Author Archives: URC

The 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, opened at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick on 4 July.  The meeting began with Communion led by the Revd Tim Meadows General Moderator 2025-2025, and with worship led by … Continue reading →

International development agency Christian Aid is inviting people to join a mass lobby calling on MPs to take stronger action on the climate crisis. Thousands of people are due to gather on Wednesday, July 9, at Westminster, to meet with … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →