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Everyone is welcome to join us for Christian worship at Porth United Reformed Church. Whatever your beliefs, you will find a warm welcome here and we would be delighted if Porth URC could become your spiritual home.
On Sunday mornings at 11am there is a service of worship. The service includes prayers, hymns (traditional and modern), readings from the Bible and a sermon which explains more about what God might be saying to us today. The service lasts about an hour. The music is provided by our organists, John Attwood and Pat Carpenter, or occasionally by the “Digital Hymnal”.
Often our worship is beautified with flowers and scenes from the Bible. On this page there are scenes from Easter Day, showing the empty tomb, and Christmas Day, with the kings and shepherds visiting baby Jesus in the stable.
On the first Sunday of each month, as part of the service we share bread and wine as a sign of our Communion with God and with one another. Click on the Communion page on the menu bar for more about this.
On the third Sunday of each month, we hold a Family Service which is especially suitable for children of all ages. Our Brownies and Guides take part in some of these services, and we usually conduct services of Infant Baptism or Dedication as part of this service also. If you have a family and are thinking of joining us on a Sunday, the Family Service is a good place to start. Click on the link in the left hand menu bar for more about family services.
On special occasions, such as our Songs of Praise in the summer and our candlelit services at Christmas, the Sunday service is held in the evening instead of the morning. See our Programme for details.
On the 3rd Sunday of each month at 7.30pm, we cross the road to the Porth Plaza for Sacred Space - Café church comes to the Rhondda. This is a time of informal but inspiring worship in a café setting, with good coffee, good food, good company - and God's there too! You are welcome whether you count yourself as a Christian or not.
On Mondays at 3.00pm (except Bank Holiday Mondays and during August) we have a much more informal service of worship. Again we sing hymns and read from the Bible, but on Mondays we sit in a circle, pray together for people we know who are in need and for the needs of the world, and think and discuss together about how we are to live as Christians.
Sunday worship
October
5th 11.00 am Rev. Gethin Rhys - Communion
12th 3.00 pm Civic Sunday
19th 11.00 am Rev. Gethin Rhys – Family Service
26th 11.00 am Rev. David Bownnutt (Treherbert)
November
2nd 11.00am Mr. Don Williams (Cardiff) - Communion
9th 11.30 am Rev. Gethin Rhys – Armistice Sunday
following the service at Porth Cenotaph - 10.30 for 10.45am
16th 11.00 am Rev. Gethin Rhys – Family Service
23rd 11.00 am Rev. Ray Vincent (Bedlinog)
30th 11.00 am Mrs. Margaret Davies (Pontypridd)
December
7th 11.00 am Rev. Gethin Rhys - Communion
14th 6.00 pm Rev. Gethin Rhys – 9 Lessons & Carols
21st 11.00 am Rev. Gethin Rhys - Nativity Service
28th 11.00 am Rev. Ritchie Osborne (Llanharan)