Beulah URC in Rhiwbina, Cardiff has recently achieved an Eco Church Silver Award. We participated in the project, which is run by A Rocha UK, by completing the comprehensive online survey which assessed our success in caring for God’s earth. Beulah’s Eco Group had responsibility for submitting the application but the responses reflect the ethos […]
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Megan Price, Moderator’s PA & Office Manager Megan comes to the URC after 20 years of working in the arts, for 13 years at Chapter Arts Centre and latterly as a freelance consultant to a range of organisations from National Theatre Wales and Wales Millennium Centre, to small companies and individual artists. She has worked […]
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The ‘Garden Through Time’ at Pembroke United Reformed Church was officially opened on Sunday 5 September by Pembroke’s Mayor, Cllr. Linda Asman and Deputy Mayor, Cllr. Jonathan Nutting. The official opening was preceded by a service led by Revd Stella Hayton with 53 guests including funders, project partners and volunteers. The project was undertaken by […]
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The churches of the Brecon Beacons Pastorate have been making use of their new website. Each edition of the pastorate newsletter The Link / Y Dolen now appears there and a training session was held in July to show how easy it was to add details of services and other events to the Calendar and […]
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The URC is seeking a Minister for Digital Worship to help the church explore ways of extending worship and discipleship development digitally. The Daily Devotions have become a treasured part of the life of the United Reformed Church. This new role is designed to ensure that Daily Devotions and Daily Devotions Sunday Services are fully […]
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We are pleased to announce that Helen Stenson has been seconded to be our Synod Clerk. She brings a wealth of experience of church life as well as insights gained from over 23 years working in different roles for Wales Synod. Helen is a member at City URC in Cardiff and started as an Administrative […]
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A time capsule from the 1930s was discovered at the former Northop URC by Wales and West Housing during their redevelopment of the site – as reported by BBC Wales Today. The well-preserved capsule contains photographs and documents from the chapel’s founding in 1879 and its rebuilding in 1932. Northop URC closed in 2017 and […]
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Five URC churches participated in the Landscapes of Faith Festival in June. The festival celebrated the rich history of faith in South Wales with four journeys across the region and included visits to Barry Uniting Church, Castle St URC in Abergavenny, Llanfair Uniting Church in Penrhys, Maesyronnen with Glasbury URC and St David’s Uniting Church […]
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The URC is offering advice and resources from a variety of sources about the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. In this fast-moving situation, the advice is being regularly updated. Please access the current advice here: https://urc.org.uk/latest-news/3365-urc-issues-coronavirus-advice-to-its-churches.
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This part-time position presents an opportunity for a well-organised and computer-literate person to provide administrative support to the Officers and Staff of the Synod and to ensure the meetings of the Synod and the Boards and Committees of the Synod and Trust Company Limited are efficiently organised and accurately recorded. The successful applicant will be […]
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The Revd Adrian Bulley, currently Synod Clerk for the United Reformed Church (URC) National Synod of Wales and Convenor of the URC Business Committee, has been appointed the new Deputy General Secretary (Discipleship). In January, Adrian had been seconded to the role of Assistant General Secretary, for a period of seven months, to assist the […]
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