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Colleagues gathered for heartfelt speeches, cake and amusing poems at the United Reformed Church’s (URC) London office on 7 November to bid a fond farewell to the Revd Craig Bowman, outgoing Secretary for Ministries.
After 11 years in the role, Craig is moving on to take pastoral charge at St Andrew’s Cheam and Wallington URCs.
The United Reformed Church (URC) Mission Council is meeting at The Hayes Conference Centre, in Swanwick, Derbyshire from 15-17 November.
Mission Council is the executive body of the General Assembly and meets twice a year to reflect on and make decisions about the day-to-day life of the Church.
Christians who have long campaigned for a halt to fracking in Lancashire have called the government’s U-turn on shale gas extraction a “community win”.
On 2 November, the government announced fracking would not be allowed in England after a report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said it was not possible to predict the probability or size of tremors caused by the practice.
The Revd Jacky Embrey, Moderator of the United Reformed Church Mersey Synod, will help lead Liverpool’s tributes to the country’s war heroes on Remembrance Sunday.
Jacky will be leading the “thought for the day” at the Liverpool Remembrance Parade at the Cenotaph outside St. George’s Hall on Sunday (10 November).
The Revd Nicola Furley-Smith, the United Reformed Church Secretary for Ministries, reflects on the type of walls that divide people for Remembrance Sunday.
People have been building walls for thousands of years: those that keep people in and those that keep people out.
In recent years examples include President Trump’s 2000-mile barricade to keep people out of the United States, and the Berlin Wall that kept the people of East Berlin in a communist state.
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