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Fourteen-year-old James Ineichen, from United Reformed Church Mersey Synod, has been named June’s recipient of the Lundie Memorial Award. James, who was nominated by Susan Frowe, an Elder and Messy Church leader at Christchurch Port Sunlight in the Wirral. Susan describes James as having natural teaching skills. “James is someone the children love working with,” […]

Catriona Wheeler, an Elder and Church Secretary at Trinity URC Lincoln, was inducted as Moderator at the 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, held at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick from 4-7 July. Nominated by East Midlands Synod, Catriona will chair the General Assembly’s November 2025 and July 2026 meetings. Catriona […]

Day four of the 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, held at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, opened with another Bible study led by Dr Francesca Nuzzolese, Professor of Pastoral Care at the Waldensian Theological School in Rome.  Having first turned inward, and then looked at the cost of radical compassion, she then […]

Seven church projects offering outstanding service to their communities have received awards from the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly meeting at The Hayes in Swanwick from 4-7 July. The URC’s Community Awards partner for the past 16 years has been the insurance company Congregational. In 2025, Congregational has funded awards of £2,000 for each of […]

Day three of the 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church General Assembly at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick opened with a Bible study led by Dr Francesca Nuzzolese, Professor of Pastoral Care at the Waldensian Theological School in Rome.  She invited members of Assembly to recreate holy silence they experienced yesterday: centre themselves, meet Jesus […]

The United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly passed an emergency resolution at its 2025 meeting in response to the Israeli government’s profoundly distressing military actions in Gaza. The move follows the lead of the World Council of Churches (WCC), whose Central Committee issued a carefully considered statement during its meeting held in Johannesburg from 18-24 […]