Saint David’s Uniting Church
Castle Street, Treforest CF37 1TA
Minister: Revd Clare Nutbrown-Hughes
Church Telephone No: 07766892487
Website: www.stdavidsuniting.org.uk
Admin email: [email protected]
Link for Live Stream – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ftWuXHexnfFdo1FKwXBZA
21st September 2025
We welcome you all to our services today as we enter the second year in Treforest. If you are a visitor or worshipping with us for the first time you are especially welcome.
We are very pleased to once again welcome Revd Aled Edwards who leading our services today and we pray that, through his ministry, we may all receive the blessing that we most need.
Fair-traded refreshments will be served in the hall following the service. We invite you to join us for this time of informal fellowship.
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Pastoral Matters
We only include names when permission has been given.
- We hold the family and friends of Gill Miller in our prayers as they prepare for her funeral which will be held at Glyntaf on 29th September at 2pm.
- The funeral for Cyril Davies will be held on October 10th. We will give more details when we have them. We continue to remember his grandsons, Lloyd, Brenig and Tom, and their families, who were members of our Junior Church, and his daughter Rosemary and her family.
- Clare as she starts her ministry with us and for the seven people who will be received into membership.
- Others of our fellowship who have suffered bereavement in recent weeks.
- People with unexpected Sunday hospital appointments.
Diary for the Week
Monday 22nd Language Class at 10.00am in the hall.
The Park Ramblers will meet to walk at 10.15 followed by coffee in The Blueberry.
Wednesday 24th Public Prayer and Witness 12.30pm outside the Senedd (See below)
Sunday 28th Our minister, Revd Clare Nutbrown-Hughes will lead our worship at 10.45.
Call to prayer for peace in the Holy Land
Christian Aid and Cytun invite us to join them outside the Senedd in Cardiff Bay for a moment of peaceful public prayer and witness.
Clare will be at the Senedd and would be delighted to meet up with anyone from the pastorate who will also be there. Please let Lynda know if you are going.
Next Week’s Service
This will be Clare’s first service as our Minister and it will be a busy one as we will be welcoming 7 New Members: Jan, Emily, Gill, Buffie, Diane, Terry and Annette, and also inducting Ray and Iestyn as serving Elders.
Future Services
October 5th Revd Martin Spain October 12th Zoom with Rev Dr Phil Wall
October 19th Revd Rob May
Birthdays
There two people celebrating their birthday’s this week: Iestyn on Sunday 21st and Marlene McCloy on Thursday 25th. We hope you both enjoy the day!
St David’s Guild
Our Autumn session will start on Wednesday October 1st. We will meet in the usual room at St Catherine’s from 1.45pm. Guild Diaries are available now.
The speaker for our first meeting is Catherine Naamani: her topic is ‘A journey down the Nile’
A request from Colleen
It’s less than 100 days till Christmas!! Could people start thinking if they need any personalised Christmas cards made for them and to get any orders in as soon as possible please.
Time for a change!
Having compiled the weekly newsletter for 11 months of every year for longer than I care to remember, with three different Ministers, I am finally passing the task over to a new pair of hands.
This is the last weekly newsletter! Alison is taking on the challenge of our new Monthly News which will be published on the last weekend of every month.
Alison will need OUR help. Any items for the first edition need to be with her by Monday 22nd September, which should not be a surprise as notice has been given for the last three weeks.
The content of the ‘Monthly News’ is up to all of us. If YOU have any Church News which you would like to be included, please send it directly to Alison either by email [email protected] or by phone.
A reminder of charities we support
Our ‘Copper Pot’ is by the Organ waiting for your ‘small change’, the money is donated to ‘local’ charities; if you have any suggestions for a worthy charity, please make them known.
We collect stamps for Amnesty International, so please check your mail, cut off the stamps – leaving a small border – please remember the barcode is part of the stamp. and put them in the box on the table they will then be recycled to raise funds.
We have supported Pontypridd Foodbank for many years. As most Supermarkets now have donation boxes for food items, we now have a collection box for monetary donations. This is the new logo.
The Leprosy Mission is a cause which several people have supported for many years prior to us being St David’s Uniting Church. Some use collecting boxes others give a yearly donation which is usually collected in November.
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My Final Thought for the Week
Map out your future – but do it in pencil.
The road ahead it is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
John Bon Jovi.