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View in browser | Forward to a Friend June 2019, issue 183 Welcome to The Buzz!        The Buzz brings all members of the Methodist Church in Britain together by sharing good news from across the Connexion. Your stories tell … Continue reading →

The government has announced tougher plans to tackle climate change by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the UK to almost zero by, the year 2050. Under the 2008 Climate Change Act, MPs agreed to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050, but this will now change under the terms of the new law. The… Continue reading →

‘Changing the Conversation around Immigration’ is just one of the activities that will take place at the United Reformed Church’s (URC) base at this year’s Greenbelt festival. And for Refugee Week (17-23 June), Simeon Mitchell, URC Secretary for Church and Society, explains why churches are backing calls for asylum seekers to have the right to work.… Continue reading →

View in browser   |   Forward to a friend 13 June 2019 Hello everyone and welcome to ‘The Week Ahead’. This week, we celebrate Trinity Sunday. Jillian Moody will be staffing the out-of-hours media emergency support line on 020 7467 … Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church’s (URC) film series exploring themes from the Holy Habits recourses concludes with the Holy Habit of Worship. In the film, the book’s author, the Revd Andrew Roberts, notes that increasingly there’s a myriad of different ways in which people can worship God, both collectively and personally. ‘Worship is about so much… Continue reading →

United Reformed Church (URC) members and a URC minister is helping a man whose wife died soon after the Home Office tried to deport them. Fusi Motsamai, and his wife Nancy, both from South Africa, much-loved members of the Woking URC community, had lived and worked in the UK for more than a decade when… Continue reading →

View in browser   |   Forward to a friend 6 June 2019 Hello everyone and welcome to ‘The Week Ahead’. This week, we continue to celebrate Thy Kingdom Come and Pentecost Sunday on 9 June. Jillian Moody will be staffing … Continue reading →

Senior leaders from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) visited their counterparts and staff at United Reformed Church (URC) House on June 5 to share insights about CTBI’s ecumenical work across the four nations. Visitors included Bob Fyffe, CTBI General Secretary; the Revd Peter Colwell, a URC minister and Deputy General Secretary of CTBI;… Continue reading →

Colleagues from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) visited United Reformed Church House (URC) staff on 5 June to share about their ecumenical work across the four nations. CTBI visitors included Bob Fyffe, CTBI General Secretary; the Revd Peter Colwell, a URC minister and Deputy General Secretary of CTBI; Christine Elliott, Director of International… Continue reading →

This year marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal moment in World War Two when Britain and its Allies began to invade Nazi-occupied western Europe. On 6 June 1944, around 160,000 troops took part in the largest seaborne invasion in history when they crossed the English Channel to Normandy. The United Reformed Church (URC)’s… Continue reading →