Access information for anyone planning a visit – information on, for example, slopes/steps, parking, lighting, sounds, children, neurodiversity, money, tattoos, communion, and more.
Please click on the link below to download:
Access Information. TCACL. March 2023
Access information for anyone planning a visit – information on, for example, slopes/steps, parking, lighting, sounds, children, neurodiversity, money, tattoos, communion, and more.
Please click on the link below to download the info:
This is held at different venues including Carrs Lane.
Sunday 19 February – St Alban’s Church, Conybere Street, Highgate, Birmingham B12 0YH
Sunday 19 March – St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter, St Paul’s Square, Birmingham B3 1QZ
For more information, email phpaw2@btinternet.com or call 0121 478 3841
ALL ARE WELCOME
More dates will be added when we have them.
The URC’s 50th anniversary celebrations take place in London on 1 October and we are hoping that people will be excited by the opportunity to take part on this historic day.
The role of steward at the Worship Service will involve arriving at the venue on the day in time for a briefing and run through from 12.30 pm onwards. Some stewards may be positioned outside the hall, while others will usher people into the hall and ensure seats are filled up from the front and that no gaps are left. The main job of the stewards at the service will be to deliver the elements of communion to the ends of each row. There will be trays of bread and trays of communion wine and some of these will need to be carried upstairs to serve those seated in the balcony, so it is important that anyone volunteering feels confident in climbing stairs while carrying these trays. Stewards will also be asked to help clear URC items from the venue after the event, and will be finished by 6.00 pm.
Stewarding at the Open Church House event will involve welcoming visitors, guiding them around the building and helping manage safety and security. All volunteers will need to arrive at Church House between 8:30am-9am. The Open Church House event will finish in time for everyone to walk or travel to Westminster for the start of the service.
If these are things you, or anyone you know, might be able to help with, please email 50@urc.org.uk as soon as possible.
Further information about these events can be found here:
Open Church House: https://urc.org.uk/who-we-are/our-50th-anniversary/50th-anniversary-tickets/#open-church-house
Walk to Westminster: https://urc.org.uk/who-we-are/our-50th-anniversary/50th-anniversary-tickets/#walk-to-westminster
Please do let me know if you have any queries about any of the above.
Best wishes
Carole Sired
Administrator to Mission and Ecumenical & Interfaith Relations | United Reformed Church
86 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RT
020 7916 2020 | 50@urc.org.uk | www.urc.org.uk
(The popular name of the Street Ecclesial Community)
As you may be aware Traidcraft’s Great Taste Award Winning Tea is packaged locally at Ringtons, a family run business for over a century. The tea bags contain a very small amount of plastic to seal them.A Business Digest has been created of the General Assembly that took place from 8-11 July 2022 at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick.
The digest available here, as both word and PDF:
The Record of Assembly will be going on the website shortly for further information.
If you can see even a glimpse of any of these, then come and be part of the Newbigin Pioneering Hub and see if your hopes can be realised together with us.
More information below!
We are a collaboration between the United Reformed Church, the Congregational Federation, Church Mission Society and the Seedbeds organisation and named in honour of the inspirational URC Minister and mission theologian Lesslie Newbigin. This new venture is open to all and is part of celebrating the past 50 years of the United Reformed Church and Congregational Federation.
The Hub is the space for training lay pioneers through the certificate and also for supporting those engaged in pioneering work. The desire is that we bring people together to support one another- sharing experience and expertise in the Hub as well as offering support to those engaged in training. Please contact info@seedbeds.org for more information.
This is our foundational course designed and led by experienced pioneering practitioners, for practitioners. Church Mission Society has offered this course around the UK and will now make it available to all, rooted in the United Reformed Church in partnership with the Congregational Federation, and planted in a live pioneering context in inner city Birmingham.
The course will start September 2022 and will include six units run over 3 weekend residential (The Greenhouse at Barnes Close), hybrid sessions (online and in Lodge Road Community Church, Birmingham) on 3 full Saturdays and 3 Wednesday evenings along with personal coaching.
The six units offered are:
There is also a pitch to a resource panel and graduation.
Please contact info@seedbeds.org for more information or apply online at https://seedbeds.org/newbigin-pioneering-hub-2/
‘CMS Certificate of Pioneering’ programme: £600 for six modules or £300 for an approved URC or Congregational Federation Participant.
‘Community of Pioneers’ community membership: £24 annually.
For help with funding and other support please talk to your local church, synod or apply for a Discipleship Development Fund grant.
Any further questions about URC support, please email linda.rayner@urc.org.uk
Carrs Lane Counselling Centre is in the heart of Birmingham and is dedicated to providing a low-cost, first-class, counselling service to adults across the wider West Midlands conurbation. The Centre has been helping the people of our region for over 50 years and assists clients with a diverse range of issues. Although Carrs Lane Counselling Centre began life as part of The Church at Carrs Lane, it now operates independently as a registered charity/not for profit company limited by guarantee.
The Chair of trustees says:
“The trustee team is small, committed, forward thinking and we work well together. We are ably assisted by a volunteer treasurer and are keen to recruit one or two more who would enjoy working with us and help us to grow and develop. We are particularly keen to recruit people who have backgrounds in fundraising, counselling, business, the charity sector, IT/social media or people who understand the enormous benefit counselling can offer.”
Further information can be found at http://www.carrslanecounselling.co.uk/trustee-vacancies/