Welcome to the Epping United Reformed Church Website
Sunday Worship at 11am
All Welcome
Minister: Revd Karen Knight
We are part of the Herts and Essex Border Ecumenical Partnership. Our services are led by our minister or a minister or lay preacher from the ecumenical partnership and are usually made up of hymns and songs, prayers, Bible readings, an all age talk and a sermon. Our services also include junior church and are followed by refreshments. We celebrate Communion on the first Sunday of each month and everyone is welcome to receive Communion.
Our current church newsletter: Stepping Stones December 2025 & January 2026
Our Mission Plan: Click to download Here
Our Safeguarding Policy: Epping URC Safeguarding Policy Statement
Upcoming Events
Christmas Events:
Christmas Pantomime: It’s a Boy! The Nativity Story as You’ve Never Seen It Before!
The very first — and best — Christmas story EVER! This time brought to life as a laugh-out-loud family pantomime. Join our dancing donkeys, shepherds who’ve lost their sheep, and the baddest baddie of them all, King Herod, for a festive adventure bursting with music, mischief, and mayhem.
Packed with fun and full of heart, It’s a Boy! by LolBear shares the true meaning of Christmas — the story of Jesus’ birth — through joy, laughter, and plenty of panto magic.
Your children will be the stars of the show, stepping on stage as Wise Men, Innkeepers, Angels, and more. Expect hilarious skits, classic panto moments (“He’s behind you!”), and heart-warming scenes that celebrate the wonder of that first Christmas.
A perfect festive treat for the whole family — joyful, funny, faith-filled, and full of audience participation from start to finish.
Followed by refreshments. Retiring Collection for Crisis at Christmas
Saturday 20th December at 9:45am at Epping URC
Epping Churches release statement on the recent unrest in Epping
Epping United Reformed Church, Epping Restore Community Church, St John’s Church, Epping and St Albans, Coopersale have released the following joint statement:
As churches we share in the distress of our community in recent days and weeks. We acknowledge the fears of so many of our friends and neighbours, and are shocked by public words of hate and anger. We recognise that we all have different experiences and viewpoints; what brings us together is our collective responsibility to live peacefully together and prioritise justice, kindness, and care for one another, remembering our shared humanity. With others we are praying and working for peace, patience, and unity, and for our community to remain a place of safety and welcome for all who live and work here.
27/7/2025
Churches Together in England article: https://cte.org.uk/prayers-for-peace-in-epping/
The United Reformed Church
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.’
Find out more, by exploring the URC website, or (even better) by coming to meet us and worshipping with us.
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