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What is Goring United Reformed Church?
Goring United Reformed Church is part of the United Reformed Church (URC) in the United Kingdom.
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The URC has around 1500 churches in England, Scotland and Wales with a total membership of about 47000 and more than 600 ministers. More ...
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Slideshow of Church & Goring by sea
Photo Album Celebrating 75th Anniversary
Building of new Church 1961
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Ministers from 1940
What is Goring United Reformed Church? Cont'd
It was formed in 1972 when the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church of England and Wales united, and it was joined by the Reformed Association of Churches of Christ in Great Britain and Ireland in 1981 and the Congregational Union of Scotland in 2000.
The churches of Emmanuel in Worthing, Sompting, Goring and Littlehampton are part of the ‘Worthing Cluster’ and United Reformed Church Southern Synod, whose affairs are governed by the General Assembly.
It was early in the 1930s that Worthing Congregational Church in Shelley Road began planning to build a new church in the rapidly growing area to the west of Worthing.
The present building was opened in September 1961 when the congregation became too large to be accommodated in the church building that is now the hall.
This first building was opened in 1948.
Other churches in Goring with whom we share the Christian faith are English Martyrs Roman Catholic Church, St Mary, St Laurence & St Richard, Church of England, New Life Baptist Church and Bury Drive Methodist Church.