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For Carers Week 2024, presenter Revd Kate Bottley and the Songs of Praise team visited Elizabeth Grint, a member of Wroxham & Hoveton United Reformed Church in Norfolk to explore the important role that faith plays for those caring for loved ones.  In the episode, broadcast on 9 June, Liz, who cares for her husband […]

A round up of news from around the United Reformed Church over the past seven days, 10-16 June 2024. Southern Synod Ministers, CRCWs and local church leaders from around Southern Synod recently enjoyed four days of inspirational training at High Leigh Conference Centre. Revd Memona Shabaz, called it a “great opportunity to praise, worship, and […]

Rafael (Raff) Chaves has lived with violence, drug addiction, gang culture and complete brokenness. Then, someone asked him a question that changed everything. Ordained a priest in 2022 to the Stepney area of Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets, Raff, from Rio De Janerio in Brazil, speaks to Ann-Marie Nye and Stephen Tomkins in the latest […]

A series of proactive changes have been made within the Mission and Discipleship teams at Church House to broaden the United Reformed Church’s commitment to evangelism, ecumenism and social and community action. In recognition of the close working relationship of the two departments, the changes follow the departure of Simeon Mitchell to the Methodist Church […]

A round up of news from around the United Reformed Church over the past seven days, 28 May-4 June 2024. Wessex Synod Congratulations to the Cllr Revd Julian Macro, a retired URC minister, who was elected Mayor of Verwood in Dorset on earlier this month. Julian’s term in office will run until 2025 and he […]

Does the Church have a problem with class? That’s the big question Reform magazine is asking in June. Four experienced contributors from across the Church spectrum offer thought-provoking responses and challenge us to think about our own. Angela Rigby asks another difficult question when she explores the world of autism and asks if Jesus’ disciple […]