Peter Stevenson, a Special Category Minister at Crossway United Reformed Church has been appointed Site Chaplain to the Lend Lease Elephant Park Development in South London. The existing church is currently on the site but the congregation will be moving later in the year to a new building 400 metres away. The development currently employs […]
Crossway United Reformed Church will soon be “walking the way” from their current address in the Elephant and Castle to a newly built site 400 metres away. The journey has been challenging but God has been an ever present help in time of trouble. At a recent site visit Martin Hayward, Southern Synod Mission Office […]
During the Croydon Churches Together ‘Walk of Witness’ on Good Friday the Moderator Revd Nicola Furley-Smith preached on ‘Were you there when they crucified my Lord?’. Toni Suffolk who organised the Walk has sent some pictures. A video has also been uploaded to YouTube.
The terrorist attacks this week in Brussels are the most violent to hit Europe since the November attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Yet this is not the first, or even the second or third, terrorist attack in that time. We must not forget Bamako, Tunis, San Bernadino, Istanbul, Jakarta, Ouagadougou, Ankara, […]
Please note that the Minutes of the Synod Together Meeting that took place on Saturday 12th March at East Croydon URC as well as Richard Church’s presentation notes are now available in the Documents Library under ‘Synod Together’. Grace Marriott – Secretary at East Croydon kindly provided these photos from the day. Registration A break for tea […]
You may have noticed a page called “Synod Staff Fun Pages”. The idea of this, apart from introducing some light relief is to allow people in Synod to get to know the Synod staff better and help build a strong relationship between the Office and the Synod. The first contribution is the start of a […]
A report from Revd Helen Matthews about their wonderful annual exhibition! This is the fourth time that St Andrew’s URC in Balham have put on their Knitted Bible exhibition and it has been another successful year. Throughout the week local primary schools have brought classes and by the time the exhibition finishes next week over […]
News from Revd Bill Bowman about a forthcoming exhibition of Photographs & Memorabilia of People and Places in Elmers End’s past Details as follows:- Sat 16th April 10-4pm Sun 17th April 1-4pm Elmers End Free Church, Goddard Road, BR3 4AE FREE ADMISSION and Refreshments Available A flyer is available here for download.
The first of this year’s Synod Together meetings took place on Saturday and the minutes will soon be available, together with a short report on how it went. In the meantime, you might enjoy this video that Revd Richard Church showed during his presentation on “Missional Discipleship”. It is called “This is Discipleship”. Revd Richard […]
Further to the News item on the next Synod Together Meeting on 12th March at East Croydon URC (posted on 22nd February), the Agenda and Papers are now available for download here in the Documents Library. If you have received the calling letter and are unable to attend, and have not yet sent your apologies, please […]