General Assembly papers 2025
Extraordinary General Assembly papers, 14-16 November, 2025
(Papers for the Assembly Executive Budget meeting on Tuesday 25 November can be found here)
GAG
- GAG Sunday 16th November (PDF)
- GAG 15th November (PDF) Latin
- GAG 15th November (PDF) English
Minutes from EGA 2025
Order Papers
Bible Studies
- Bible Study session 1 (PDF)
- Bible Study session 2 (PDF)
- Bible study session 3 (PDF)
Extraordinary General Assembly 2025 Papers
- Covering Letter for Extraordinary General Assembly 2025: 2nd Mailing (PDF)
- Minutes of General Assembly 2025 (Word)
- Church Life Review Papers – Executive Summary (PDF)
- A1 Church Life Review Introductory Paper (PDF)
- A2 Proposal to establish a Church Life Fund (PDF)
- A3 Denominational shared resources hub (PDF)
- A4 Accounting support service for local churches (PDF)
- A5 Options for denominational buying support (PDF)
- A6 Options for IT, payroll, and property shared services (PDF)
- A7 Eido report on models of lay worker employment (PDF)
- A8 Employment of lay workers (PDF)
- A9 New URC communities of discipleship and worship (PDF | 535kb)
- A10 Closure of the CLR – next steps (PDF | 263kb)
- A11 Size of the Church Life Fund (PDF | 150kb)
Standing Orders
(Revised August 2022)
- Standing Orders (PDF | 61kb)
- Standing Orders (Word | 48kb)
Other Documents
- EGA 2025 travel expense claim form (Word | 29kb)
Please email expense claim forms with receipts as attachments to [email protected]
URC Bookshop
Worship at the Extraordinary General Assembly 2025
- Worship List (PDF | 221kb)
- Worship for EGA 2025 text version (Word | 373kb)
General Assembly papers, 4-7 July, 2025
- Record of Assembly 2025 (PDF | 3mb)
- Assembly Business Digest 2025 (PDF | 1mb)
- Assembly Business Digest 2025 (Word | 4mb)
- General Assembly 2025 Agenda (PDF | 225kb)
- Book of Reports 2025 (PDF | 11mb)
- General Assembly 2025 first mailing (PDF | 997kb)
- General Assembly 2025 second mailing (PDF | 620kb)
- Group Session – General Assembly 2025 (PDF | 203kb)
- General Secretary’s Address to the 2025 General Assembly (Word | 36kb)
- Address to the Throne – Draft 4 (PDF | 185kb) (Word | 73kb)
- Nominations List (PDF | 600kb)
Amendments
- Amendment to Resolution 7 – 2025 General Assembly (Word | 14kb)
Order Papers
- Order Paper 1 – Friday 4 July 2025 (PDF | 169kb)
- Order Paper 2 – Friday 4 July 2025 (PDF | 185kb)
- Order Paper 3 – Saturday 5 July 2025 (PDF | 101kb)
Minutes
- Corrected draft minutes Friday 4 July (Word | 19kb)
- Corrected draft minutes Saturday 5 July (Word | 13kb)
- Corrected draft minutes Sunday 6 July (Word | 27kb)
- Minutes Monday 7 July (Word | 12kb)
General Assembly Gossip
- GAG Sneak Peak Issue 3 (PPT | 808kb)
- GAG – Issue 3 (PDF | 3mb)
- GAG – Issue 2 (PDF | 8mb)
- GAG – Issue 1 (PDF | 9mb)
Presentations
- Intersecting Journeys: Addressing the URC General Assembly (PPT | 2mb)
- Rise to Care: A Bible Study (PPT | 9mb)
Morning Prayer and Worship
- General Assembly Opening Worship 4 July (Word | 32kb)
- Morning Worship Saturday 5 July (Word | 21kb)
- Morning Worship Sunday 6 July (Word | 15kb)
- Morning Worship Monday 7 July (Word | 17kb)
- Reflection for Opening Worship (Word | 18kb)
- Rise to Justice (Word | 18kb)
- Risen: General Assembly 2025 artwork (JPG | 714kb)
Business Committee
- A1 Faith in Action Committee Terms of Reference (PDF | 70kb)
- A2 Ministries Committee Terms of Reference (PDF | 88kb)
- A3 Changes to the Committee Structure (PDF | 38kb)
- A4 The Future of the General Assembly and Assembly Executive (PDF | 99kb)
- A5 Terms of Reference and Composition and Name of the General Secretariat (PDF | 71kb)
Business/Education and Learning Ministries Committees
- ADH1 Assessing Education and Learning Need in the URC (PDF | 126kb)
- ADH2 Proposals for capacity and costs in formation of accredited and recognised ministries (PDF | 116kb)
- Additional information for ADH2 (Word | 87kb)
Children’s and Youth Work Committee
- B1 Children’s and Youth Work Committee Final Report (PDF | 131kb)
Children’s and Youth Work/Education and Learning/Ministries/Worship Faith and Order
- BDFH1 Update on a Ministry of Children’s and Youth Work (PDF | 126kb)
Education and Learning Committee
- D1 Discipleship Development Fund (PDF | 57kb)
Equalities Committee
- E1 Equalities Report on Ongoing Work (PDF | 55kb)
Resources Committee
- G1 URC Trust Accounts 2024 (PDF | 33kb)
- Draft Unaudited Accounts (PDF | 918kb)
- G2 Update from Resources Committee (PDF | 66kb)
Ministries Committee
- H1 Basis of Union Paragraphs 19-24: Ministry in the URC (PDF | 60kb)
- H2 Criteria for the 13 new pioneering posts (PDF | 101kb)
- H3 Ministries General Report (PDF | 104kb)
- H4 Review of the URC Retirement Policy (PDF | 300kb)
- H5 Sabbaticals (PDF | 55kb)
- H6 Renaming of Models of Non-Stipendiary Ministry (PDF | 64kb)
Mission Committee
- I1 Report to General Assembly 2025 (PDF | 2mb)
- I2 A Missional Lens for the URC (PDF | 61kb)
- I2 Additional resolution – A Missional Lens for the URC (PDF | 9kb)
Nominations Committee
- J1 Report to General Assembly 2025 (PDF | 66kb)
- J2 Supplementary Report to General Assembly 2025 (PDF | 49kb)
Church Life Review
- N1 Church Life Review Progress Update (PDF | 89kb)
Safeguarding Committee
- T1 Safeguarding Committee Annual Report (PDF | 511kb)
- T2 Safeguarding Training Framework (PDF | 192kb)
Synods
- Synod Moderators’ Report (PDF | 72kb)
- X1 Love’s Farm Church – Eastern Synod (PDF | 36kb)
- X2 Emergency Statement on Israeli Military Activity (Word | 827kb)
- Read the full WCC Statement
Other Information
- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF | 997kb)
- The Hayes travel directions (PDF | 826kb)
General Assembly archive
The Book of Reports and Record of Assembly since the formation of the United Reformed Church in 1972 are available at General Assembly archive