Sunday Service – 16th August 2026
Sunday Service for 16th August 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries include:
Amazing Grace – Paul Fey
Look at the world – John Rutter
Voluntary 2 in D – William Croft
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 147: All Creatures of our God and King
CCLI Song # 1503 – St. Francis of Assisi | William Henry Draper
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
JP 94: If I were a butterfly
CCLI Song # 35445 – Brian Howard
© 1975 Mission Hills Music
Offering: For the beauty of the earth – John Rutter
Reading: Genesis 1: 26-28
MP 1072: In Christ alone
CCLI Song # 3350395 – Keith Getty | Stuart Townend
© 2001 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music Ltd)
Sermon: You bear his image
CH4 502: Take my life, Lord, let it be
CCLI Song # 2873921 – Frances Ridley Havergal | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 251: I, the Lord of sea and sky
Words and Music: Dan Schutte, © 1981, OCP Publications, 5536 NE Hassalo, Portland, OR 97213, USA
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Improvisation on Lasst uns erfruen – Stuart McMahon
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 – 9th August 2026
Sunday Service for 9th August 2026 at 10.45am with Katrona Templeton and David Fidler
Opening Voluntaries include:
Farewell to Stromness – Peter Maxwell Davies
At the Ferry from “Idylls of Iona” – Julian Nesbitt
Welcome & Intimations
Call to Worship
MP 167: Give me oil in my lamp
CCLI Song # 4755580
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Reading: Mark 16: 15-19
Homily
Offering uplifted during Song: This little light of mine
CCLI Song # 5317642 – Stephen M. Lee
© Words: Public Domain; Music: 1998 Professional Music Services, Inc.
Prayer
Groups
Prayer
CH4 804: You shall go out with joy
CCLI Song # 20546 – Steffi Geiser Rubin | Stuart Dauermann
© 1975 Lillenas Publishing Company
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Fanfare – Lemmens
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 – 2nd August 2026
Sunday Service for 2nd August 2026 at 10.45am with Graeme Stewart
Opening Voluntaries include:
Quanta Qualia – Patrick Hawes
Many Waters – Patrick Hawes
Reflexionem – Patrick Hawes
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 153: Great is thy faithfulness
CCLI Song # 18723 – Thomas Obediah Chisholm | William Marion Runyan
© Words & Music: 1923. Renewed 1951 Hope Publishing Company
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 694: Brother, sister, let me serve you
CCLI Song # 72673 – Richard Gillard
© Words & Music: 1977 Universal Music – Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
Offering: To a wild rose – Edward Macdowall
Reading: Psalm 145
CH4 378: Praise to the holiest in the height
CCLI Song # 7014642 – John Bacchus Dykes | John Henry Newman
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Sermon: What is God like?
CH4 724: Christ’s is the world in which we move
CCLI Song # 872196 – Graham Maule | John L. Bell
Words & Music: 1989 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland
Prayer
CH4 718: We cannot measure how you heal
CCLI Song # 4751065. Graham Maule | John L. Bell
© Words & Music: 1989 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland (Admin. by Wild Goose Resource Group)
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals (alla Handel) – Karg Elert
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 – 26th July 2026
Sunday Service for 26th July 2026 at 10.45am with Rev Katrona Templeton
Opening Voluntaries include:
Largo (from New World Symphony) – Dvorak
Theme from Ladies in Lavender – Nigel Hess
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 196: Come, now is the time to worship
CCLI Song # 2430948 – Brian Doerksen
© 1998 Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire)
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
MP 225: He’s got the whole wide world
CCLI Song # 33681
© Words: Public Domain, Music: arr.1987 Phil Burt
Offering: Ave Verum – Mozart
Reading: 2 Kings 6: 1-7
CH4 493: It’s me, it’s me, O Lord
CCLI Song # 1581314 – Peter D. Smith
© 1967 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Sermon: When small things matter
CH4 737: Will your anchor hold
CCLI Song # 47031 – Priscilla J. Owens | William James Kirkpatrick
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
MP 454: Majesty, worship your majesty
CCLI Song # 1527 – Jack Hayford
© 1981 Rocksmith Music, admin by Leosong Copyright Services Ltd
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Grand March from Aida – Verdi
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 – 19th July 2026
Sunday Service for 19th July 2026 at 10.45am with Andrew Bruce
Opening Voluntaries include:
Ave Verum – Elgar
Ave Verum – Karl Jenkins
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 132: Immortal, invisible
CCLI Song # 124466 – Walter Chalmers Smith
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
SONG: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love
CCLI Song # 186208 – Charles H. Webb | Tom Colvin
© Words: 1969, 1989 Hope Publishing Company; Music: 1969, 1989 Hope Publishing Company
Offering: Gabriel’s Oboe – Ennio Morricone
Reading: Luke 10: 25-37
CH4 519: Love divine, all loves excelling
CCLI Song # 742329 – Charles Wesley | Rowland Hugh Prichard
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Sermon
CH4 544: When I needed a neighbour
CCLI Song # 227923 – Sydney Bertram Carter
© Words & Music: 1965 Stainer & Bell Ltd
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: Choral Song – Samuel Wesley
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 – 12th July 2026
Sunday Service for 12th July 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries include:
Meditation on “Brother James’ Air” – Harold Darke
All things bright and beautiful – John Rutter
Sheep May Safely Graze – JS Bach
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 694: Brother, Sister, let me serve you
CCLI Song # 72673 – Richard Gillard
© Words & Music: 1977 Universal Music – Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
MP 664: The spirit lives to set us free
CCLI Song # 2134598 – Damian Lundy
Words & Music: © 1978 Kevin Mayhew Ltd
Offering: Ashokan Farewell – Jay Ungar
Reading: Romans 15: 1-7
CH4 183: Fill now our life, O Lord our God
CCLI Song # 2872867 – Henry John Gauntlett | Horatius Bonar
© Words: Public Domain; Music: Public Domain
Sermon
MP 611: Spirit of Holiness
CCLI Song # 649934 – Christopher Idle
© Words: Christopher Idle – The Jubilate Group; Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 468: Son of God, eternal Saviour
Somerset Corry Lowry | William Penfro Rowlands
© Words & Music – Public Domain
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: War March of the Priests – Mendelssohn
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 – 5th July 2026
Apologies – some technical issues have meant that the hymns and singing haven’t been picked up in today’s service by the microphones.
