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iChurch boosts online presence
16 May 2022
Since 2008, the United Reformed Church (URC) has been resourcing churches by helping them to establish their online presence. This has been achieved through iChurch, which helps churches to build and maintain an attractive and fully featured website as part of their mission and outreach. iChurch is an out-of-the-box, one-stop shop that’s fully supported and […]
Ministers Gathering 2022: A time of celebrating hospitality
11 May 2022
The Revd Najla Kassab, President of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, spoke at the United Reformed Church (URC) Ministers’ Gathering on Tuesday and Wednesday. She was due to speak on Thursday as well, but has been presented with the opportunity to visit Ukraine and spend time with the Reformed Churches there – so the […]
Ministers’ Gathering 2022: Before the jubilee
11 May 2022
Pádraig Ó Tuama’s first address to the United Reformed Church’s Ministers’ Gathering 2022 was a reflection on the temptations of Jesus as retold in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke, Jesus’ encounter with Satan immediately precedes his return to Nazareth and his proclamation of the “the year of the Lord’s favour” (“jubilee”) in his home […]
Ministers’ Gathering 2022: Who is the United Reformed Church?
10 May 2022
The Revd David Cornick, former Principal of Westminster College Cambridge, and former General Secretary of both the United Reformed Church (URC) and Churches Together in England, led a workshop at the Ministers’ Gathering which explored the history of URC. Explaining that the URC has a complicated DNA, David took ministers through the URC’s 2,000-year-old Jewish […]
Ministers’ Gathering 2022: The URC at 50
10 May 2022
The Revd Dr John Bradbury, the United Reformed Church (URC) General Secretary, spoke to the URC’s Ministers’ Gathering on Monday afternoon, in a talk entitled: ‘The URC at 50: Maturing nicely or mid-life crisis?’ Our world, he said, was turned upside down by the Covid pandemic – embracing new technology, restrictions on funerals, different ways of […]
Hundreds attend Ministers’ Gathering 2022
10 May 2022
Two hundred and fifty of the United Reformed Church Ministers and Church Related Community Workers from the denomination’s 13 synods, are spending four days being refreshed and encouraged at the 2022 Ministers’ Gathering. From 9-12 May, ministers were gifted with time to be inspired and encouraged with a full programme of activities which blended keynote […]
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