It is time to grow new communities. Lindsey Brown and Myles Dunnett report on the start of a conversation about new beginnings

In January, a group of 100 of the animators of the United Reformed Church met in High Leigh (pictured above). These are not people who make movies for Pixar, they animate mission and discipleship. They came together to discuss how to release more of this potential in the URC – how to channel it into new communities of worship and discipleship.

The event, Conversations at the Crossroads, was part of the Church Life Review, which is rethinking the shape and the future of the URC. It is a programme that sees the Church holistically, so while we are considering how to support the inherited churches and free them from their burdens, we are also thinking about how the Church evolves and how we can help new communities to emerge…

Lindsey Brown is Evangelism and Ecumenical Officer for the United Reformed Church. Myles Dunnett is Programme Manager for the Church Life Review. They were talking to Stephen Tomkins

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This is an extract from an article published in the Issue 2 – 2025 edition of Reform

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