Kirkgate Parish Church, Saltcoats, Scotland

Sunday Service for 11th October 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Mr Gordon Walker

Opening Voluntaries include:
Liturgical Miniatures – Dom Andrew Moore

Welcome & Intimations

MP 99: Come on and celebrate!
CCLI Song # 189511– Dave Bankhead | Trish Morgan
© 1984 Thankyou Music Ltd

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

MP 30: Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks
CCLI Song # 32376 – Donald E. Fishel
© 1973 International Liturgy Publications

Offering: Pearl Fisher’s Duet – Bizet

Reading: Galatians 2: 15-21

CH4 726: When we are living
CCLI Song # 4729860 – John L. Bell | Roberto Escamilla
© Words: 2002 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland; Music: Public domain – Spanish traditional melody

Sermon

MP 469: My faith looks up to thee
CCLI Song # 43334 – Lowell Mason | Ray Palmer
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer

CH4 159: Lord for the years
CCLI Song # 3274952 – Timothy Dudley-Smith
© 1976 Dudley-Smith, Timothy (Admin. by Oxford University Press)

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Trumpet Voluntary – Jeremiah Clarke

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 27th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Rev. Katrona Templeton

Opening Voluntaries include:
Organ Hymn – Raymond Haan
Pavane – Fauré

Welcome & Intimations

MP 469: My faith looks up to thee
CCLI Song # 43334 – Lowell Mason | Ray Palmer
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

MP 1039: Colours of day
CCLI Song # 550092 – John Paculabo | Keith Rycroft | Sue McClellan
© 1974 Thankyou Music Ltd

Offering: Gabriel’s Oboe – Ennio Morricone

Reading: Ephesians 2: 8-10

CH4 555: Amazing Grace
CCLI Song # 2762836 – John Newton
© Words & Music – Public Domain

Sermon

CH4 554: Rock of ages
CCLI Song # 40588 – Augustus Montague Toplady | Thomas Hastings
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer

CH4 396: And can it be
CCLI Song # 25280, Charles Wesley  | Thomas Campbell
© Words: Public Domain. Music: Public Domain

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Trumpet Voluntary – John Stanley

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 20thSeptember 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Reev. Katrona Templeton

Opening Voluntaries include:Prière à Notre-Dame – BoëllmanVoluntary No. 4 in F – BoëllmanQuiet Voluntary in C - Boëllmann

Welcome & Intimations
CH4 547: What a friend we have in Jesus
CCLI Song # 27714 – Charles Crozat Converse | Joseph Medlicott Scriven
© Words and Music: Public Domain
Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk
CH4 600: Spirit of God, unseen as the wind
CCLI Song # 1539476 – Margaret V. Old
© Words: 1971 Scripture Union. Music: Public Domain

Offering: Gabriel’s Oboe - Morricone
Reading: John 15: 1-11

MP 760: When we walk with the Lord
CCLI Song # 22094 Daniel Brink Towner | John Henry Sammis
© Words: Public Domain. Music: Public Domain

Sermon
CH4 580: Abide with me
CCLI Song # 43190 – Henry Francis Lyte | William Henry Monk
© Words and Music: Public Domain

Prayer
CH4 644: O Jesus, I have promised
CCLI Song # 2399773 – John Ernest Bode
Words: © Public Domain. Music: “Thornbury” © Basil Harwood (1859-1949)

Benediction & ThreeFold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Loud Voluntary No. 1 in C. - Boëllmann

Licensing - CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 13th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya and Rev Katrona Templeton

Opening Voluntaries include:
Cantabile No. 5 – Rien Schalkwijk
Tranquility – Rien Schalkwijk
Autumn Whistle – Rien Schalkwijk

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 124: Praise to the Lord
CCLI Song # 43073 – Catherine Winkworth | Joachim Neander
© Words and Music: Public Domain

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

CH4 204: I am the Church
CCLI Song # 18510 – Donald Stuart Marsh | Richard Kinsey Avery
© 1972 Hope Publishing Company

Reading: 1 Peter 2: 9-10

CH4 392: When I survey the wondrous cross
CCLI Song # 721333 – Edward Miller | Isaac Watts
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Sermon: I am part of God’s family

CH4 457: All hail the power of Jesus’ name
CCLI Song # 7047742 – Edward Perronet | William Shrubsole
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer

CH4 200: Christ is made the sure foundation
CCLI Song # 2448277 – Henry Purcell | John Mason Neale
© Words and Music: Public Domain

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Prelude on Lobe der herren – Paul Fey

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 6th September 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya

Opening Voluntaries include:
Gloria – Vivaldi
Song Without Words – WS Lloyd Webber
Meditation on ‘Stracathro’ – WS Lloyd Webber

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 531: My Jesus, My Saviour
CCLI Song # 1406918 – Darlene Zschech
© 1993 Wondrous Worship  (Admin. by Song Solutions www.songsolutions.org)

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

CH4 549: How deep the Father’s love
CCLI Song # 1558110 – Stuart Townend
© 1995 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music)

Offering: Aria – WS Lloyd Webber

Reading: 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21

CH4 225: Summer suns are glowing
CCLI Song # 715710 – Samuel Smith | William Walsham How
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Sermon: I am a new creation

MP 329: In Christ there is no east or west
CCLI Song # 2608952 – John Oxenham | William Jones
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Invitation to Communion

CH4 19: Ye gates lift up your heads on high
Psalm 24, The Scottish Psalter, 1929 | William Croft | Andrew Mitchell Thomson
Music & Words: Public Domain

Sacrament of Holy Communion

Prayer

MP 536: The Old Rugged Cross
CCLI Song # 19722 – George Bennard
© Words & Music: Curb Word Music

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Triumphant March – WS Lloyd Webber

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 23rd August 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya

