How a church can reach further

27/01/2023 | Reform

A small church is having a big impact through community partnerships, finds Stephen Tomkins

Ten years ago, Roker United Reformed Church, Sunderland, had a Church-Related Community Worker, Helen Stephenson. She saw that the congregation was already engaged with the community … Read More

Tending the vineyard

27/01/2023 | Reform

Three ‘Jubilee questions’ posed by the URC’s Church Life Review Group received a wide range of responses, says Lindsey Sanderson

The Church Life Review Group was set up by the URC’s Mission Council in March 2021, following discussion about the … Read More

Reform’s giving guide

28/11/2022 | Reform

All of us at Reform hope you will experience much goodness and joy in your Christmas celebrations this year. But you, like us, will be acutely aware of the difficulties so many are facing as financial and worldwide pressures impact … Read More

Transforming our communitites: Fixers or empowerers?

28/11/2022 | Reform

Concluding a two-part series, Simon Hawking asks what makes our communities change

It feels like each day brings another daunting headline in the news. Wars and rumours of wars, the plight of refugees, rising costs, ecological disasters and disease. There … Read More

Swapping clothes, changing the world

28/11/2022 | Reform

Pre-loved school uniforms show love for the planet in an award-winning exchange project. Laurence Wareing reports

It began with a couple of old choir robe rails in the vestibule. Three years on and St Columba’s URC in Wolverhampton has given … Read More

Supervision is a freedom

28/11/2022 | Reform

Lucy Berry celebrates the United Reformed Church’s new supervision for every minister

In July 2020 the United Reformed Church made a decision that would send ripples through the whole denomination. It stated that all active URC ministers would be expected … Read More