Sunday Service – 28th June – from our locum

Please click below to listen to the Sunday Service for 28th June by Mr Brian Murray.

You can follow the service by downloading this Order of Service.

This week’s hymns are:
129: The Lord is King, lift up your voice
513: Courage, brother, do not stumble
465: Be thou my vision

Our phone-based service, 01294 444201, continues to prove popular – please encourage anyone you know who does not have online access to give it a go. After the brief welcome message plays there will be a short pause of around 15 seconds, and then this week’s service (40 minutes) will start playing. Next week, to incorporate the new Kirkgate: By Request podcast, a menu system will be added to the phone service – where you’ll need to Press 1 to listen to the weekly service, or Press 2 for the Request programme.

If you want a request in next week’s first Kirkgate: By Request podcast then you need to email requests@kirkgatechurch.org.uk by the end of today (Sunday 28th July) – it’s looking like there’s still room to squeeze in a couple of requests if you’re quick! The programme will appear here next Sunday at 7pm, as well as on facebook and the phone service.

As you will have heard on the news, the government has relaxed some of the COVID-19 restrictions applying to churches. Congregations will only be able to reopen their buildings if and when they can safely meet a large set of principles outlined by the Church of Scotland – including enabling social distancing, and cleaning and disinfecting the building after every occasion. As such, it is unlikely that our customary pattern of worship is likely to be permitted in church buildings for quite some time and therefore at present Kirkgate Church will remain closed for the forseeable future.