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The winter meeting of Assembly Executive 2025 is to take place at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick from 3-5 February. Assembly Executive is the executive body of the United Reformed Church’s General Assembly, meeting yearly to review and continue its work. Items on the agenda include such as the future of General Assembly Committee […]

A round up of news from across the United Reformed Church over the past seven days 19-26 January 2025. East Midlands A warm celebration was held at Fountain Square Church in Tideswell recently for the induction of the Revd Carole Marsden. Alongside her full-time ministry as Community Warden at Cliff College, Carole will serve as […]

Jamie Laird, a member of High Cross (United Reformed & Methodist) Church in Wessex Synod, recently returned from an adventure of a lifetime. With the help of a £500 Children’s and Youth Work grant, Jamie secured a spot as a volunteer with Travelteer, a responsible travel and ethical volunteering company, working on an inspiring marine […]

The United Reformed Church is sad to announce the death of the Revd Dr Robert John McKelvey, the Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly from 1994-1995, at the age of 95. Known as Jack, Revd McKelvey was born in 1929 in Northern Ireland and studied at Nottingham and Oxford. After a New Testament […]

The United Reformed Church (URC) has sent greetings to the United Church of Zambia (UCZ) on its 60th anniversary. On January 16, 1965, the UCZ was formed with four separate missions coming into union representing different Christian traditions. These were the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS), The London Missionary Society (LMS), the Methodists and the […]

Inside the first issue of Reform magazine for 2025: A Buddhist chaplain is among those who ask whether values more important than beliefs in the latest issue of Reform, and Heather Moore reflects on her year as URC Youth President. She says the Church’s Youth Executive “epitomises how the URC values its young people”. We […]