Our Mission
Inspired by Jesus, walking his way of radical love to make a difference in this world
Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Dursley Tabernacle United Reformed Church.
We are a welcoming church community centrally based in the Cotswold town of Dursley, Gloucestershire.
We have about 140 church members of all ages with active children and young people’s groups. We seek to be inclusive and diverse and to make a difference to our community in the name of Jesus Christ. The church plays a significant role in the local community running and hosting various community activities.
Have a look in our website and find out how we are fulfilling that mission.
Even better, come and visit us and see if you’d like to be part of our community!
OUR CHURCH SERVICE ON SUNDAY MORNINGS START AT 10.30AM
ALL WELCOME
Sunday Worship led by Rev Simon Helme, 17th November 2024
Tab Youth Film
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Children & Young People
Find out more about the work we do with our families
Christmas at the Tab
Nativity Service
led by the children and young people of the Tab
Sunday Dec 15th 10.30am
Beer and Carols
Sunday 15th Dec at 7pm
under the market hall in Dursley – an ecumenical outreach in liaison with the Hoptician
Open Door Carol Service
Tuesday 17th Dec 7.30pm
Family Cafe Nativity
Wednesday 18th Dec 11am
Tab Food Hub Carol Singing
Thursday 19th Dec 10am
Tab Candlelit Carol Service
Sunday 22nd Dec 6pm
Christmas Eve
5pm Service Around the Tree
a service for all ages, partly in candlelight
11.30pm Candlelight Service at the Quarry Chapel
Christmas Day
10am All Age service to celebrate Christmas
Friends at Christmas
will be serving Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day at the Dursley Methodist Church.
Assisted Dying; URC Report
The URC regards all human life as being God given, and therefore precious. It recognises that there is a time to die and that there are circumstances in which it will be wrong to continue to provide treatment designed to prolong life.
It also recognises that some palliative treatment for the terminally ill makes the patient more comfortable and pain free, but can also hasten death. It believes this to be acceptable, as long as the primary purpose of the treatment is pain relief and comfort of the patient.
The URC does not support legislation that would empower medical staff to intervene in ways which deliberately seek to assist a patient to die, and opposes any change in the law to permit voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide.
You can read more about this in a report from the United Reformed Church, which was compiled in 2007
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is taken seriously in this church.
Our Safeguarding Policy can be found here:
Safeguarding Officer for Children: Bobbie Spears
Safeguarding Officer for Vulnerable Adults: Martine Carter
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Beer & Carols Event
Beer & Carols words Beer & Carols Sunday 15th Dec at 7pm under the market hall in Dursley An ecumenical outreach in liaison with the Hoptician Micro Brewery All welcome
Bible Verses
Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you strength.
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
I can do all this through Him who gives me strength
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.