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Day four of the 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, held at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, opened with another Bible study led by Dr Francesca Nuzzolese, Professor of Pastoral Care at the Waldensian Theological School in Rome.  Having first turned inward, and then looked at the cost of radical compassion, she then […]

Seven church projects offering outstanding service to their communities have received awards from the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly meeting at The Hayes in Swanwick from 4-7 July. The URC’s Community Awards partner for the past 16 years has been the insurance company Congregational. In 2025, Congregational has funded awards of £2,000 for each of […]

Day three of the 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick opened with a Bible study led by Dr Francesca Nuzzolese, Professor of Pastoral Care at the Waldensian Theological School in Rome.  She invited members of Assembly to recreate holy silence they experienced yesterday: centre themselves, meet Jesus […]

91ÖÆƬ³§ (URC) General Assembly passed an emergency resolution at its 2025 meeting in response to the Israeli government’s profoundly distressing military actions in Gaza. The move follows the lead of the World Council of Churches (WCC), whose Central Committee issued a carefully considered statement during its meeting held in Johannesburg from 18-24 […]

Day two of the 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick opened with worship led by the Revd Andrew Mann-Ray and Andrea Heron, the chaplains to the General Assembly Moderator, the Revd Tim Meadows. The reading was from Romans 4, about Abraham’s hopeful faith in God’s […]

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 the Revd Andrew Mann-Ray and Andrea Heron, his chaplains.   As Andrew is a lover of […]