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In this reflection for New Year, the Revd Jenny Mills, Deputy General Secretary (Discipleship), asks: “Are you planning on making a New Year’s resolution?” I spent a lot of my life making such commitments and consequently a lot of time beating myself up when, inevitably, I fell short. I resolved to change my level of […]

The URC’s Head of Communications, Andy Jackson, takes a Christmas Day trip down memory lane. Christmas Day was always a bit different in our household. This is because our parents worked on Christmas Day. My father is a URC Minister, the Revd Michael Jackson. Not only was I the eldest child of the manse, but […]

A round up of news from around the United Reformed Church over the past seven days, 16-22 December. Wessex Synod With the recent stormy conditions, Petersfield and Liss’ annual Round Table Santa’s Sleigh Event was at risk of complete cancellation. The town’s festival had already been called off. However, Petersfield & Liss stepped in to […]

When you look at your Nativity set nestling peacefully under the Christmas tree what do you see? A holy Mary and Joseph watching over Jesus in the manger. On one side a group of ordinary shepherds, sent into town by an angel and a heavenly choir, on the other three kings who have followed the […]

John Tinniswood, a former Elder at Blundellsands United Reformed Church in Mersey Synod, and the world’s oldest man has died aged 112. John, who died on 25 November at a care home in Southport where he lived, was awarded a Guinness World Records (GWR) in April, aged 111, when he became the world’s oldest living man, following […]

A round up of news from around the United Reformed News over the past seven days, 9-15 December 2024. Wessex Synod There were smiles all round last month as Kirsty Smith was commissioned as a student outreach worker, working across St Columba’s URC, New Road Baptist Church and Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, all in Oxford. […]