Collinwood Road Church is a congregation of the United Reformed Church, serving the estates of Risinghurst, Sandhills and Barton on the eastern edge of the Oxford suburb of Headington, England. We are a small church, with about 50 members, but have a full programme of activities, covering worship, bible study, community action and fellowship.
We are committed to proclaiming the Gospel: and making the Gospel relevant to today's world.
We are a church with a strong sense of place, committed to representing Christ in a particular place. Despite our limited numbers, we run a range of community activities, including a lunch club for the elderly and a drop-in centre.
Children and young people have a key place in our church life. On Sundays we have a Junior Church; teenagers are taking a major role in the development of our musical life; and we sponsor the 16th Oxford Scout Group
Music is a key part of our praise of God.On most Sunday mornings our small, but enthusiastic choir sings an introit, and we are keen to expand the range of choral music we are able to tackle. We also have a music group, made up largely of younger members of the Church, using guitars, violin, clarinet and other instruments; which is enabling us to develop a more folk/gospel influenced repertoire.
Our denomination, the United Reformed Church, was formed by the merger of Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Churches of Christ, and is the main representative of the Reformed tradition in England. Founded through reuniting traditions that had been separated for hundreds of years, it is committed to working for cooperation and unity amongst Christians. Locally we have a number of ecumenical involvements, and have the very great blessing of being able to share our church building with three other congregations who worship in languages other than English.