A year since the launch of the United Reformed Church’s (URC) focus on lifelong missional discipleship, Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today, Richard Church and Francis Brienen share their thoughts on the first 12 months.

The experience of leaving port on a large ship can be easy to miss because, although you may feel the vibrations of the engines, it is not until you look out that you see that you have left the harbour and are making way.

It is in this spirit that we look back on the first year of Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today.

In the Holy Habit of Breaking Bread, the fifth film produced by the United Reformed Church (URC) in its Holy Habits film series, three people explain what breaking bread means to them.

Literally meaning the sharing of a loaf, it later came to mean sharing and is now also used to describe a social interaction where food, or a variety of items, is shared as a way of drawing people closer together.

This is shown through Bread Church, a ministry in Stafford founded by the Revd Peter Powers, a Methodist minister, where people of all ages learn to make bread and get to know each other better in the process.

United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly Moderators, Derek Estill and the Revd Nigel Uden, have joined European Church leaders in affirming the values of dignity, respect and compassion for refugees and migrants.

On 4 December, a Christmas statement, signed by more than 30 Church leaders from Europe, was jointly issued by the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and the Conference of European Churches (CEC).