Sunday Service for 5th July 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries include:
Minuet and Trio – Charles Darnton
March Religioso – Charles Darnton
Andante Tranquillo – W. Henry Maxfield
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
CH4 726: When we are living
CCLI Song # 4729860 – John L. Bell | Roberto Escamilla
© Words: 2002 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland; Music: Public domain – Spanish traditional melody
Offering: The Peace of God – John Rutter
Reading: Romans 14: 13-23
CH4 549: How deep the Father’s love
CCLI Song # 1558110 – Stuart Townend
© 1995 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music)
Sermon
CH4 757: When peace like a river
CCLI Song # 25376 – Horatio Gates Spafford | Philip Paul Bliss, arr. Phil Burt
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Invitation to Communion
CH4 662: Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts
CCLI Song # 25376 – Horatio Gates Spafford | Philip Paul Bliss, arr. Phil Burt
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Communion Music: Cantabile No. 14 – Rien Schalkwijk
Prayer
MP 1072: In Christ Alone
CCLI Song # 3350395 – Keith Getty | Stuart Townend
© 2001 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music Ltd)
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 – 28th June 2026
Sunday Service for 28th June 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya
Opening Voluntaries
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 449: Rejoice the Lord is King
CCLI Song # 2480211 – Charles Wesley | John Darwall
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
JP 71: Have you heard the raindrops
CCLI Song # 425282 – Christian Strover
© 1975 Christian Strover – The Jubilate Group
Offering
Reading: Romans 14: 1-12
CH4 189: Be still, for the presence of the Lord
CCLI Song # 120824 – David J. Evans
© 1986 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music Ltd)
Sermon
CH4 542 / MP 444: Lord speak to me
CCLI Song # 2769286 – Frances Ridley Havergal
Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 513: Courage, brother, do not stumble
CCLI Song # 5443516 – Norman Macleod | Arthur Seymour Sullivan
Words & Music: Public Domain
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.
Sunday Service – 21st June 2026
Sunday Service for 21st June 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Gary Benton
Opening Voluntaries
Welcome & Intimations
MP 604 / CH4 515: Soldiers of Christ, arise
CCLI Song # 1871969 – Charles Wesley | Edward Woodall Naylor
© Words: Public Domain; Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
JP 121: I’ve got the joy, joy, joy (2 verses)
CCLI Song # 1263591 – Amy Grant | George Willis Cooke
© Words: Public Domain; Music: 1993 Age To Age Music, Inc.; Riverstone Music, Inc.
Offering
Reading: Romans 13: 11-14
MP 482: Nearer my God to thee
CCLI Song # 2874377
Arthur Seymour Sullivan | Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Sermon
MP 642 / CH4 220: The day thou gavest
CCLI Song # 541953 – Clement Cotterill Scholefield | John Ellerton
© Words: Public Domain; Music: Public Domain
Prayer
MP 617: Stand up, stand up for Jesus
CCLI Song # 5422922 – George Duffield Jr. | George James Webb
© Words: 1982 The Jubilate Group; Music: Public Domain
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.
Sunday Service – 14th June 2026
Sunday Service for 14th June 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Katrona Templeton
Opening Voluntaries include:
Song of Hope – Paul Fey
Shackleton’s Cross – Howard Goodall
The Lord is my Shepherd – Howard Goodall
Welcome & Intimations
CH4 550: As the deer pants for the water
CCLI Song # 1431 – Martin Nystrom
© 1984 Restoration Music, Ltd. (Admin. by Restoration Music Ltd.)
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 544: When I needed a neighbour
CCLI Song # 227923 – Sydney Bertram Carter
© Words & Music: 1965 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Offering
Offering Music: Silent Worship – Handel
Reading: Romans 13: 1-10
CH4 704: I vow to thee my country
CCLI Song # 1757612 – Cecil Spring-Rice
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Sermon
CH4 125: Lord of all being
CCLI Song # 7073505 – Oliver Wendell Holmes | William Henry Gladstone
Words & Music: Public Domain
Prayer
CH4 231: For the fruits of all creation
CCLI Song # 4353731 – Fred Pratt Green
© Words: 1970 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Music: Public Domain.
Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Highland Cathedral
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.
