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Albany Church in Haverfordwest is celebrating having achieved the Eco Church Bronze Award

The perfect opportunity to mark this award was at the Eco Church Roadshow held at Albany on Saturday, 16th November. Friends from across Pembrokeshire joined together to learn more about the Eco Church scheme and the possibilities that it provides in encouraging a far greener outlook for both churches and individuals. Joined by many of […]

Advent Reflection: Revd Ruth Whitehead

When the world all seems too much, I give myself a break by watching the BBC’s  “the Repair Shop” If you haven’t seen it, I can thoroughly recommend it as a life-affirming programme! People bring a ‘treasured object’ which is broken or simply worn by the passage of time, and various experts set to work to […]

Christmas Events Around the Synod

This is a list of all the carol concerts taking place in churches around the Synod of Wales.It is updated as frequently as possible, please contact churches directly for more information. Posters are included, where available, via a link. If you have an event you think should be on this list please email us. Further Christmas […]

Lay Worship Leaders Conference

The National Synod of Wales were pleased to host our annual Lay Ministry Weekend in The Metropole, Llandrindod Wells at the beginning of November. The Synod’s Lay Preaching Advocate, Maggie, led the weekend which hosted an array of speakers. The theme was “We are pilgrims spreading God’s message” encouraging a thoughtful journey through our Christian […]

November eNewsletter

November Together in Prayer Reflection

by Lyn Oelmann of Cwmbran URC, Nov 2023 Introductory readings: Take a few moments to read Psalms 46 and 121 – psalms, which remind us that God is an ever-present provider of shelter and encouragement. “God is our refuge and strength.” Earlier this year I went to the cinema to see The National Theatre Live […]

A Historic Celebration of Love

Zion’s Hill Hosts Pembrokeshire’s First Same-Sex Marriage Ceremony There was a chapel full of joy on August 31st when Nia Williams and Lara Schmidt were married at Zion’s Hill United Reformed Church in Spittal. As well as beginning their married life together, the couple made history as the first ever couple to marry in a […]

City URC members attend Raf’s Ordination

CITY’S LOVELY French friend Rafaële Gondran, always known as Raf’’, who with her now husband Matthieu spent a year with us volunteering as church workers, has been ordained as a pastoral minister in the United Protestant Church of Loire-Atlantique. And two members of City URC, Rev Shelagh Pollard and Alison Tansom made the journey to […]

Stir-Up Sunday: An Advent Tradition

Article credit: Jean Silvan-Evans (City URC) Christmas is coming – and so is the time to ‘Stir-Up’ City’s Christmas cake! An old tradition that City Church has adapted to its own needs and that brings us together at the start of the festive season STIR-UP SUNDAY is a centuries-old tradition that the late Grace Mordecai […]

Swansea Region CRCW Celebration Service on 21st September 2024

Members of the CRCW Steering Group and CRCW Adella Pritchard invited members of Christ Well URC Manselton; Hall Street, Llanelli; Uniting Church Sketty and Trustees and volunteers from asylum seeker & refugee charity Unity in Diversity (UiD) to attend a service of celebration and thanksgiving on 21st September at UCS. The occasion was: To give […]

Are you a Church Safeguarding Coordinator?

Starting on Monday 7th October, a monthly forum/drop-in will run for anyone with responsibility for safeguarding in church, hosted by Diana Taylor, Synod Safeguarding Officer. questions answered expertise shared peer support offered Time: 12.30 – 1.30pmWhen: First Monday of each monthHow: Online via ZoomMeeting ID: 873 6282 0710Passcode: 587706 Everyone welcome! For further info, contact: […]

Hymns are Important in our Faith: Celebrating Isaac Watts

By Jean Silvan Evans (Portrait by an unknown artist) THIS YEAR of 2024 marks 350 years since the birth of the prolific hymn writer Isaac Watts (1674-1748), the man who introduced hymn singing as we know it today into churches and is known as the Father of English Hymnody. He is known for writing […]

CITY URC’s Link Magazine Quoted in History Journal

CITY URC’s humble little magazine has made it onto the hallowed pages of history in the current Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society. The Society’s Journal is edited by Rev Dr Robert Pope, who lived and ministered in Wales for many years before he took the post of teaching church history at the […]

October’s Together in Prayer

By Rev. Martha McInnes I haven’t always been part of the church. I spent the first years of my life outside the church in asmall family. Once I launched myself into the world, I began to look for a place to belong. At thatpoint in my life, God came to me, like the Hound of […]

Wales Synod Ministers’ Summer School: The Gifts of Ministry

Most of the URC ministers and CRCW serving in Wales gathered at Llangasty Retreat House near Brecon at the beginning of August for their annual Summer School. This year the main speaker and theme leader was the Revd Dr Susan Durber, a retired URC minister living in Pembrokeshire. Susan drew on her vast experience […]