Monthly Archives: March 2018

The Methodist Church 22 March 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Hi everyone, and welcome to The Week Ahead. This week we’ll be marking Palm Sunday and looking forward to Easter. You can also discover what happened at last week’s … Continue reading →

Day one – Monday 19 March 2018 session one Opening Worship The March meeting of Mission Council opened at the High Leigh Conference Centre with prayers and a sermon led by the Revd Mark Robinson, Chaplain to the Revd Kevin Watson, Moderator of the General Assembly. Read More … Continue reading →

Alan Yates, Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, and many other senior URC staff, joined the Most Revd John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, on what has been described as ‘the largest-ever ecumenical regional-mission’ to Cumbria. Thirty-three teams – made up of Anglicans, Methodists, the Salvation and the URC – reached an estimated 25,000… Continue reading →

The Methodist Church 15 March 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Hello everyone, and welcome to The Week Ahead. This week, we’ll be holding those attending the JPIT conference in our prayers. Andy Jackson will be staffing the out-of-hours … Continue reading →

As the lonely single mother of an only son I thought a lot about Mary in the early days of my motherhood. Christ’s last words from the cross, according to John 19:26, consign Mary to the care of the disciple whom he loved. In the midst of appalling pain, he is human and humane, ordinary… Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church welcomed a special visitor for a meeting with staff and tour of Church House on 12 March. Dr Deidre Palmer, President-elect of the Uniting Church in Australia, visited the URC’s London office while on a short holiday with her family. Dr Palmer met with the Revd John Proctor, URC General Secretary,… Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church Mission Council is next meeting at High Leigh Conference Centre, in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire from 19 to 21 March.  Mission Council is the executive body of the General Assembly, and meets twice a year to reflect on and make decisions about the day-to-day life of the Church. Items on the agenda for… Continue reading →

The Methodist Church 8  March 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Hi everyone, and welcome to The Week Ahead. This week we’ll be marking International Women’s Day today and Mothering Sunday. Mike Ivatt will be staffing the out-of-hours support line … Continue reading →

The call for International Women’s Day 2018 is for women around the world to #PressforProgress. The Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, former Moderator of the United Reformed Church’s General Assembly and Minister of Wilmslow United Reformed Church, explores why International Women’s Day is worth marking. Why does International Women’s Day matter? Because the headlines about sexual… Continue reading →

A project exploring the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade held its third hearing in Jamaica in February. The hearing was part of a series of four, launched by the Council for World Mission (CWM) on 12 November 2017. The first hearing was held in London, the heart of the British slave trading system. The… Continue reading →