Equipping Churches - Nurturing Faith

Supporting our churches across the region

  • Job Vacancy for Synod Safeguarding Officer

    The Mersey Synod of the United Reformed Church (URC) which is a charitable organisation, wishes to recruit a Safeguarding Officer, who will work with the 72 United Reformed Churches in the Merseyside Region. The requirement is for someone to work 21 hours a week, with occasional weekend and evening working. The annual salary will be in the region of £30,600 to £37,400 (full time equivalent) dependent upon experience.  Actual salary is in the range of £17,362 to £21,217. 

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO LIVING FAITH: OUR SYNOD THEME FOR 2025-2027

    As we move our focus from Talking Faith to Living Faith, it’s a good idea for us to consider the direction of travel that we take. As we journey through Living Faith, this should not stop our desire to talk faith, as part of Living Faith is finding ways to ‘invite’ others to the life we have discovered.

  • ‘A Reimagined Worship’ faith and theatre combine to create innovative Sunday worship

    ‘A Reimagined Worship’ is an intergenerational, community collaboration, where faith and theatre have been combined to create an innovative Sunday worship. Designed and led by Marrissa Thorpe, ten weekly workshops saw volunteer participants from St Columba URC engaged in collective service planning to assess the capacity for experimental worship within the United Reformed Church.

  • Seacombe URC’s Mission to be a social and spiritual hub within the community

    Seacombe URC has always been there for its community and is now rebuilding and redeveloping to continue meeting the needs of its neighbours. The old church building is being repurposed into a multi-functional building suitable for use as a community resource as well as a worshipping church. It is hoped to be completed in 2026 and has been assisted with funding from Mersey Synod Large Project Scheme. But why and how did the church come to develop this project? What does it mean for the community in Seacombe – spiritually and socially?

  • Being Church

    Learn more about this resource for churches to help you review, reform and reinvigorate your church life.

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    The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC)

    At Mersey URC, we are fortunate to be involved with the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC).

Listen to our Podcast
Mersey Synod - In Conversation With…

Revd Geoff Felton…
introduces the Synod 2025-2027 theme of Living Faith