Christ Church Haydock URC’s Junior Youth Club is open to all primary school age children in the community and is growing by the week with nearly 70 members. Children start off by listening to a short talk based around God’s word before choosing from a range of activities: football, table tennis, board games or crafts. Throughout the year, the Church also holds a number of ‘family night’ events which again provide the opportunity for to share God’s word, not only with the children, but with their parents too.

The Mersey Synod of the United Reformed Church (URC) which is a charitable organisation, wishes to recruit a Safeguarding Officer, who will work with the 72 United Reformed Churches in the Merseyside Region. The requirement is for someone to work 21 hours a week, with occasional weekend and evening working. The annual salary will be in the region of £30,600 to £37,400 (full time equivalent) dependent upon experience.  Actual salary is in the range of £17,362 to £21,217. 

As we move our focus from Talking Faith to Living Faith, it’s a good idea for us to consider the direction of travel that we take. As we journey through Living Faith, this should not stop our desire to talk faith, as part of Living Faith is finding ways to ‘invite’ others to the life we have discovered.

‘A Reimagined Worship’ is an intergenerational, community collaboration, where faith and theatre have been combined to create an innovative Sunday worship. Designed and led by Marrissa Thorpe, ten weekly workshops saw volunteer participants from St Columba URC engaged in collective service planning to assess the capacity for experimental worship within the United Reformed Church.

Learn more about this resource for churches to help you review, reform and reinvigorate your church life.

At Mersey URC, we are fortunate to be involved with the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC).