI Song # 40588 – Augustus Montague Toplady | Thomas Hastings
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 396: And can it be
CCLI Song # 25280, Charles Wesley | Thomas Campbell
© Words: Public Domain. Music: Public Domain
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Trumpet Voluntary – John Stanley
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
Sunday Service – 20th September 2026
Sunday Service for 20th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Rev. Katrona Templeton
Opening Voluntaries include:
Prière à Notre-Dame – Boëllman
Voluntary No. 4 in F – Boëllman
Quiet Voluntary in C – Boëllmann
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 547: What a friend we have in Jesus
CCLI Song # 27714 – Charles Crozat Converse | Joseph Medlicott Scriven
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 600: Spirit of God, unseen as the wind
CCLI Song # 1539476 – Margaret V. Old
© Words: 1971 Scripture Union. Music: Public Domain
Offering: Gabriel’s Oboe – Morricone
Reading: John 15: 1-11
MP 760: When we walk with the Lord
CCLI Song # 22094 Daniel Brink Towner | John Henry Sammis
© Words: Public Domain. Music: Public Domain
Sermon
CH4 580: Abide with me
CCLI Song # 43190 – Henry Francis Lyte | William Henry Monk
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 644: O Jesus, I have promised
CCLI Song # 2399773 – John Ernest Bode
Words: © Public Domain. Music: “Thornbury” © Basil Harwood (1859-1949)
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Loud Voluntary No. 1 in C. – Boëllmann
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
Sunday Service – 13th September 2026
Sunday Service for 13th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Rev. Katrona Templeton
Opening Voluntaries include:
Cantabile No. 5 – Rien Schalkwijk
Tranquility – Rien Schalkwijk
Autumn Whistle – Rien Schalkwijk
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 124: Praise to the Lord
CCLI Song # 43073 – Catherine Winkworth | Joachim Neander
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 204: I am the Church
CCLI Song # 18510 – Donald Stuart Marsh | Richard Kinsey Avery
© 1972 Hope Publishing Company
Offering: Largo – Handel
Reading: 1 Peter 2: 9-10
CH4 392: When I survey the wondrous cross
CCLI Song # 721333 – Edward Miller | Isaac Watts
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Sermon: I am part of God’s family
CH4 457: All hail the power of Jesus’ name
CCLI Song # 7047742 – Edward Perronet | William Shrubsole
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 200: Christ is made the sure foundation
CCLI Song # 2448277 – Henry Purcell | John Mason Neale
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Prelude on Lobe der herren – Paul Fey
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
Sunday Service – 6th September 2026
Sunday Service for 6th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries include:
Gloria – Vivaldi
Song Without Words – WS Lloyd Webber
Meditation on ‘Stracathro’ – WS Lloyd Webber
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 531: My Jesus, My Saviour
CCLI Song # 1406918 – Darlene Zschech
© 1993 Wondrous Worship (Admin. by Song Solutions www.songsolutions.org)
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 549: How deep the Father’s love
CCLI Song # 1558110 – Stuart Townend
© 1995 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music)
Offering: Aria – WS Lloyd Webber
Reading: 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21
CH4 225: Summer suns are glowing
CCLI Song # 715710 – Samuel Smith | William Walsham How
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Sermon: I am a new creation
MP 329: In Christ there is no east or west
CCLI Song # 2608952 – John Oxenham | William Jones
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Invitation to Communion
CH4 19: Ye gates lift up your heads on high
Psalm 24, The Scottish Psalter, 1929 | William Croft | Andrew Mitchell Thomson
Music & Words: Public Domain
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Prayer
MP 536: The Old Rugged Cross
CCLI Song # 19722 – George Bennard
© Words & Music: Curb Word Music
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Triumphant March – WS Lloyd Webber
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
Kirkgate Messenger – September 2026
The September 2026 edition of the Kirkgate Messenger is now available to read by clicking here or clicking on the thumbnail opposite.
Sunday Service – 30th August 2026
Sunday Service for 30th August 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries include:
The New Commonwealth – Vaughan Williams
Choristers’ March – Lefébure-Wély
Adoration – Florence Price
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 120: God we praise you
CCLI Song # 4795935 – Christopher Idle | Ludwig van Beethoven
Words: 1982 Christopher Idle – The Jubilate Group (Admin. by Jubilate Hymns Ltd, sub to Hope Publishing for various regions); Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
MP 69: Change my heart, O God
CCLI Song # 1565 – Eddie Espinosa
© 1982 Heart And Harp Worship
Offering: A Gaelic Blessing – John Rutter
Reading: Ephesians 1: 3-14
VIDEO: Amazing Grace (My chains are gone)
CCLI Song # 4768151 – Chris Tomlin | John Newton | Louie Giglio
© 2006 Rising Springs Music; Vamos Publishing; worshiptogether.com songs
Video by Chet Valley Hymns and Songs
Sermon
MP 1164: Come thou fount of every blessing
CCLI Song # 108389 – John Wyeth | Robert Robinson
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 512: To God be the glory
CCLI Song # 23426 – Fanny Jane Crosby | William Howard Doane
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Pilgrim’s Chorus – Wagner
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
Sunday Service – 23rd August 2026
Sunday Service for 23rd August 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries include:
Prelude & Fugue in Cmin – JS Bach
Prelude & Fugue in F – JS Bach
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 111: Holy, holy, holy
CCLI Song # 1156 – John Bacchus Dykes | Reginald Heber
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
MP 128: Father God, I wonder
CCLI Song # 58202 – Ian Smale
© 1984 Thankyou Music
Offering: Caro Mio Ben – Giordani
Readings: Genesis 3: 1-13; and Romans 3: 23
CH4 559: There is a redeemer
CCLI Song # 11483 – Melody Green
© 1982 Ears To Hear Music
Sermon: You are broken, but not abandoned
CH4 448: Lord, the light of your love is shining
CCLI Song # 30426 – Graham Kendrick
© 1987 Make Way Music (Admin. by Make Way Music Limited
Prayer
CH4 564: Jesus loves me, this I know
CCLI Song # 1187 – Anna Bartlett Warner | William Batchelder Bradbury
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Trinity Procession on Nicaea – Phil Lehenbauer
Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.
