Over 100 URC (United Reformed Church) Mersey Synod members gathered at Hoole URC for a day of encouragement and to challenge how we can talk faith with each other and those we live amongst. 

Fifteen URC members and friends from across Mersey Synod recently travelled to Iona Abbey, to spend a week living in the Abbey in community, and experienced a spiritual retreat at this international, ecumenical Christian centre.

Romans 2:8

through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Once a month, Peasley Cross URC welcome the local community and church members to grab a brew and spend time with friends. This is just one event the church hosts as part of several community and special interest groups.

Christian Aid supporters are gearing up for a week of focussed action and prayer - and this year will be supporting families in Malawi, who are paying a harsh price for the global cost of living and climate crises.

Do you know a child or young person who is playing their part in the mission of God in their church, synod, local community or the wider world?

We would like to encourage more applications for the Discipleship Development Fund Large Grant Group as there is money available to support lay discipleship. The opportunities, experiences and events supported so far are many and varied.

St George's URC, Maghull, has found many opportunities for strengthening their identity and promoting community work and talking faith, after taking part in Leading your Church into Growth.

This event provides churches with an opportunity to work together in welcoming thousands of visitors to the city and to proclaim the love of God.

The 50th Anniversary Service will be livestreamed and available on YouTube after the event on 15th April.

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.

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.

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.

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

Spread some song across your heart at the Café Jam events this year.

A new resource from the URC Children's and Youth Work team is now ready to use.

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.

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.

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.

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.