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General

The United Reformed Church Worship Book contains downloadable material for Holy Communions, Baptisms, confirmations, weddings, funerals, ordinations, inductions, and public worship.

Book One

All pages Book One

Book Two

Extra Material

All pages Book Two

 

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Resources to help you and your church engage with worship and spirituality in meaningful and relevant ways in your context. Here you will find prepared material ready-to-use in gathered worship and personal devotion. These sources are many, representing the variety of worship experiences in the United Reformed Church and our ecumenical partners.

 


The Daily Devotions from the United Reformed Church offers you a Bible reading, reflection and prayer for every day of the year. They can be sent to you by email, viewed on a website or on a Facebook page. The devotions are written by a team of writers from different places and perspectives in the URC. To sign up to receive the devotions by email, please visit this website. You can opt out of the emails at anytime, and select whether you'd like the devotions as plain text, in HTML (webpage) format, or in a mobile phone-friendly format.

 

 Suggested worship resources

Advent

Holy Week and Easter

Lent

Pentecost/Whitsunday

Pentecost Season/Ordinary Time

Season of Creation (1 September - 4 October)

The Season of Creation (also called Creation Time and Creationtide) invites the Christian family to celebrate the good gift of creation, confess our abuse of creation and listen for God’s call to action and advocacy.

The Season of Creation website details activities and resources to celebrate the Season of Creation through prayer and worship, advocacy and sustainability projects.  

Extensive free worship resources are available from: 

Baptism

Communion

Baptism and Communion

Funerals and memorial services

You can download more worship materials for the Sacraments and funerals on our Worship Book page. 

Environment Sunday

Environment Sunday (also called Eco-Sunday or Climate Sunday) might be held during the Season of Creation (1 Sept-4 Oct) or any other time of the year.  It’s an opportunity to focus on our environment and our responsibility as stewards of God’s creation, especially as we face Climate Change, animal extinctions and other impending events.

Worship resources are available from:

The URC Children & Youth Work has created a complete worship service on YouTube which can be shared during Season of Creation, on an Eco-Sunday or any time in the year. It highlights prayers and poems written by URC children: https://youtu.be/F1vyNrWb0w8

Harvest

Mothering Sunday

Remembrance Sunday

Walking the Way Sunday

Prayer

Bible study

  • Lectio Divina or ‘holy reading’ is a meditative and worshipful way of reading a passage of scripture

Spirituality

A video highlighting newly ordained URC Ministers and Commissioned Church Related Community Workers.

Please feel free to incorporate it into worship or shared on your church website.    

  • 'Road to Emmaus' - hymn written by Revd Ray Stanyon, Wessex Synod    

  • 'Were you there…' - originally written by William Ebenezer Barton, recorded for today by Revd Ray Stanyon, Wessex Synod

  • Advent hymn 'The Waiting’ - (tune: The old rugged cross) by Sam Goodman, Elder at Central United Reformed Church in Derby

  • Sunflowers and Thistles free resources from the URC to help you and your church explore Black Lives Matter and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the unequal effect it has had in BAME communities

What we believe

The beliefs of the denomination are perhaps best summed up in our Statement concerning the Nature, Faith and Order (PDF | 493kb) of the United Reformed Church.

We say these words together on some of our big public occasions and they provides a vivid snapshot of what we are about. Those with well-tuned historical antennae will be able to pick up all sorts of references to our sometimes turbulent past and to issues that are still divisive among us. For those who say these words, some commentary may be helpful, along with an invitation to enter the debates. When the deeper implications of these phrases are appreciated they become not empty words to be parroted, but spine-tingling testimony to the kind of church we are or hope to be. 

What is the URC? 

What is the URCA brief introduction to the United Reformed Church that tells you about our beliefs, history, structure and how you can get involved. 

 

 

 

Find out more about us

If you would like to know more about what we believe then the course detailed below is a good place to start.

This five-session course is designed for small groups of young people or adults in local churches; those preparing for church membership, those who are new to the United Reformed Church or for those who, for whatever reason, want to deepen their understanding of our traditions and beliefs.

Five session course pdf downloads for A4 printing
Session one – A faithful Church  download
Session two – A church based on the Bible download
Session three – Part of the one great Church, with a particular story of our own download
Session four – A church that affirms freedom download
Session five – A church praying and working for unity download
Statement of the Nature, Faith and Order of the United Reformed Church download
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In the United Reformed Church issues of faith and order are addressed by the Faith and Order Committee. More information on its scope and remit can be found here.

 

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