Monthly Archives: June 2025

Prayers on the Street!

Posted on June 30, 2025 by URC

Fliss Barker has been a Church Related Community Worker (CRCW) at the project in Wooler since July 2022. It is both a new project and is the United Reformed Church’s first rural CRCW post. It is also Fliss’ first project, … Continue reading →

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Chaplaincy at Hinkley Point C

Posted on June 30, 2025 by URC

Marie Trubic is a Church Related Community Worker (CRCW) and minsters with two congregations in West Somerset. These are Cannington URC, which is in the centre of the rural village with the same name and Westfield URC, which is in … Continue reading →

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Turning a neglected space in Glasgow into a Community Garden

Posted on June 30, 2025 by URC

Alice, a CRCW in Glasgow, serving both Priesthill and Shawlands URCs describes how a neglected space is being transformed into a beautiful community garden with a little bit of help from the local community. The sun was shining on 3 … Continue reading →

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URC offers prayers around Terminally Ill Adults Bill

Posted on June 30, 2025 by URC

By a narrow margin of 314 votes to 291, Members of Parliament approved the landmark Terminally Ill Adults Bill on 20 June which could bring about major social change by granting terminally ill adults in England and Wales the legal … Continue reading →

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Billingham – supporting prisoners and their families

Posted on June 30, 2025 by URC

Church Related Community Worker; Ann Honey highlights some of the work that goes on behind the scenes in the Billingham CRCW project and reveals how conversations between organisations can lead to some important collaborative work. Recently we have developed a … Continue reading →

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URC General Assembly 2025 to take place

Posted on June 30, 2025 by URC

The 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly is taking place from 4-7 July at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick. General Assembly meets annually to celebrate, discuss, worship and make decisions about the life and work … Continue reading →

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Tactical nuclear weapons won’t provide security

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Littlehampton United

This week the UK government has announced its intention to undertake a new nuclear mission. Keir Starmer indicated that the purchase of 12 US F-35A aircraft will provide the capacity for the UK to threaten states with US-made B61 tactical … Continue reading →

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Reflection on Acts 14:1-7

Posted on June 27, 2025 by URC

On the 4th June 1989, on my 20th birthday, I prepared to travel to Berlin as part of a Mersey Province trip to Germany for Kirchentag, the Protestant biennial congress. There are lots of tales I could tell about that … Continue reading →

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Responding Prayerfully to the Assisted Dying Bill

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Littlehampton United

Following the recent vote on “The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill” in the House of Commons, I know that people with a wide range of lived experiences and perspectives are feeling anxious. In his blog on the bill, JPIT’s … Continue reading →

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Churches Together in England welcomes Revd Dr Tessa, Free Churches Group CTE President for 2025 to 2028

Posted on June 24, 2025 by URC

As her term in office as Moderator of the Free Churches Group begins*, the Revd Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson (TH-R), who also acts as one of the Presidents of Churches Together in England (CTE), spoke to CTE’s Senior Communications Manager, Sarah … Continue reading →

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