Skinner Street
United Reformed Church, Poole
Summer at Skinner Street.
The Community Garden is taking shape and the Prayer Labyrinth is a quiet space to walk through with your thoughts. You are welcome to share this space and the sanctuary of the Church.
Sunday morning services commence at 10.30am and Thursday morning Prayers and Coffee at 10.15am will welcome you.
August is already well along, with some good summer sunshine! Many folk are on holiday or have family visiting but Sunday Worship continues at 10.30am, welcoming anyone who joins us. Life is busy, hard and complicated for many but an hour spent in collective worship, with good hymn singing to our organ, can be uplifting and calming. On some Sundays, tea and coffee is served after the service giving more opportunity to chat and fellowship.
The church is still decorated with an Olympic Theme and is most impressive. Together with the booklet Tricia has prepared showing how games, fair play, countries uniting benefit us all, it makes good reading.
In September there will be Open Days, Saturday 7, Thursday 12 and Saturday 14 September so we can showcase this interesting Grade 11* building together with telling more of both the religious and social development and how it became such an important part of Poole. These days are in conjunction with the Dorset Heritage Architectural Week and the Ride and Stride fundraiser for Dorset Historic Churches Trust. Some members of our congregation are walking for this event and sponsors are encouraged! Please email grn23g@gmail.com to sponsor, thank you!
The Harvest Service is on Sunday 20 October 10.30 am.
Our weekly PRAYER MEETING ON THURSDAY’S 10.15am followed by coffee and chat are an opportunity to meet friends and get any support you may need.
The Monthly Newsletters will be available on this website, giving the latest news of what is happening and who will be leading our services.
A warm welcome to all who would like to join in traditional but 'not stuffy’ Christian worship.
We are currently without a Minister so our services are led by an interesting variety of lay and professional people.
Poole's oldest church building
Worship Fellowship Community history
A very warm welcome to Skinner Street United Reformed Church. Please use the menu at the top or bottom of this page to find out more about us and what we do here. We would be delighted to see you at our Sunday services or community activities, and you will be just as welcome if you simply want to visit this fine example of an 18th-century nonconformist chapel which continues to play an important part in the lives of many people here in Poole.
Our mission
Guided by the Holy Spirit we aim to show the love of God the Father for everyone by sharing the work of his Son, Jesus Christ, among our neighbours in Poole and the wider world.
Looking from the west gallery towards the pulpit and the organ Photograph: Nick Robinson/Skinner Street URC