{"id":20638,"date":"2023-03-12T22:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T22:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=20638"},"modified":"2023-05-26T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:11:45","slug":"the-story-of-the-united-reformed-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-story-of-the-united-reformed-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the United Reformed Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20639 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40-547x800.jpg 547w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40-492x720.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-12-at-22.05.40.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Recommended reading!<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&#8216;The sun shone on London for 5 October 1972. \u00a0Three thousand people, Congregationalists and Presbyterians, gathered to become the United Reformed Church, celebrating the fruition of nine years&#8217; work and full of hope for the future. \u00a0Leading churchmen danced in the aisle. They did not rejoice for the creation of a new Church, they hailed the dawn of a new age of the reunion of Churches.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In this highly readable account, to mark the URC&#8217;s jubilee year, Stephen Tomkins takes us through the story of the Church from 1972 to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Price: \u00a0\u00a37.99 from the URC Bookshop. \u00a0Order a copy<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/urcshop.co.uk\/that-they-all-may-be-one-stephen-tomkins\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended reading! &#8216;The sun shone on London for 5 October 1972. \u00a0Three thousand people, Congregationalists and Presbyterians, gathered to become the United Reformed Church, celebrating the fruition of nine years&#8217; work and full of hope for the future. \u00a0Leading churchmen danced in the aisle. They did not rejoice for the creation of a new Church, &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-story-of-the-united-reformed-church\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Story of the United Reformed Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20641,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions\/20641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}