Monthly Archives: June 2020

Although the Covid-19 lockdown stopped worship services from physically happening, the Church showed itself to be alive, well and strong. Here’s a selection of good news in and around the United Reformed Church (URC). Read More … … Continue reading →

How must Church change? The July/August edition of Reform addresses this head on, as well as calls for racial justice after the brutal murder of George Floyd. Read More … … Continue reading →

In response to the global Black Lives Matter movement, the United Reformed Church (URC) Youth Executive has released the following statement: Jesus has called us to love our neighbours, and we choose to do this by standing in solidarity with them when they face injustice and persecution. The URC Youth Executive stands with the current movement dedicated to ending the systemic oppression of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals both in the UK and across the world. Read More … … Continue reading →

The Revd John Proctor, General Secretary of the United Reformed Church (URC), makes the following statement after Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced the easing of an array of lockdown restrictions. Read More … … Continue reading →

The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT), a partner of the United Reformed Church (URC), has provided financial support and resources to care homes in the UK that have been affected by Covid-19. The support was arranged by the URC’s mission team in May, backed by the Church’s general secretariat. Read More … … Continue reading →

The Revd Clare Downing, Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) Wessex Synod, has expressed her deepest sympathy after three men died in an attack at a park in Reading on 21 June.  Read More … … Continue reading →

Tuesday 30thJune5:30 – 6:15pm Applying for the JPIT Parliamentary internships this year? The Joint Public Issues Team, in partnership with the Methodist Young Adults Vocation Development Programme, offer two year-long, paid internships working part time with JPIT, and part time … Continue reading →

Today (22 June) marks the third Windrush Day, the 72nd anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush arriving at Tilbury Docks in Essex carrying the first Caribbean migrants to the UK. Many who travelled on the ship, and by other means from various commonwealth countries, were ex-servicemen who fought with the UK in the Second World War and had been invited to a bomb-damaged Britain to fill its labour shortages. Now a national annual event, Windrush Day was established in 2018 in the wake of the Windrush scandal when many of those who had been invited to Britain found themselves subject to a “hostile environment”,… Continue reading →

JPIT’s Simeon Mitchell, who worked in the international development sector for 20 years, offers a personal perspective. It might sound a harmless, even sensible, change. Bringing together the UK’s Department for International Development with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to … Continue reading →

God of Hope, We worship you as the God of those in exile,to whom you hold out the hope of finding peace and security. We pray for those on a journey away from their homes.For sisters and brothers on the … Continue reading →