On Sunday 20th May, we were delighted to welcome three people into Church Membership: Jessica, Susan and Margaret . All three have been coming to the church for a while, and it is a great joy that they have now made this deeper commitment. It was particularly appropriate that we should do this on Pentecost […]
In April, more than 340 URC ministers gathered in Staffordshire to spend 4 days being inspired and challenged. The event replaced the annual Spring Schools run by individual synods, allowing ministers from across the entire country to meet and share. The theme for the week was Discipleship. With 2 keynote speakers – Rowan Williams, former […]
The Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) has launched Faith in Politics, a new podcast series featuring special guests discussing current affairs that link with faith. The podcast was created by Helen Byrne and Rachel Allison who are working for the Church as parliamentary interns. Each monthly episode will be presented by Helen and Rachel – both avid podcast listeners […]
Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon at Reformation 500th anniversary service Tuesday 31st October 2017 Read Archbishop Justin Welby’s sermon preached at Westminster Abbey today, during a service marking 500 years since the start of the Reformation. Romans 1:16-17; 3:21-28 John 17:20-26 ‘O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; Mercifully grant, that […]
Dear Friends, As the days shorten, and the leaves fall, November leads us into winter with a season of remembering. From All Saints, through Bonfire Night, to Remembrance Day itself, we look back on people and events that have inspired us and shaped us. This year our remembering started at the end of October, with […]
St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ealing, has held a special service to mark Reformation Sunday, five hundred years after Martin Luther first nailed his 95 Theses to a church door and set off the Protestant Reformation. The church is remembering with sadness the bloodshed and the divisions that followed, even as it celebrates the origins […]
Listen to Sunday Worship which celebrated the centenary of the ordination of Congregationalist Minister, Constance Coltman, the first woman to be ordained to ministry in any mainstream church in Britain. Also to Daily Service, with Dr Janet Wootton on the same theme. Read about a celebration weekend of events. And (quite literally) buy the T-shirt […]
Imagine a church where the one and only priority was to equip disciples for their daily lives. Imagine a church where each person had confidence in the gospel; where each had a clear sense that wherever they were, whatever they were doing, they were part of God’s mission. Imagine a church that cared more about […]
In 2012, the URC organised a conference, ‘Opening the Gates to Heaven’, to explore the theology of worship – not just what we do, but why we do it. A second conference, ‘Treasuring Word and Worship’, followed in 2014. Out of this came two things: a small book ‘In Word and Spirit’, containing the discussion […]
St Andrew’s hosted between 13 and 15 guests as part of the ECWNS project on three Saturday nights/Sunday mornings during March. The guests were homeless men and women who are being given somewhere warm and dry to sleep during the winter months whilst they are finding somewhere to live. The guests arrived at 7.30pm and, after […]
