St. Andrew’s seeks to be a fellowship of God’s people, offering friendship, care and welcome to all.
Who is the United Reformed Church? We are a family of Christians, worshipping in the name of Jesus in about 1500 local churches from Orkney to Cornwall.
- ‘Reformed’ means that we delight in the Bible, we do not fear change, and we try to run our churches in ways that take everyone’s insight and contribution seriously.
- ‘United’ is an important part of our story. We started when English Presbyterians merged with English and Welsh Congregationalists in 1972. Churches of Christ joined in 1981 and Scottish Congregationalists in 2000. We still work as closely as we can with Christians of all traditions and styles.
- And we are one ‘Church’. We aim to grow through supporting one another and taking decisions together.
All our tasks and posts are open to women as fully as to men. We are an intercultural church, where people with varied ethnic roots enrich each other’s Christian living. Our people hold a range of opinions about theology and church life. In the words of the denominations Statement of Nature, Faith and Order (1990) together we are firmly committed to ‘God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The living God, the only God, ever to be praised.’
We are part of the whole Christian Church, and we are glad to say that. We don’t believe that we are the only true Church, or that we are the ones who have got it right above all others. We’re part of the entire Church – we are not the complete Church ourselves. Saying that alone makes us different from some other Christian churches.
Find out more, by exploring this website, or (even better) by coming to meet us and worshipping with us.
You can find out more information about the overall United Reformed Church organisation, ethos and history on the URC website.