Opening Voluntaries include:
Prelude & Fugue in Cmin – JS Bach
Prelude & Fugue in F – JS Bach

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 111: Holy, holy, holy
CCLI Song # 1156 – John Bacchus Dykes | Reginald Heber
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

MP 128: Father God, I wonder
CCLI Song # 58202 – Ian Smale
© 1984 Thankyou Music

Offering: Caro Mio Ben – Giordani

Readings: Genesis 3: 1-13; and Romans 3: 23

CH4 559: There is a redeemer
CCLI Song # 11483 – Melody Green
© 1982 Ears To Hear Music

Sermon: You are broken, but not abandoned

CH4 448: Lord, the light of your love is shining
CCLI Song # 30426 – Graham Kendrick
© 1987 Make Way Music (Admin. by Make Way Music Limited

Prayer

CH4 564: Jesus loves me, this I know
CCLI Song # 1187 – Anna Bartlett Warner | William Batchelder Bradbury
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Trinity Procession on Nicaea – Phil Lehenbauer

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 16th August 2026 at 10.45am with Rev. Nigel Chikanya

Opening Voluntaries include:
Amazing Grace – Paul Fey
Look at the world – John Rutter
Voluntary 2 in D – William Croft

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 147: All Creatures of our God and King
CCLI Song # 1503 – St. Francis of Assisi | William Henry Draper
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

JP 94: If I were a butterfly
CCLI Song # 35445 – Brian Howard
© 1975 Mission Hills Music

Offering: For the beauty of the earth – John Rutter

Reading: Genesis 1: 26-28

MP 1072: In Christ alone
CCLI Song # 3350395 – Keith Getty | Stuart Townend
© 2001 Thankyou Music (Admin. by Integrity Music Ltd)

Sermon: You bear his image

CH4 502: Take my life, Lord, let it be
CCLI Song # 2873921 – Frances Ridley Havergal | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer

CH4 251: I, the Lord of sea and sky
Words and Music: Dan Schutte, © 1981, OCP Publications, 5536 NE Hassalo, Portland, OR 97213, USA

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Improvisation on Lasst uns erfruen – Stuart McMahon

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 9th August 2026 at 10.45am with Katrona Templeton and David Fidler

Opening Voluntaries include:
Farewell to Stromness – Peter Maxwell Davies
At the Ferry from “Idylls of Iona” – Julian Nesbitt

Welcome & Intimations

Call to Worship

MP 167: Give me oil in my lamp
CCLI Song # 4755580
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer
Reading: Mark 16: 15-19

Homily

Offering uplifted during Song: This little light of mine
CCLI Song # 5317642 – Stephen M. Lee
© Words: Public Domain; Music: 1998 Professional Music Services, Inc.

Prayer

Groups

Prayer

CH4 804: You shall go out with joy
CCLI Song # 20546 – Steffi Geiser Rubin | Stuart Dauermann
© 1975 Lillenas Publishing Company

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Fanfare – Lemmens

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 2nd August 2026 at 10.45am with Graeme Stewart

Opening Voluntaries include:
Quanta Qualia – Patrick Hawes
Many Waters – Patrick Hawes
Reflexionem – Patrick Hawes

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 153: Great is thy faithfulness
CCLI Song # 18723 – Thomas Obediah Chisholm | William Marion Runyan
© Words & Music: 1923. Renewed 1951 Hope Publishing Company

Prayer
Children’s / All Age Talk

CH4 694: Brother, sister, let me serve you
CCLI Song # 72673 – Richard Gillard
© Words & Music: 1977 Universal Music – Brentwood Benson Publishing (Admin. by Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing, Inc.)

Offering: To a wild rose – Edward Macdowall

Reading: Psalm 145

CH4 378: Praise to the holiest in the height
CCLI Song # 7014642 – John Bacchus Dykes | John Henry Newman
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Sermon: What is God like?

CH4 724: Christ’s is the world in which we move
CCLI Song # 872196 – Graham Maule | John L. Bell
Words & Music: 1989 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland

Prayer

CH4 718: We cannot measure how you heal
CCLI Song # 4751065. Graham Maule | John L. Bell
© Words & Music: 1989 WGRG, c/o Iona Community, Glasgow, Scotland (Admin. by Wild Goose Resource Group)

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals (alla Handel) – Karg Elert

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.

Sunday Service for 26th July 2026 at 10.45am with Rev Katrona Templeton

Opening Voluntaries include:
Largo (from New World Symphony) – Dvorak
Theme from Ladies in Lavender – Nigel Hess

Welcome & Intimations

CH4 196: Come, now is the time to worship
CCLI Song # 2430948 – Brian Doerksen
© 1998 Vineyard Songs (UK/Eire)

Prayer

Children’s / All Age Talk

MP 225: He’s got the whole wide world
CCLI Song # 33681
© Words: Public Domain, Music: arr.1987 Phil Burt

Offering: Ave Verum – Mozart

Reading: 2 Kings 6: 1-7

CH4 493: It’s me, it’s me, O Lord
CCLI Song # 1581314 – Peter D. Smith
© 1967 Stainer & Bell Ltd

Sermon: When small things matter

CH4 737: Will your anchor hold
CCLI Song # 47031 – Priscilla J. Owens | William James Kirkpatrick
© Words & Music: Public Domain

Prayer

MP 454: Majesty, worship your majesty
CCLI Song # 1527 – Jack Hayford
© 1981 Rocksmith Music, admin by Leosong Copyright Services Ltd

Benediction & Three Fold Amen
Closing Voluntary: Grand March from Aida – Verdi

Licensing – CCL: #154670, Streaming Plus Licence: #1454711, PRS DML for Worship: LC-004308. All hymns are played as original content and sung by the congregation of Kirkgate Parish Church during the live broadcast.