In the absence of a physical General Assembly due to the Covid 19 crisis, a number of virtual events will be taking place next week to bring people together from across the URC. Simon Peters, Walking the Way Project Manager, explains why you should get involved with these, and how they can help us consider whole-of-life discipleship amongst the challenges of today’s world.
Given the importance of gatherings in the URC, bringing people together to share in fellowship and worship, listening and learning, ultimately making decisions and building the Church together as a community, it is a real shame that the General Assembly cannot meet physically this year.
However, as many have sought to remind us during this time of lockdown, church buildings may be closed, but the Church certainly is not!
To help us all maintain a sense of connection and encouragement from each other, a number of events will be taking place next week to which everyone is invited. Each one will help us to explore something of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus in these times, especially given the many challenges which Church and Society face alike:
Pat Lomax, Church Secretary at Broadway URC, Walsall, shares some of Broadway’s response to the current crisis:
Rita Brown, local church leader at St Andrew’s URC, Dartford, shares how things have been going for the congregation during lockdown:
The report from last year’s ‘In the Thick of It’ gathering, held at the Scargill Centre near Scarborough with people living and working on the margins with some of the most vulnerable in society can now be downloaded from the URC website 
