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Seventy-four people attended the first in a series of webinars to help congregations become places where people at the margins are loved, nurtured and empowered. Hosted by Roo Stewart, Head of Public Issues, in collaboration with Mike Hart, Transformation Director for North Western Synod, the first webinar, held on 16 February, explored themes such as […]

Still wondering what to give up for Lent? The message from a leading Christian climate charity is to use this season to care for creation and reduce carbon footprints. The Carbon Fast campaign is being run by Climate Stewards, part of the A Rocha family of organisations. The organisers say a carbon fast is “about […]

For Lent,  Lent, beginning on 18 February, Fliss Barker, Church Related Community Worker for Wooler United Reformed Church (URC) in Northumberland, invites us to view the season as a time of renewal and not resolution: This year, I’ve set myself a big challenge of actually keeping some of my New Year’s Resolutions. Things like leaving […]

81 years ago, on 9 February 1945, the Presbyterian Church in England (PCE) lost some of its leading figures when a V2 rocket fell close to the denomination’s offices in London. PCE was one of the Church denominations that joined to form the United Reformed Church (URC), and Presbyterian Church House stood on the site […]

What began as a dream has grown into a thriving faith community at a secondary school in West Midlands Synod. Eva Nicholls, aged 17, a pupil at King Edward VI School in Lichfield, had a dream about having a Bible study at King Edward IV’s high school in Lichfield. Eva shared her dream with the […]

The 2026 meeting of the United Reformed Church (URC) Assembly Executive opened on 7 February online with a welcome by the Catriona Wheeler, Moderator of the URC General Assembly 2025-2026. Session one Opening Worship was led by the Revd Jane Wade, Chaplain to the Moderator, who called the meeting to centre its work in God’s […]