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.
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
- 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
- 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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