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.

October 2026 – On behalf of the Elders

Dear Friends,

On the whole, I enjoyed my schooldays, the one major exception being the first period on a Friday in my primary school when we practised the hymns for the following week.  It may only have been half an hour but to us boys, sitting cross legged on a hard wooden floor, it seemed far longer. 

However it did mean that we arrived at secondary school with a at least one hundred and forty hours of knowledge of hymns under our belt, even if the tunes were the then standard. For instance, “The Lord’s my shepherd” was sung to Crimond – no Brother James’ Air then – and so quite different from today when there are hardly any school assemblies to practise for.

When presented with a new hymn by a worship leader we often say that we can sing anything if we can find a tune that we know and will fit.  And yet we can know a hymn too well that we can sing it without thinking of what the words mean, so perhaps varying the tune from time to time is no bad thing.

But what constitutes a hymn is also up for debate.  Last Sunday, Anne Walton having heard it played on Songs of Praise the previous Sunday had us sing Autumn Days, a happy nostalgic song giving thanks for life much sung in schools some fifty years ago.  Anne confessed the tune had passed her earworm test while your scribe woke up two days later with the tune ringing in his ears.

So why not, proving PBURC can be semi modern without being happy clappy!

on behalf of the Elders

Alastair Maclean