The Peace Memorial Ceremony is held annually at the Hiroshima Peace City Memorial Monument (pictured) remembering 6 August, 1945, when an American bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshima City, Japan. The entire city was devastated by the heat and shock waves of the blast, producing numerous civilian casualties. The Ceremony is ‘to […]
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This film presents history and current information on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories of Palestine, one of our partners through Commitment for Life. Watch film here. This film, Balfour to Banksy, is recommended by Sarum Concern for Israel/Palestine ‘100 years ago Britain’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour set in motion the vision of […]
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Sometimes our prayers seem general and distant. Here are a few specific prayer concerns arising in this challenging time and suggested by the Joint Public Issues Team of which the URC is a member church. Fruit pickers. Unions warn that women picking strawberries in Spain for UK supermarkets are experiencing deteriorating work conditions and lack […]
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Congratulations to Alice and Lydia for being two of the winners of the URC Logo Colouring Competition. Well done! Click here to see the URC announcement.
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Prayers for Zambia by Nigel Appleton, Wessex Synod World Church Group Prepared for use in worship by congregations throughout the Synod Gracious God, We give thanks for the resilience and faith of our sisters and brothers in the United Church of Zambia, and particularly for those to whom we are bound in fellowship through our […]
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Each Sunday the URC cretes an on-line worship service for you to view at home. Click here to view the most recent service and the list of previous services. You may listen to the service and sing along with the hymns or just follow along.
Read MoreIn our prayers for St John’s, Mtendere this week, we are asked especially to pray for: Church finances and the Ministers throughout the United Church of Zambia who have not been paid because there have been no live church services. They have gone without pay for the month of June. Medical staff under pressure because […]
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The following statement and prayer comes from Karen Campbell, the United Reformed Church’s Secretary for Global and Intercultural Ministries, and the Moderators of the URC General Assembly, Derek Estill and Revd Nigel Uden. “I have come that you might have life in all its fullness.” Jesus Christ said this more than 2,000 years ago. But […]
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What Am I to Do with My Anger? by Elsa Cook ‘Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.’ – Matthew 5:5 (NRSV) Every morning, when I open my eyes, it’s there again. It’s kept me up half the night, but in those few hours of slumber, I hoped that it might disappear. […]
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