Church Life - more about us and our activities
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Worship
Every week our church offers the chance to worship, but in different ways and sometimes different places.
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We normally have a fairly traditional form of worship that lasts about an hour on Sunday mornings at 10:30. This is followed by refreshments. Everyone is welcome to come and join us.
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Please note that you won’t be expected to do anything you’d rather not do, there is no money offering in the service (although donations can be taken), and simple guidelines such as ‘Please be seated’ (for example) are given throughout the service.
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On the third Sunday of the month we offer a Zoom service to help those housebound, away on holiday, or just simply for those who prefer it. Feel free to e-mail the church secretary for the Zoom link.
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On the fifth Sunday of the month we do something special with one of our sister churches.
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We have extra worship around special events around Easter, Christmas and other times.
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And sometimes we worship in different ways such as the special jazz service we held in June
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There will be occasional Sundays when we will be worshipping at one of the other churches in our Pastorate (ie Bracknell, Maidenhead or Windsor URC) so please do check the worship diary in our Magazine.
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For more details of visiting preachers and information about worship on specific dates, please see our church magazine – click here
Here is a brief overview for March, April and early May:
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Sunday 8 March - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Rev Maggie Hindley (Communion)
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Sunday 15 March - ZOOM, no service at Christ Church URC
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Sunday 22 March - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Paul Murphy
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Sunday 29 March – Joint service at Maidenhead URC – Stephen Thornton, no
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Sunday 5 April - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Rev Chris Parker – garden at
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Sunday 12 April - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Rob Lewis
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Sunday 19 April - ZOOM, no service at Christ Church URC
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Sunday 26 April February - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Anna Crawford
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Sunday 3 May - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Rev Nicola Furley- Smith
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Sunday 10 May - Christ Church URC, Marlow – Rev Daphne Preece (Communion)
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Sunday 17 May - ZOOM, no service at Christ Church URC
Midweek events
We have some regular events:
House Group
We have a fortnightly house group that meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the month.
This small group often works through a booklet to guide some discussion, but it also works as a great social gathering. For more information please e-mail the church secretary secretary.christchurchurcmarlow@gmail.com
During Lent, House Group will become one of the three Churches Together in
Marlow (CTM) Lent Groups and will meet weekly.
Pastorate Lent Group
Rev Chris Parker will lead a weekly Lent group for all four churches in the Pastorate. Each session will be held twice, once on Zoom and once in person.
The first Zoom session will be at 7.30pm on Tuesday 24 February and the first in person session will be at 10.30 am at Maidenhead URC, West Street, Maidenhead SL6 1RL. All are welcome.
Chat with our Minister
Our Minister, the Rev Chris Parker, can be found at the Ark Café on the first and third Tuesdays of the month between 9.30am and 12 noon. If you would like to have a chat with him, please do drop in at the Ark and join him. You will easily recognise him – he will be the person wearing the dog
collar!
Special Events
We are thrilled to work closely with our sister church in Maidenhead on the Ukraine support work we do, and we are part of the active Churches Together in Marlow (CTM) group. We often do things with other churches. Each year we generally take part in special events for: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Good Friday, Christian Aid week, Marlow Regatta, Carnival, Harvest Thanksgiving, Remembrance, and so much more!
Christ Church URC is delighted to be working with Jam Theatre on an
exciting new venture – Kids’ church. See our new Kids’ Church page for all
the details.
The Garden
Our garden has really become an extension of the church in the past couple of years. With the inauguration of the Walk of Life we have created a community facility for local people and visitors. From time to time, we meet here to worship or to hold a prayer meeting
On Easter Sunday, we will be holding a short service at 9.15 am when we
will decorate the empty cross with flowers.
We also hold a weekly vigil for Ukraine in the garden at 4pm every Sunday
In response to the helplessness many of us feel when we see what is going on in the world (eg in Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan) and in our own country where there seems to be rising feelings of mistrust and misunderstanding between communities, we and River Church are now holding a monthly candlelit vigil for peace, hope and justice in the garden at 5pm on the first Sunday of month. Please join us.
Christian Aid Week
10-16 May 2026
Christian Aid week 10 -16 May 2026
Christ Church has long supported this annual activity, working alongside other churches in Marlow, and will be doing so again in 2026. The focus of this year’s campaign is supporting families in Kenya escape the cruel grip of urban poverty. We are delighted to announce that Gillian Dibden and the Taplow Youth Choirs have again kindly agreed to put on a concert at Christ Church URC at 7pm on 10 May 2026 to raise funds for Christian Aid. Tickets cost £15 (18s and under £7.50) on the door or can be bought online via Eventbrite using this link:
Taplow Youth Choirs Christian Aid concert or the QR code below.
Further details are in the poster.
In the past, the “envelope drop” has been one of the ways we have raised funds for Christian Aid's work relieving poverty, responding to emergencies and disasters (eg the Middle Eastern Humanitarian Appeal, Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal) and helping the world's poorest people to find independence and dignity by supporting long term projects. The Christian Aid co-ordinators at the various churches in Marlow, Little Marlow and Marlow Bottom are however considering the future of the "envelope drop" in Marlow during Christian Aid week as only a small proportion of the envelopes were
returned in 2025. It may be time to find other ways to collect donations.
One way will be online - we will shortly be setting up a fundraising page as usual for anyone who wishes to donate online.
Thanks to all those who continue to support Christian Aid week.
Donations can be made
