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A tree outside Southernhay United Reformed Church in Exeter has been shortlisted among the nation’s top ten favourite trees, and needs your vote! The Tree of the Year awards takes place annually and is organised by The Woodland Trust. The winner will be announced on 19 October. The Holm Oak blitz tree outside Southernhay is […]

The Revd Dr Michael Hopkins has been nominated to serve as Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) Wessex Synod after the Revd Clare Downing became the Moderator of the North Western Synod in June. Michael has served in pastoral charge of local churches since his ordination in 2002, and also as Clerk of the […]

The United Reformed Church’s 2023 Advent resource for families, God in the Ordinary, is available for pre-ordering. The focus this year is on helping people find God in their daily lives as well as in the Christmas story. Each pack will contain: A giant poster with a ‘countdown to Christmas’, featuring lots of suggestions for […]

Full To The Brim, The 2024 United Reformed Church (URC) Prayer Handbook is now available to order. The book is edited by the Revd Stephen Ansa-Addo and the Revd Sue McCoan, and its themes of fullness and emptiness run throughout the Bible. The prayers gathered in this book speak of different kinds of fullness – […]

For Disability Awareness Sunday, which takes place on 17 September, the United Reformed Church (URC) Disability Awareness Task Group highlights some of the things that disabled people would like others to know about disability. During the summer, the task group carried out a survey and shared some of the responses in July for Disability Pride […]

A round-up of news from around the United Reformed Church (URC) over the past seven days: 29 August to 5 September. Eastern Synod Thetford URC in Norfolk has found a simple way to show that part of its mission is to bring peace, show peace and pray for peace, by installing a peace pole in […]