Cheadle Hulme United Reformed Church has joined 8 other URCs in a Missional Partnership to share resourses and mission. We have 2 ministers assigned to this varied and vibrant partnership; Rev Kurauone Mutimwii from Zimbabwe and last year we welcomed a new minister, the Rev Stephanie Atkins. The partnership has the support of South Area Missional Mentor, Mrs Liz Delafield and also just appointed Rev Dave Fraser who will join the team as part time mission support.
Rev Kurauone Mutimwii
Rev Stephanie Atkins
Associated leaders are Mrs Liz Delafield, South Area Mission Mentor, and Rev Dave Fraser, recently appointed part time mission supporter.
Mission Mentor Liz Delafield
Rev Dave Fraser
Ex-ministers…
Ex-Partnership minister, Rev Dr Marion Tugwood, now chaplin with E Cheshire Hospice
Recent ministers, Alan Poolton & Peter Sharp
Rev Jonny Hill
Contact the secretary to arrange Baptisms, Marriages, Funerals or Civil Partnerships – the latter taking place at our sister church Bramhall URC
THE MASTER
Like spokes of a wheel, turning and turning
revolving mankind on the rim of a wheel
does time use man, as a fire that is burning
‘till the wood runs out and there is none left to steal?
Was God cruel or kind , to bind us in time ?
Like fairground ducks all swimming in line.
I follow you, but who follows me?
time shoots us down , one , two , three.
Time, the master that none can fool,
nor ask a pardon , nor break the rule.
Like spokes of a wheel slowly revolving.
The scale of it makes my head swim away.
Who turns the hour glass, and who is controlling
the order of life and my empty days?.
To whom will I account for my wasted time?
To whom will I complain of those ducks – in – line?.
Questions draw nearer to understanding,
still The Master is just as demanding,
none can revoke the sentence of time,
nor can they query their place in the line.
© Rev Alan Poolton January 1986