Projects and Associated Groups
A page of projects, retreats, groups, schools and bloggers related to the URC.
Projects
- Fresh Expressions - aims to resource mission through new and different expressions of church life.
- Fury - the youth organisation of the United Reformed Church
- Pilots - an organisation for all children and young people. Part of the United Reformed Church, it is part-sponsored by the Congregational Federation
- Rejesus - exploring the life of Jesus
- Urban Churches Support Group - programme to support and encourage local churches in urban areas
- Vision4Life - a three-year project to boost evangelism and spirituality within the church
Centres
- Island House - multicultural community centre in Tower Hamlets, London
Retreats
- Barnes Close Conference Centre - conference centre in Worcestershire and community working for peace and justice
- Crossways centre - conference and retreat centre in Northamptonshire
- Glenorchy Centre - self-catering centre in Derbyshire
- Keld Resource Centre - residential centre in North Yorkshire
- St Cuthbert's Centre - offers away days on the island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland
- URC Holiday Forum - annual event held in Derbyshire
- URC retreats group - group promoting contemplation and retreats within the URC
- Windermere Centre - residential conference and retreat centre in the Lake District
Associated Groups
- Free to Believe - informal network working for an open, inclusive and thinking URC
- GEAR - group for evangelism and renewal within the URC
- URC Caravan Fellowship - rallies with other caravanning URC members organised between Easter and September
- URC History Society - access information from the URC's historical archives
- URC Musician's Guild - aiming to improve the quality of music during worship
- URC Scout and Guide Fellowship - fellowship for scouts and guides groups connected with the URC
Schools related to the URC
- Caterham School - Caterham, Surrey
- Eltham College - Eltham, South East London
- Silcoates School - Wakefield, West Yorkshire
- Taunton School - Taunton, Somerset
- Walthamstow Hall - school for girls, Sevenoaks, Kent
URC Bloggers
- TheAwkwardSquad - Andy Littlejohns, Christian jobhunter
- Brentwood URC - blog by the minister of Brentwood URC
- Church House Twitterings - Twitters from Martin Hazell
- Dick Wolff - religion and the secular world
- Disclosing New Worlds - Lawrence Moore on the revised common lectionary texts
- Dog collars and rabbit corpses - Stuart, a Stockport-based minister
- Jane Stranz - France-based URC minister
- Janet Lees - speech therapist and minister
- Limbo Blogging - from the racial justice and multicultural minister
- Matt Stone - Reform magazine contributor
- Occasional Diary - diary of therevbob
- Out on holy ground - Martin, a Manchester-based minister
- Paul's Blogged Blog - URC ministerial trainee
- Phil Baiden - a Doncaster-based minister
- Pieced Together Praise - blog of the Revd Dr Sarah Hall
- Random Ramblings - Leo Roberts, a children and youth development officer
- Say to this mountain - minister Sian
- The speechless sing - Coventry-based minister
- Stewart Cutler - thoughts about God, the church and youth ministry
- Tim Mullings - Wolverhampton-based minister
- URC Blog - the official URC blog
- URC Northern Synod - thoughts of those running the Northern Synod
- Women in Ministries - blog of women who attended a URC women in ministries session
Churches with Podcasts
- Brighthelm URC, Brighton podcasts
- Christchurch, Hitchen podcasts
- Emmanuel URC, Cambridge sermons
- Thomas Risley Church, Warrington sermon podcast
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