SAVE THE DATE! Synod Day Out – 20th June 2026 from 10am to 4pm. This will be a day of fun, food and fellowship at Shires Oast at The Hop Farm, TN12 6PY If you would like to help, please contact Ruth on [email protected].
On Saturday 18th October, ministers and representatives from around the Synod gathered at Reigate Park URC, to pray, worship and make important decisions about the future of Southern Synod. Attendees were warmly welcomed into the Church with an inspiring service led by Revd’s Siobhan Antoniou and Sue Knight. They also heard about updates from the […]
Trinity Church Sutton’s Advent Lecture! Trinity Church Sutton would like to invite you to their Advent Lecture titled ‘Thomas More, William Tyndale and the struggle for the soul of England’, which will be given by the Revd Dr Jonathan Dean, the Chair of the London Methodist District. Jonathan will be exploring the difficult relationship between […]
The URC Waldensian Fellowship On-Line Thursday 13th November at 7.30 pm Two Visits to Waldensian Churches and Projects this Autumn During the past few weeks, two groups from the United Reformed Church have travelled to Italy to learn something of the Waldensian Church, its history and current life and witness. The first group, made up […]
Papers for the Synod Together meeting being held at Reigate Park URC are now available to download from the documents library. Synod Together is being held from 10:30-3pm on Saturday 18th October 2024 at Reigate Park URC. Please send any apologies to Lauren asap.
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 […]
We have great pleasure in announcing the appointment of the Synod’s new Safeguarding Officer, Natalie Van Camp. Safeguarding has been a growing and developing ministry for all churches, organisations and companies. We are grateful for the memorandum of understanding with Thames North Synod that provided Safeguarding support for Southern Synod by their own Safeguarding Officer, […]