Every Sunday at 11 am we have a Family Church Service.

We are continuing with a hybrid Church/Zoom Service, with worship led from the church.

Hymns are played and sung in church and those participating at home via Zoom can sing along.

We distribute an Order of Service via e-mail and include the Zoom log-in details which change for each service. If you would like to receive the weekly invitation e-mail, please let us know with an e-mail to pottersbarurc@googlemail.com

On the first & third Sunday of the month Holy Communion is celebrated at this service.

An edited video of our weekly Service can be viewed on our Services Page.

May 2026 – On behalf of the Elders

Dear Friends,

One of the many duties that fall to a Serving Elder during the time of vacancy, is the writing of the “Minister’s Letter” that features at the beginning of the Monthly News. 

I propose to pose a question and then answer it from my own observations.

“We haven’t had a full time Minister, or a stipendiary Minister shared with another Church or Churches, for at least 7 years –  and what do we have to show for it?”

My answer would be “quite a lot”. The Church is still here and holding regular Church Services every Sunday, with a pool of visiting Ministers and  Worship Leaders taking our Services, and ensuring that the Christian Message and the preaching of the Gospel, is enacted.

Though there has been an inevitable fluctuation in Member numbers, we have welcomed new Members and Adherents and have an active Eldership and Management Committee.

The men of the Church still take up the challenge proposed so many years ago, are still  able to stage and produce in excess of thirty breakfasts of choice on Easter Sunday.

Regular monthly musical recitals and Charity Lunches take place, and the annual and well supported Quiz Night is to take place in the Autumn. The Church continues to support a thriving independent Nursery School.

There will be challenges that remain and lie ahead, but I’m sure we will meet those with customary brilliance and Christian verve.

My other “Church” is my Croquet Club. It has similar, probably identical challenges, although these are “ball centred”, in that the idea is that a physical ball needs to go through a physical hoop. Not much difference otherwise. We in the Church get metaphoric balls through metaphoric hoops on a regular basis.

Spring is a time of activity. We have just celebrated Easter with a performance of Stainer’s Crucifixion, the story of Christ’s brutal death and joyful resurrection.

 May I wish us all a pleasant and relaxing countdown to Autumn.

God Bless,

Frank Palmer

For and on behalf of the Elders.