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the United Reformed Church's Southern Synod.
Welcome.

THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH is the result of a sequence of church unions towards the close of the twentieth century: in 1972 the Congregational Church of England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England joined together; in 1981 the Re-formed Association of the Churches of Christ and the United Reformed Church united; followed in 2000 by the Congregational Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church. For more information and details about the United Reformed Church click the link to the denominational web site: www.urc.org.uk

SOUTHERN SYNOD includes representatives of the 170 United Reformed Churches (many in ecumenical partnerships with Anglican, Baptist and/or Methodist churches) in Kent, Sussex, eastern Surrey, South London, Medway and Brighton & Hove. It meets twice a year and its mission is to resource and encourage the local churches in their endeavours to be Christ's people, transformed by the Gospel, making a difference. Between meetings the Synod is enabled in its work by Area Co-Ordination Teams, Committees and Staff, of which more detail can be found elsewhere on the site.

These are stimulating days for the Church in these islands. We realise that we are not always satisfying people's spiritual hunger. Yet, we have profoundly good news to share. We feel the challenge and urgency of doing so authentically and effectively for those with whom it is our privilege to engage, both in the church and in the community. Our commitment, as part of the United Reformed Church, is to explore every possible way of being God's people, transformed by the Gospel, making a difference.'

A contemporary United Reformed Church hymn writer, Basil Bridge, sums up our faith and sense of purpose, which is not to do with ourselves but with the one whom we worship and proclaim:

This is the truth we hold,
source of the joy we share,
hope that can make us bold
trusting the name we bear;
that 'Christ has died'
and 'Christ is risen,
in Christ shall all be made alive'.

'May grace and peace be yours in abundance.' I Peter 1.2

Nigel Uden
Synod Moderator

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