Synod Meetings

The Synod Council meets twice a year in March and October, chaired by the Synod Moderator: Revd Paul Whittle and the Synod Clerk Keir Hounsome.

Our Next Synod Meeting - SATURDAY 12th October 2019

Location: Bury St Edmunds United Reformed Church, Whiting Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1NR

Download: Synod Agenda and Directions when available

Timing: Synod Meetings begin at 10.30am, with refreshments served from 10.00am.  Meetings finish with worship at 3.30pm, with refreshments served following worship at 4.00pm.

We do not arrange a creche as a matter of course at our meetings, but please contact the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in good time to allow us to investigate setting up a creche if you would make use of the facility.

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Synod Meeting Minutes - Presentations and Reports

Download: Minutes March 2019  
Download: Revd Paul Whittle Reflection on Forty Years (and what next) of Ministry
Download: Revd Nigel Uden's Presentation - Blessed to be a blessing: living as those baptised into Christ (pdf)
Download: Dr Christine Macleod - Health and Healing WHO definition of health (pdf) 

Download: Minutes 13th October 2018 
Download: Supporting Local Churches Presentation A Denominational View (pdf) 

Download: Minutes 17th March, 2018
Download: Youth Assembly Talk - Save our World, save God's world

Download: Minutes 14th October 2017
Download: Simon Goddard's  - Missional Discipleship
Download: Peter Ball's - Synod Reflection 

Download:  Minutes 18th March 2017
Download: David Cornick's - 'Living with unforeseen consequences: Luther's theses and ecumenism'
Download: Tim Yau Pioneer Reflections - URC Pioneer Pathways?

Download: Minutes 8th October 2016
Download: Reflective account on Synod Meeting - by Louise Tailford - at Stowmarket URC on 8th October 2016 
Download: Minutes 19th March 2016
Download: Report and Pictures from Children's Synod 19th March 2016 -  'Dream'
Download: Reformed Roofrack Talk by -  Revd John Proctor   - Prospects and Possibilities for the United Reformed Church.
Download: Refugee Crisis March 2016 - by Melanie Smith - 5 years since the start of the war in Syria. 

Download: Minutes 10th October 2015
Download: Minutes 14th March 2015
Download: Report and Pictures from 14th March 2015 including Children's Synod 'Hidden Treasures' 

Download: Minutes 11th October 2014
Download: Report and Pictures from 11th October 2014
Download: Minutes 15th March 2014
Download: Report and Pictures from 15th March 2014
Download: Report and Pictures Children's Synod, 15th March 2014 - 'The Pizza Factory'

Download: Minutes 12th October 2013     
Download: Report and Pictures from 12th October 2013 at Stowmarket URC
Download: Minutes 16th March 2013
Download: Report and Pictures from 16th March 2013
Download: Minutes 20th October 2012