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Around the URC in seven days: 20-26 June

20 Jun 2022
Here’s your round-up of local news from around the United Reformed Church (URC) over the past seven days.   East Midlands Synod’s Youth Representative Ella Lemon has organised and undertaken an 87-mile walk with friends and colleagues to raise money for Young Minds, the UK’s leading charity dedicated to the emotional wellbeing and mental health […]

Month-long prayer initiative to launch URC Children

17 Jun 2022
URC Children, a new umbrella for children aged 0 to 12-years-old connected with the United Reformed Church (URC), is being launched in July through a new prayer initiative. All local congregations are invited to ‘Pray like Hannah’ across the month of July for children. Only 21% of those worshipping in local URCs are children, with […]

URC Minister appointed as World Council of Churches Director

16 Jun 2022
The Revd Dr Peter Cruchley, has been appointed the new Director of the World Council of Churches (WCC’s) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME). Based in the United Reformed Church West Midlands Synod, Dr Cruchley is currently the Mission Secretary for the Council for World Mission. He has served in this role since 2016. […]

Four ‘shining lights’ gain Lundie Memorial Award

15 Jun 2022
Warm, caring, enthusiastic, and talented are just some of the words used to describe the latest recipients of the United Reformed Church (URC) Lundie Memorial Award. Four-year-old Cleo Ward, from the URC Southern Synod, is June’s winner. Cleo is described as “a shining light in the fellowship of the Church” by Pam Tolhurst, a local […]

Maidenhead URC maintain tireless support for Ukraine

13 Jun 2022
A group of volunteers, operating out of Maidenhead United Reformed Church, are continuing to send boxes upon boxes of donations to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Since March, four trucks full of donations have made the trip from the church, which has served as a base for people to drop off essential items, to Poland. Plans […]

URC members travel to Germany to see Oberammergau Passion Play

08 Jun 2022
Members and friends from all around the United Reformed Church travelled to Germany in May to see the famous Oberammergau Passion Play.  A group of just of over 50 people, led by the Revd Dr Michael Hopkins, Clerk of the General Assembly and Minister of The Spire Church Farnham in Surrey, spent a few days […]
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