Please pray at St John’s United Church of Zambia in Mtendere (Lusaka) for the young people starting their new school term, and for the staff and teachers; for church choirs and fellowships getting back to their activities, and give thanks for their devotion and contribution to the mission of the church; and for all the […]
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Please pray for: the ministry of the Women’s Christian Fellowship and the Men’s Christian Fellowship at St John’s Mtendere congregation of the United Church of Zambia resuming their fellowship and work, observing the anti coronavirus protocols. young people sitting the GCE exams during September. the other pupils and teachers who have returned to school for […]
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We are asked to give thanks for answers to prayer for improved electricity supply in Zambia. for a pause in the increase of COVID-19 deaths in Zambia. for the resumption of worship together, often outside in this dry season. Please continue to pray for the management of church finances, much reduced by the lockdown.
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Our united services with Salisbury Methodist Church and St Thomas’s Church have necessarily been put on hold. Each of our congregations is providing some form of online worship. Salisbury Methodist Church provides a recorded online Sunday worship experience each week. A service, led by Revd Anna Bishop, can be found by following this link: SMC […]
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The URC’s very own Diana Paulding is part of Christian Aid’s Prophetic Activist Scheme. These young Christians are working for climate justice. The activists launched the Stop Fuelling the Fire Campaign, which is petitioning the UK government to end using UK Export Finance to fund fossil fuel projects overseas. Diana feels strongly about this issue, […]
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Thanks to Anne’s hard work and commitment to justice, Salisbury URC’s status as a Fairtrade Church has been renewed for another year! Fairtrade News Angharad Hopkinson, Campaigns and Policy Officer at the Fairtrade Foundation, writes: Thank you very much for recommitting Salisbury United Reformed Church as a Fairtrade Place of Worship. Fairtrade is growing with […]
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We’re always looking for Bible Study resources that offer thoughtful and scholarly assistance. The Blue Letter Bible is our latest discovery. It is very easy to use (an important criteria for Ana) — and has a ‘quick nav’ option to get to the book and verse quickly. Have a look. It offers: several Bible Translations […]
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Sea Sunday is usually held in the summer months. It’s a day we learn about and remember all the seafarers working on the seas. ‘Owing to borders closing during the pandemic, some 200,000 container ship crew members are stranded at sea. Many of them have now been at sea for over a year,’ reports The […]
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Revd Colin and Anne Marsh have shared with us about their extensive involvement in the URC-Waldensian Global Link. Read on to learn more about the Waldensian Church in Italy and the URC Fellowship that connects us. If you are considering future travel to Italy, this link may prove extremely beneficial. The Waldensian Church – 1175 […]
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The URC Justice Ministries invite us as individuals and a congregation, to stay informed of the current situation in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and Israel. Rev Dr Munther Isaac, a Lutheran minister in Bethlehem and author of “The Arab Church”, speaking at a recent zoom-workshop of the realities of life as a Palestinian Christian today, […]
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