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Welsh church features in second Holy Habit film exploring fellowship

St Davids unity film and chat St David’s Uniting Church in Pontypridd features in the second of a short series of films exploring each theme featured in Andrew Roberts’ book, Holy Habits.

Directed by Kevin Snyman, Mission Enabler for West Midlands Synod, the ‘Holy Habit of Fellowship’ is seen in action through a ‘film and chat’ afternoon held at St David’s with the aim of bringing people together.

Holy Habits is one of the key resources for Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today, the URC’s focus on lifelong Christian discipleship and mission.

Colleagues bid farewell to long-serving staff member

AB web Colleagues old and new bid farewell to Ann Barton, United Reformed Church Facilities Manager, at a barbecue at Church House on 31 August.

After 23 years of service, she is retiring and looking forward to having the time to pursue long-held areas of interest.

Church policy group appoints poet-in-residence

The Revd Lucy Berry, a performance poet and United Reformed Church minister, has been named as the first poet-in-residence for the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT).

JPIT responds to current social, political and policy issues on behalf of the Baptist Union, the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church.

Ms Berry will write and perform poetry related to the policy areas JPIT work on such as poverty and welfare system in the UK, immigration, political engagement and broader themes around peace and justice.

United Reformed Church blooms at Greenbelt

URC tent news banner The United Reformed Church brought a great splash of colour to the Greenbelt arts festival last weekend (24-27 August).

Members all over the UK had been busy for months knitting, crocheting and sewing creative flowers to turn the URC tent into a garden. Festival goers joined in the creativity, making fork flowers, decorating stones and fashioning peg people to walk through the vibrant display.

These activities were just some of the many ways Greenbelters explored the theme of this year’s URC’s association with Greenbelt: ‘Pilgrimagination’.