LAY WORKER (PART TIME – 20 HOURS PER WEEK) Are you someone who has experience in developing and running effective outreach mission initiatives with children and young families, youth, schools, care homes, older people and refugees? Have you experience in leading volunteers? Do you have excellent safeguarding knowledge and practice? Then this might be the […]
FREE ONLINE TRAINING OPPORTUNITY Inclusive Practice: pastorally supporting LGBTQ+ young people Southern Synod have organised a training session exploring ways to pastorally support LGBTQ+ young people. This free 90-minute session will be facilitated by guest speaker Matthew Willmott from FYT (Frontier Youth Trust) The session will take place online via zoom. Please share this opportunity […]
Celebrating the Ordination and Induction of Revd Maurice Omorojie We were delighted to hold the Ordination and Induction of Maurice at St Andrew’s Cheam on Saturday the 20th September. Maurice finished his studies at Northern College this summer after a four year course. In January this year Maurice accepted the call from St Andrews to […]
Surrey and Sussex Retired Minister’s Lunch! The retired Ministers’ lunch was a great success and enjoyed by the 16 guests (including wives and widows) and members of the Pastoral Committee who attended. Hearty thanks were extended to Revd Helen Higgin-Botham for organising the event and to all at Christ Church Chichester for being great […]
Our theme at Dorking URC since Easter has been Caring for Creation. So, what has been going on? Here is a snapshot: War has to be just about as far away from caring for creation as you can get and our Sow to Grow garden group took the opportunity presented by the VE Day 80th […]
Junior Church Visit to Peace Doves Installation During the summer holidays, children from Reigate Park Church’s Junior Church visited Peace Doves at Southwark Cathedral—an extraordinary installation by sculptor Peter Walker featuring thousands of paper doves carrying messages of peace, hope and love. Having created their own peace doves in church earlier this year, the children […]
Having completed 2 years of training at Westminster College Cambridge I was Ordained and Inducted as a Non Stipendiary Minister on the 6th September at Reigate Park Church by Revd Russell Furley-Smith. Russell led the service beautifully with a little humour – in the right places! – which made not just me but the whole […]
Canterbury and Rochester Diocese are hosting a joint conference to celebrate and share their commitment to creation care, and would love for you to join. We are delighted to be welcomed by St Luke’s, Maidstone who will showcase the amazing journey they have taken to decarbonise their church. The programme will feature: – Talk from […]
September Newsletter News from the Training and Development Officer It has been a very busy July and August. I attended my first General Assembly with many others from the Synod and learned so much! See the photo! I attended the annual residential for the TDO+ Network in London. See photo. I travelled to Memphis Tennessee […]
Staplehurst’s 200th Anniversary Celebrations! On the 16th August, Staplehurst URC celebrated the 200th Anniversary of worshipping at their current site. The occasion was celebrated by 48 visitors from the local community who heard a fascinating talk about the history of Staplehurst URC. Some highlights from the talk included hearing how Revd John Wesley preached there […]