{"id":6,"date":"2019-07-26T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:06:20","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"773\" src=\"http:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/urc-1024x773-1024x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/urc-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/urc-1024x773-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/urc-1024x773-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We are a small church in Thurso, a small town on the north coast of Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The church is  open for public worship on Sundays  at 11am, the service lasts for no more than an hour. Tea, coffee and light refreshments are served after the service. Please stay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find us on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/177280420845097\/\">United Reformed Church Thurso<\/a> where hymns, readings and other material is regularly posted. You will also find videos of some of the recent services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our nearest sister URC is the <a href=\"https:\/\/peediekirk.com\">Peedie Kirk<\/a> at Kirkwall on Orkney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Locally, there is a good weekly online service from Thurso Baptist Church  <a href=\"https:\/\/thursobaptistchurch.com\">https:\/\/thursobaptistchurch.com<\/a> available at any time from Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you go to  the URC <a href=\"https:\/\/devotions.urc.org.uk\/todays-daily-devotion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">daily devotions<\/a> website  you can get a short meditation for today on a Bible passage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Our church is located on Castle Street, Thurso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/hhA4gJU6D5dsC6Nx8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a small church in Thurso, a small town on the north coast of Scotland. The church is open&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/#more-6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &#10142; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urcthurso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}