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Covid-19 infections continue to spread, although the lower ‘R-value’ shows that the infection rate is slowing. Restrictions imposed by our various Governments have been lifted. However, many people who form, and are served by, our churches are still vulnerable. Many now see the risks from COVID-19 as being lower because of vaccines and seasonal factors. […]

A group of volunteers, operating out of Maidenhead United Reformed Church, are continuing to send boxes upon boxes of donations to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Since March, four trucks full of donations have made the trip from the church, which has served as a base for people to drop off essential items, to Poland. Plans […]

Members and friends from all around the United Reformed Church travelled to Germany in May to see the famous Oberammergau Passion Play.  A group of just of over 50 people, led by the Revd Dr Michael Hopkins, Clerk of the General Assembly and Minister of The Spire Church Farnham in Surrey, spent a few days […]

When Her Majesty the Queen celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in June, United Reformed Churches and LEPs rolled out the red, white and blue carpets to welcome members and friends for hundreds of activities over the extra-long Bank Holiday weekend. Andy Jackson found some jubilee gems: St Columba’s URC, North Shields, offered a fabulous recreation of […]

The United Reformed Church (URC) is deeply saddened to hear about the sudden death of the Revd Elizabeth Clark, who served as the National Rural Officer for both the URC and the Methodist churches until her retirement in August last year. An announcement from The Arthur Rank Centre, the ecumenical charity which resources, trains, and […]

‘It should feel costly.’ This month, Reform is asking the question facing the United Reformed Church at General Assembly: how should the Church respond to the legacies of slavery? Our interviewee, Cole Arthur Riley, creator of ‘Black Liturgies’, says that we should give dear enough reparations that ‘it should feel like a loss.’ Others have […]