10:30am Sunday: main service, followed by coffee and chatting time.

We have a a regular rotation of visiting preachers and our own worship team leading the services on Sundays.

10:15 am Thursday: prayer service. A short service with  no singing,  followed by coffee and chatting

A gentle sincere and warm welcome is extended to all.

To enhance the space and uplift our spirits flowers are donated and arranged by church members in thanks for the love we share.

Summer 2025 at Christchurch URC

Sevenoaks was a creative hotbed, as visiting preachers and members of the congregation created content for a variety of services…no mean feat to fill every Sunday with our own brand of worship without our own minister.

Among the offerings, in August, was a service dedicated to our Creator God, led by our worship team, in a sun-filled church. Besides singing some of our and the nation’s favourite hymns like All things bright and beautiful, congregants got busy and composed poems inspired by nature.

Claire Johnson, undoubtedly the most green-fingered among us, was inspired at her allotment – whose produce she shares with us all – to compose the following poem.

Have you noticed how often animals get featured in creation stories and beautifully filmed nature documentaries?  Some people are feeling rather left out

Why do the animals get all the attention?

The Oak spoke
The Aspen shook
The Apple appealed
The Moss moaned
The Seaweed waved
The Cosmos turned
The Roses rose
The Groundnut growled
The Viola sang “ I’m in tune “
The Lettuce said Let us shout
Why do the animals get all the attention?

We provide food
We clean the air
We replenish the soil
We’re in the Bible!
We’re in the Book!
We’re all around wherever you look
So why do the animals get all the attention?

© 2025 Claire Johnson

While Suzy Valentine, took inspiration from a poem written by Ruth Burgess, National Insect Week, to write several more stanzas on what our six-legged friends bring to this world.
National Insect Week Part 2
The etymologist knows that
The entomologist studies insects not spiders…for God

The cockroach in the ballroom
Cucarachas to God
Bugs are bugging everyone about God
The butterfly flies in the butter
And flutters by to God
Float like a butterfly…sting like a bee…for God
Flies in the sugar bowl shoo shoo shoo to God
The dragonfly around the pond
Will drag on to God
Ants in your pants
Are antsy for God
The Katydid chirped
About what Katy did for God
(On Black Friday) The locust is stripping
The Low-cost store before God
If a fly is going up the wall and a flea is coming down …what’s the time in China?
Fly past flea….one of my mother’s worst jokes…so help me God
The termite, in its term, might terminate wood for God
The mosquito must ‘e go to God?
Elon Musk ‘e go to God?
The grasshopper hops through the grass (ah glasshopper) for God
Lady Bird became the first lady for God
The waspish wasp is whispering
Was P….eter true to God?
Was P….aul testimony to God?
The cricket (Jiminy) is chirruping
Always let your conscience be your guide…to God
Another cricket says this just isn’t cricket to God
The praying mantis
Is praying: Man Tis God incarnate….to God
Two Bees or not bees
That is the question…(my question)…for God.

© 2025 Suzy Valentine