{"id":1934,"date":"2025-06-30T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/?p=59463"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:08:00","slug":"urc-general-assembly-2025-to-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"URC General Assembly 2025 to take place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/urc-general-assembly-2025-to-take-place.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly is taking place from 4-7 July at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick.<\/p>\n<p>General Assembly meets annually to celebrate, discuss, worship and make decisions about the life and work of the URC.&nbsp;It is the URC\u2019s central decision-making body.<\/p>\n<p>Items on the agenda include an update on the Church Life Review, a review of the URC retirement policy for ministers and Church Related Community Workers, the criteria for 13 new Pioneering posts, a review of its Resource Centres for Learning, the Place for Hope mediation team launch, and the 2025 Community Project Awards.<\/p>\n<p>A round-up of all the business discussed and decisions made will be available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/our-news-stories\/latest-news\/\"><strong>news pages of the URC\u2019s website<\/strong><\/a> and Issue 5 of&nbsp;<em>Reform <\/em>magazine. A summary will be included in News Update, the denomination\u2019s monthly e-newsletter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General Assembly papers can be viewed and downloaded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/general-assembly-assembly-executive-assembly-committees\/general-assembly\/general-assembly-papers\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/urc.org.uk\/urc-general-assembly-2025-to-take-place\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=urc-general-assembly-2025-to-take-place\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 meeting of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly is taking place from 4-7 July at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick. General Assembly meets annually to celebrate, discuss, worship and make decisions about the life and work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/?p=1934\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urc-news","tag-urc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/urc-general-assembly-2025-to-take-place.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsurcrustington.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}