Resources for Churches
Useful links and resources for churches:
Worship Resources
- Commitment for Life worship resources
- Education and Learning worship resources
- Racial Justice and Multicultural Ministry worship resources
- Vision4Life has numerous worship resources
Contacts
- Contact us - contact details for central URC departments
- Synods - contact details for regional administrative groupings of churches
Communication
- Creating church websites - advice for local churches on creating a website for their church
- Find a church - verify that your church listing is up to date and update your church details. Churches that provide full postcodes are also automatically displayed in Google Maps
Advice
- Elders as church trustees - guidance for elders worried about their possible responsibilities as church trusteees
- URC Swine Flu Guidance (prepared August 2009) - running the church and supporting your community during a Swine Flu outbreak.
- Charity registration for local churches - assistance for local churches in complying with the requirements of the Charities Act 2006, prepared by the URC Trust, revised June 2009
- Churches and Faith Buildings: Realising the Potential - government guidelines on how churches can obtain funding and support to adapt their buildings for community use (see news article Funding churches for community use)
- Civil Partnerships - advice over services of blessing
- Education and Learning - department for the education of church ministers and members, includes Training for Learning and Serving (TLS)
- Information booklets - guidance for church secretaries or treasurers
- The Manual: Information for local churches - information on a range of issues from ecclesiastical exemption, to food regulations and copyright
- PLATO - property handbook and guide to maintaining church properties
Safe Church Advice
- Declaration towards a safe church - charter for action with space for local contact numbers (amended Oct 2007)
- Good Practice - guidelines for safeguarding children and young people in the church
- Policy on allegations of sexual harassment or abuse of adults and associated flow chart of policy regarding sexual harassment.
- Guidelines for Synod Advisers for dealing with allegations of sexual harrassment or abuse of adults
- Preserving the Integrity of the Body - report on avoiding abuse within the church
- The 'Together' booklet series on being a safe church: Life Together, Relating Together and Worshipping Together

