On a day filled with joy and thanksgiving, we celebrated the ordination of Revd Clare Nutbrown-Hughes as a Minister of Word and Sacraments, and her induction to the Valleys Pastorate. This pastorate brings together four churches: Hope & Market Square in Merthyr Tydfil, Van Road in Caerphilly, St David’s Uniting in Treforest, and Bethany […]
Holding an exhibition in August is becoming a tradition at St Johns, the Methodist and United Reformed Church just outside the historic town walls of the beautiful seaside town of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. It held its summer fayre in August this year and alongside the usually cake stalls, tombola and silly games, they also opened a […]
Megan Price, Synod Clerk I have just returned from my fifth Greenbelt festival, my fourth volunteering for the URC-run café which this year shared a venue called Table with the Trussell Trust. Throughout the weekend folk from across the URC and beyond come together to serve 1800 slices of cake (yes, really!) and wonderful hot […]
Members of Maesyronnen Chapel URC and Llanfair Uniting Church, Penrhys, were privileged to witness the former moderator of the URC Wales Synod Rev’d Dr John Morgans be admitted to the Gorsedd in a ceremony at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham on Friday 8th August. John was welcomed by the current archdruid of the National Eisteddfod […]
During refugee week this year St David’s Uniting Church in Treforest hosted a ‘Bring & Share’ lunch in collaboration with Rhondda-Cynon-Taff council, Migrant Help, Valleys Ethnic Minority Support and DPIA (Displaced People in Action). It was wonderful to see so many faces, new and known, from all over the world coming together over a shared […]
Rev’d Branwen Rees, East Wales Regional Minister It’s been a busy couple of months around East Wales… In July, Bailey Street Uniting Church, Brynmawr, held an afternoon tea and raised £450. Together with a donation from a memorial service held at the church they were able to send £600 to the charity, Embrace the Middle […]
Synod Safeguarding Officer Salary: £28,652 per annum(full-time equivalent: £47,754) This 21-hour per week position is for someone excited by the prospect of building upon the current strategy and strategic oversight of all safeguarding matters as well as being an advocate for safeguarding across the Synod structure and in its seventy-five churches. The successful applicant will […]
Kathryn Price On a beautiful early summer evening, a group of folk from the churches in the North Wales region went on a prayer walk around Basingwerk Abbey. The abbey is at the bottom of the Greenfield Valley running down to the Dee from Holywell and building began in the 12th century. It was, of […]
Maggie Kirkbride – Administration Officer, United Reformed Church National Synod of Wales This month I have been so lucky to have travelled to the West and North of Wales, and to the East and South of England. I have, of course, been struck by the beauty of the landscapes – so different but yet […]
Beulah URC is delighted to have been awarded A Rocha’s Eco Church Gold Award, and we are pleased to be playing our part in growing Eco Church across the URC National Synod of Wales. Beulah’s Eco Church journey began many years ago and we are grateful for the leadership of all the ministers who have […]