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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.

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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.

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URC Children Together

We took the opportunity to ask some of the children in the synod, what they thought about church and God.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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