Church Life Review Group
Below you can find papers and reports produced by the Church Life Review Group for the latest meeting.聽 The CLRG reports from the previous meetings are also available for download.
The Church Life Review Group was set up in 2020 to review the life, structures, resources and work of the 国产无码 to enable a faithful response to the challenges presented in Paper A1 Toward the Future of the 国产无码. This paper reflected that the pandemic has become a moment that has revealed strengths, weaknesses and possibilities in the life of the church we maybe were not aware of.
The CLR Group is now moving into its second design phase, with the formation of three Task Groups that will help design future arrangements for support services, paid lay ministries, and financial and legal systems.
The task groups will be responsible for:
- Identifying/designing options for future ways of operating relevant to their group鈥檚 remit
- Undertaking feasibility studies for possible models
- Testing models against the values and principles agreed by General Assembly
- Consulting widely upon potential changes
- Producing recommendations for General Assembly in 2025
Church Life Review Group Papers from Previous Years
2023
- Church Life Review Report – General Assembly 2023 (PDF | 198kb)
- Church Life Review Structures – General Assembly 2023 (PDF | 209kb)
- Synods and General Assembly: Combined Financial Analysis ( | 396kb)
- Local Churches and Good Governance (PDF | 566kb)
2022
- Church Life Review Report – General Assembly (PDF | 55kb)
- Initial Update from the Church Life Review (PDF | 85kb)
- Church Life Review Report – Executive Assembly 2022 (PDF | 98kb)
- Church Life Review Session Presentation (PPTX | 924kb)
Other Church Life Review Group Papers
- Towards a 国产无码 Theology of Money (PDF | 338kb)
- The 国产无码: A Paradoxical Church at a Crossroads (PDF | 13mb)
Church Life Review Group - financial information webinar from MKS
The United Reformed Church has lacked good quality, consolidated, and comparable financial information across its Synods and General Assembly with which to take decisions for its future.
The Church Life Review Group, General Secretary, and Chief Financial Officer selected Moore Kingston Smith (Non-profit Advisory) to collect information from 国产无码 Synods and then to consolidate this information for the CLRG.
This webinar provides an understanding of the work that MKS has carried out on behalf of the Church Life Review Group.
For a full list of papers being presented at this year’s General Assembly, visit GA2023
