Latest news and features
from URC Mersey
URC 50th Anniversary livestreaming from local churches
The 50th Anniversary Service will be livestreamed and available on YouTube after the event on 15th April.
Talking Faith at Easter
This short film shows how the members of Ormskirk St URC in St Helens decided they were going to 'Talk Faith' to their local community this Easter.
New Mersey Synod Podcast episode: Talking Faith - Why is it so important for Christians to talk about their faith?
Mersey Synod - In Conversation With...
These are a series of conversations helping us to delve deeper into different aspects of our faith and church life.
Church Life Review Group Update March 2023
The Church Life Review Group will be presenting its work to the 2023 General Assembly. The group has created a video introducing the review and its various workstreams.
URC Children Together
We took the opportunity to ask some of the children in the synod, what they thought about church and God.
Faith Adventures for Children Together (FACT)
A new resource from the URC Children's and Youth Work team is now ready to use.
Malpas Community Church to take musical worship mobile through mission grant
To support their musical and worship outreach work, Malpas Community Church has been awarded £1,300 from the Synod Mission Grants Fund. This funding will go towards a PA system.
Listen in as URC Mersey Synod launches 'In Conversation With' podcast series
Mersey Synod - In Conversation With...
These are a series of conversations helping us to delve deeper into different aspects of our faith and church life.
A time for church mobilisation in the community
The cost-of-living crisis is a time of uncertainty, and yet it is often in these times that the Church becomes mobilised and creative. It would be easy as individuals and churches to say, “there’s very little we can do to change this”. A feature from Revd Stuart Nixon, Birchwood Minister.
Talking Faith - why ministry is more than ministers
Having accepted the call to move to Mersey Synod before anyone had heard the name Covid, my plans were put on hold for various reasons. During those strange times, many of us realised that although we missed the church buildings, church was still happening, and it was happening in a new and exciting way. A feature from Revd Mark Bates, United Reformed Church minister of three churches in the Wirral.
Training opportunities for everyone from pew to pulpit
Whether you are wanting to refresh your ministerial practice, pep up the prayer-life of the congregation or introduce a new skill to your leadership team, there are opportunities out there. There will be Synod-wide training but there is also the opportunity for pastorates to have training in their location too.