After attending the United Reformed Church’s (URC) Children’s and Youth Work department’s Big Speak Out event in Nottingham in 2018, Heidi Grogan, a member of URC Youth, has grown in faith and confidence and is now ready to respond to the call to become a nurse. She shares more of her story…
I was brought up in the URC until I was seven, but my family drifted away from church. Encourage by my mum, at 16 I found myself back at church and began to form my own sense of faith.
In July 2018, I attended the Big Speak Out (BSO) event for under-18s taking place alongside the URC’s General Assembly in Nottingham. I found myself surrounded by people who didn’t yet know each other but who seemed to feel like a close-knit family in no time at all.
One of the most frequent questions asked at Team Peter’s House, a project and home to four young people from different parts of the world, currently Germany and Hungary, who carry out voluntary service with the Hull Area Team Ministry, is ‘when will we pray?’
Having lived through many years of oppression as a Christian in Pakistan, United Reformed Church elder Aftab Alexander Mughal from East Blackburn, North Western Synod continues to use his gifts and talents to work towards a more just society, both in the UK and his country of birth. Aftab tells us more:
