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URC team donate more than 160 Easter eggs to services for vulnerable young people

Share the miracle news banner Young homeless people and children with physical and learning difficulties will share more than 160 Easter eggs thanks to the United Reformed Church’s (URC) children’s and youth work team.

Since February, the team has been collecting Easter eggs donated by colleagues at Church House after they registered the building as a ‘donation station’ through the ShareTheMiracle initiative.

In total, 164 chocolate eggs were collected and shared between Action for Children's Camden and Islington Short Breaks service, and the Single Homeless Project (SHP), both in Islington.

No-deal Brexit endangers poorest families

Brexit signpost credit Maxpixel The United Reformed Church has joined the Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Methodist Church to call on the government to do all that it can to avoid an unplanned no-deal Brexit.

In a joint statement, the Church leaders said: 'We have chosen not to make political statements around Brexit. Members of the Churches we represent have in good conscience come to different conclusions; some voted remain and others voted to leave.

Let's talk about tax

As a new tax year begins on 6 April, URC members are being invited to explore the role of tax in building a just and sustainable society.

A new resource for study and discussion, ‘Tax for the Common Good’, has been published by Church Action for Tax Justice (CATJ), which is supported by the United Reformed Church (URC). The ecumenical organisation, launched in 2018, wants to see a fairer and more effective tax system where everyone pays their share.

Discipleship stories: Urgent help needed

A leaflet is being prepared in connection with ‘Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today’, the United Reformed Church’s focus on lifelong missional discipleship, to help people on their faith journeys.

It is based on the journey to Emmaus which contains within it four actions: the friends of Jesus stopped; looked; listened; and then walked back to Jerusalem. These actions lie at the heart of our walk with the Lord.

In the leaflet, we would like to include a section called ‘a disciple’s story’ which is a brief testimony from someone whose experience reflects one of these actions.

Protectors maintain protests as fracking firm’s plans are rejected

Christian campaigners, including members of the United Reformed Church (URC), are maintaining their efforts to stop fracking in their community.

A film, made by the Revd Dr Kevin Snyman, shows the campaigners in action at the site of the UK’s first horizontal shale gas exploration wells in Preston New Road, Lancashire, and visited by Derek Estill, Moderator of the URC General Assembly.

According to news reports, dozens of tremors have been recorded at the site since fracking firm Cuadrilla began pumping high volumes of water underground in October 2018 looking for gas.