Our Jubilee – time to write!

During 2019 (and to be used as part of our Jubilee gathering 8/9 July), UTU would like to publish 50 guest blog posts of around 300 words, each with an insight into how UTU has shaped your discipleship and/or ministry.  Please send your contributions to christine.dutton@methodist.org.uk by end January 2019. If possible,…

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Bishop of Sheffield speaks at our AGM – come and listen!

‘Contrary to their Profession’: Reflections on being an urban misfit in a majority-suburban church’.  Rt. Revd. Dr. Pete Wilcox, the Bishop of Sheffield  Annual General Meeting  Saturday 24 November 2018, 2.15 – 4.30 pm    1pm: Bring your own lunch get-together.  Tea/coffee provided.  All welcome   We are very excited to welcome the Rt. Revd. Dr. Pete Wilcox,…

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December Colloquium

Tomorrow! Wednesday 5 December 12 – 1.30pm Colloquium: What makes a good city? Mr John Mothersole, Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council,  on Economic Prosperity All welcome – free entry John Mothersole is Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council, having formerly been the Council’s Executive Director of Development, Environment and…

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7 November 2018 Colloquium

November Colloquium: Professor Alan Walker on Fairness What makes a good city?   Wednesday 7 November. 12-1.30pm  All welcome – free entry  Alan Walker is Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield. He has written widely on ageing and on other issues of social policy. He chaired…

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UTU 50th Anniversary

2019 will mark the 50th anniversary of UTU and we would like you to join us in celebrating our journey thus far and help us to look forward and plan for the future. We hope you will join in the following: During 2019 we would like to publish 50 guest blog posts…

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Autumn Colloquia 2018

AUTUMN COLLOQUIA 2018: What makes a good city?  Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. Jeremiah 29:7 This autumn we are holding a series of three lunchtime colloquia…

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New beginnings at UTU

Our new office administrator, Jill Wagg, will be taking over from Helen in September.  Jill will be in the office Monday mornings from 9.30 – 1.30 and working an additional 8 hours from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Grounded in faith and family, she brings many years of office administration…

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