The United Reformed Church

The Nominations Committee searches for people to serve as members, secretaries and convenors of all committees of the General Assembly, the highest decision-making council of the Church.

It also suggests names of representatives on other bodies, and recommends people to make up appointment and review groups for synod moderators and Assembly-appointed staff.

Each synod (region) is represented on the committee, some by their synod clerk or moderator, or by individuals with a good knowledge of the people and their skills in their region. One of the former Moderators of the General Assembly and the General Secretary of the URC are also members.

• Nominations: Assembly committees and other appointments (PDF | 215kb)
• The remits of the Assembly committees (PDF | 162kb)

We make these papers available to the wider URC membership asking that people be aware that they are discussion documents and that many changes may be made as a result of Mission Council decisions.

• Full Mission Council papers November 2018
• Tabled Mission Council papers November 2018

• Mission Council round-up 16-18 November
  

Joy, humility and perseverance

In these three Bible studies that were shared at the November meeting of the Mission Council, the United Reformed Church’s executive body, the Revd Dr Susan Durber, a URC minister in Taunton, focussed on three key virtues or gifts.

Using Paul’s letter to the Philippians, Susan explored the qualities that we might seek to nurture and encourage in ourselves and one another; key characteristics of Christian life; things at the heart of Christian vocation; all things that we need to ask God to nourish within us, especially when life is hard and challenging.

Please download and use these Bible studies.

• Bible studies: Friday 16 November
• Bible studies: Saturday 17 November
  
• Bible studies: Sunday 18 November
  

• United Reformed Church Past Case Review – Findings and recommendations of the learning group

• Minutes 2018 (draft, to be approved at the meeting in May 2019)
• Cover letter
• Groups
• Agenda
• B1 – Children’s and youth work committee – Executive summary of CYWC review report
• B2 – Children’s and youth work committee – Children’s and youth work review report 2018
• B3 – Children’s and youth work committee – CYWC outline strategy
• D1 – Education and learning committee – Honouring the Windermere Centre’s legacy through the discipleship development strategy
• G1 – Finance committee – Budget for 2019
• G2 ­– Finance committee – URC ministers’ retirement costs – making best use of our shared financial resources
• H1 – Ministries committee – Explaining possible variations in operating a call procedure
• H2 – Ministries committee – Non-stipendiary ministry of Word and Sacraments
• I1 – Mission committee – Update on current work
• I2 – Mission and discipleship – Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today – Entering a new phase
• J1 – Nominations committee – List of nominations
• L1 – URC Trust – Windermere and Church House
• M1 – Moderators of Assembly – Listening in the URC: a discussion starter
• M3 – Moderators of Assembly – Recruitment of General Secretary and DGS (discipleship)
• M4 – Report of an Assembly commission
• N1 – Task group on the future of General Assembly – Update
• O1 – Human resources advisory group – Report on recent work
• O2 – Human resources advisory group – Terms of reference
• P1 – Law and polity advisory group – Marriage in Jersey
• R2 – Safeguarding advisory group – Learning from the Past Case Review
• R3 – Safeguarding advisory group – Vetting, disclosure and barring checks
• T1 – MIND (ministerial incapacity and discipline advisory group) – Update
• U1 – Mission Council advisory group – The Greenbelt festival
• U2 – Mission Council advisory group – Future tenure of General Secretary
• Z1 – Church House management group – Terms of reference

Tabled papers 

• Order paper
• J2 – Nominations – Supplementary nominations
• M1 – Moderators of Assembly – Listening in the URC
• M2 – Alan Yates – Back office/front office – what next? 
• M3 – Moderators of Assembly – Recruitment of General Secretary and DGS (discipleship)

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Holy Habits by Andrew Roberts and the accompanying series of study booklets produced by the BRF are recommended for individuals and churches considering what it means to Walk the Way of Jesus in everyday life. On this page you can watch and download videos, posters, samples and other useful materials and information about how you and your church can engage with Holy Habits.

PLEASE NOTE: 

• Copyright information on Holy Habits – please read this information before quoting or using any of the Holy Habits stufy booklets materials in your own publications. Please contact Malcolm Down Publishing if you'd like to quote from the main book.

Holy Habits book, study materials, small group resources and Bible studies

You can learn more about the Holy Habits book by Andrew Roberts and purchase copies from the Holy Habits website.

You can also purchase the BRF's Holy Habits study materials from the URC Bookshop and their small group resources and Bible studies from the BRF website.

URC Holy Habits short films

Directed by Kevin Snyman, Mission Enabler in the URC's West Midlands Synod, these short films offer a brief glimpse into some of the ways which the ten habits from Andrew Roberts' book are lived out wihtin the URC. Released at a rate of one per month through late 2017 into early 2018, you can view the series, as the videos become available, on YouTube (click the three lines in the top left hand corner of the video to view a list of the others):

 Or contact us if you need a copy of any of the films.

URC Holy Habits posters – a free downloadable resource:

Need something to help promote Holy Habits as part of your congregation's explorations into living the life of Jesus today? Check out these free, BRF approved Holy Habits poster designs from the URC, available in various formats,

Biblical teaching

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Breaking bread

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 Eating together

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Fellowship

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Gladness and generosity

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Making more disciples

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Prayer

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Serving

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Sharing resources

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Worship

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A unique resource available as a downloadable pdf. For over 60 years the URC has had a Covenant of Pulpit and Table Fellowship with the Protestant Churches in the Palatinate region of Germany, the ‘Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz’. Drawing on this partnership for the 100 years commemoration of the 1918 Armistice, the URC have been working with our German partners to produce a shared resource, which can be downloaded as two separate booklets.

Entitled ‘One hundred years after the First World War: Looking back, looking forward’, the first booklet contains personal stories, reflections and poems written by British and German contributors. It includes a pilgrimage to the Somme this year undertaken by Pfarrer Martin Henninger from the Pfalz and the Revd David Pickering, Moderator of the Synod in Scotland. Their grandparents served on opposing sides during World War One. An accompanying booklet provides worship material: meditation, prayers, newly written hymns and biblical reflections and closes with a commitment to peace building.

The publication of the resource is timed so that material from the booklets can be used in preparation for remembrance services. We would be grateful if you could publicise the availability of the material, which can be accessed from the home page of the URC website, with an accompanying news story introduction.

We hope this combined British/German initiative will bring a thought provoking dimension to the 100 year commemoration of the end of World War One.

• One hundred years after the First World War: Looking back, looking forward
• Accompanying worship material on the theme