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“Larger than life”, “passionate”, “gregarious”, “prophetic”, “infectiously funny” were some of the words used to describe the Revd Dr Michael Jagessar as he was bid farewell.
After 12 years of service at United Reformed Church House, Michael is leaving to take up a position with the Council for World Mission as its Mission Secretary for Europe.
The United Reformed Church (URC) at Greenbelt team is seeking 10 additional people to help run a variety of URC activities.
Greenbelt is a festival of arts, faith and activism and takes place at Boughton House, Kettering, from 28-31 August across 24 stages, galleries, installations and outdoor performances.
The URC, which has been an associate partner of Greenbelt since 2016, will give a free weekend ticket to those selected to volunteer.
Westminster College, a resource centre for learning for the United Reformed Church (URC), welcomed more than 20 URC pioneers of new expressions of church to the first of three events aimed at sharing best practice and ideas.
The morning of 9 February 1945 started off much like any other at Presbyterian Church House, Tavistock Place, London.
Staff arrived at their desks for a busy day of work and by the afternoon, colleagues, delegates, ministers and lay people from across the country gathered for a conference with the newly formed British Council of Churches’ Department of International Friendship.
When the conference had finished, the Revd William Thorburn Elmslie, General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of England, made his way to another appointment – a church extension committee meeting which was also being held in the building, now the central office for the United Reformed Church (URC).
He never made it.
