Monthly Archives: February 2020

Stephen Tomkins, Editor of the United Reformed Church’s Reform magazine, reflects on the themes of personal growth, humility and forgiveness as we enter the season of Lent. Read More … Continue reading →

More than 50 delegates from the United Reformed Church’s (URC) northerly Synods met in February to discuss a wide range of topics which included ‘new ways of doing church’, effective communication, and sharing good news stories. Read More … Continue reading →

Dreaming about where to take your summer holiday this year? Why not try the United Reformed Church’s (URC) Holiday Forum? For one week every summer, people from all denominations come from across the country to worship God, discuss and discover the faith we share around a central theme, relax, and have fun at the Hayes… Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church’s (URC) West Midlands Synod Trust has become the latest URC body to end investments in fossil fuel companies. At a meeting of the Synod Trust in January, a report showed how the synod had completed its divestment programme. Read More … Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church (URC) is offering prevention advice to congregations around the UK on the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic to help reduce the risk to people. Read More … Continue reading →

The members of Point in View Chapel, in Exmouth, Devon, have planted a small fruit orchard as part of their commitment to God’s creation and their own stewardship of the environment. Read More … Continue reading →

“Larger than life”, “passionate”, “gregarious”, “prophetic”, “infectiously funny” were some of the words used to describe the Revd Dr Michael Jagessar as he was bid farewell. After 12 years of service at United Reformed Church House, Michael is leaving to take up a position with the Council for World Mission as its Mission Secretary for… Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church (URC) at Greenbelt team is seeking 10 additional people to help run a variety of URC activities. Greenbelt is a festival of arts, faith and activism and takes place at Boughton House, Kettering, from 28-31 August across 24 stages, galleries, installations and outdoor performances. The URC, which has been an associate… Continue reading →

Westminster College, a resource centre for learning for the United Reformed Church (URC), welcomed more than 20 URC pioneers of new expressions of church to the first of three events aimed at sharing best practice and ideas. Read More … Continue reading →

The morning of 9 February 1945 started off much like any other at Presbyterian Church House, Tavistock Place, London. Staff arrived at their desks for a busy day of work and by the afternoon, colleagues, delegates, ministers and lay people from across the country gathered for a conference with the newly formed British Council of… Continue reading →