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The Revd Najla Kassab, President of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, spoke at the United Reformed Church (URC) Ministers’ Gathering on Tuesday and Wednesday. She was due to speak on Thursday as well, but has been presented with the opportunity to visit Ukraine and spend time with the Reformed Churches there – so the […]

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s first address to the United Reformed Church’s Ministers’ Gathering 2022 was a reflection on the temptations of Jesus as retold in the Gospel of Luke. In Luke, Jesus’ encounter with Satan immediately precedes his return to Nazareth and his proclamation of the “the year of the Lord’s favour” (“jubilee”) in his home […]

The Revd David Cornick, former Principal of Westminster College Cambridge, and former General Secretary of both the United Reformed Church (URC) and Churches Together in England, led a workshop at the Ministers’ Gathering which explored the history of URC. Explaining that the URC has a complicated DNA, David took ministers through the URC’s 2,000-year-old Jewish […]

The Revd Dr John Bradbury, the United Reformed Church (URC) General Secretary, spoke to the URC’s Ministers’ Gathering on Monday afternoon, in a talk entitled: ‘The URC at 50: Maturing nicely or mid-life crisis?’ Our world, he said, was turned upside down by the Covid pandemic – embracing new technology, restrictions on funerals, different ways of […]

Two hundred and fifty of the United Reformed Church Ministers and Church Related Community Workers from the denomination’s 13 synods, are spending four days being refreshed and encouraged at the 2022 Ministers’ Gathering. From 9-12 May, ministers were gifted with time to be inspired and encouraged with a full programme of activities which blended keynote […]

If you love singing, join the URC’s 50th anniversary choir! We’re looking for voices in a variety of styles, to reflect the diversity of the denomination, to sing at the Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving on October 1, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster. Members of the choir will receive the music in advance and have a […]