Our services are usually held on Sunday morning at 10.00 am but please see our upcoming events for any changes to the schedule or additional events being held.
Our worship has no set format compared to many other churches. The services are simple, yet meaningful and often include readings, prayers, hymns, and an address.
Although our minister, Reverend Danny Crosby, leads the majority of the worship, others are welcome to take to the pulpit and say a few words.
Please feel free to join us. Visitors are welcome – and we even offer coffee with a chat after the service!
Please join us in Chapel or on Zoom- see details below:
Queens Road Unitarian Free Church Urmston M41 9HA invites you to explore the many questions of life, in an open and supportive environment. To seek and develop meaning in our lives, to enrich our own experiences and therefore impact on the lives of others in positive ways. Exploring ideas from a variety of traditions, sharing our personal experiences, encouraging deep listening and compassionate discussion.
We meet on the third Wednesday of every month at 11.00 am
Our sister chapel in Altrincham have a selection of regular events that might be of interest to you.
10am Queens Road Unitarian Free Church, Urmston
11.30am Dunham Road Unitarian Chapel, Altrincham
11.30am on Zoom ID 841 9082 8195 no password required.
A service exploring Dreams, their purpose, their meaning. How often things begin in dreams how dreams can begin transformations in people's lives. Exploring what we dream about and perhaps they can become reality, whilst also being careful as to not tread on the dreams of others...dreams, like lives, are precious and sometimes delicate things...
Sources of inspiration include "The Sermon on the Mount", Rumi, The Marginalian, The Wizard of Oz, The Everly Brothers, Prospero from Shakespeare's "The Tempest and a week away at 2Ministry in the Making...
All are most welcome...Come as you are, exactly as you are...but do not expect to leave in exactly the same condition...
The following is an extract from the service...
We live in an awakened state, but still we dream and everything wonderful and beautiful and worth while begins as a dream. The key of course is to bring that dream alive in reality. To return home transformed perhaps by the dream with treasure to share in reality. I felt like I had myself after a few days away with these wonderful and inspiring people. I also had some ideas of my own, which I hope to one day bring to reality.
As I was driving home I thought of Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” and her dream of that somewhere over the rainbow. That place she visited that changed her, but brought her back home to reality with treasure to share.
Someday I'll wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top
That's where you'll find me
Oh, somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
And the dream that you dare to,
Oh why, oh why can't I?
Dorothy of course dreamed of that place somewhere over the rainbow, a place away from dull, grey, flat Kansas. She was caught up in a tornado and carried there, went on an adventure and returned to Kansas, to reality. She was transformed by the journey and discovered all she needed was already there, it was already there within her. She realised she had the brains, the heart and the courage she needed she just needed to bring alive what was within her to life, to created her heaven on earth. I have come to believe that heaven on earth begins within us, perhaps in our dreams and it is up to us to realise those dreams and bring them to life. For as Jesus taught on “The Sermon on the Mount” “You are the light of the world”. All you need is already within you. All you have to do is bring it to life and let it shine for all to see and make your dreams come true, not only for yourself but for all. By shinning your light, you encourage others to do the same.
We bring heaven alive through our loving living or we create Hell by fearing one another, fearing life, turning away from life. We can dream our lives and live that dream and we can turn our nightmares into reality.
Exploring guilt. Looking at where these feelings come from, Asking what we mean by guilt? Looking at it’s different forms asking is guilt healthy? Are such feelings exploited at times? We will also explore themes around forgiveness both for ourselves and others. How easy do we find these feelings? Do we easily forgive? Are some thing unforgivable? We will look closely at guilt, forgiveness and grief and much more…
All are most welcome...Come as you are, exactly as you are...But do not expect to leave in exactly the same condition...
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