Amid divided opinions, we continue to build community, offer friendship and share the love of Jesus.

Amid neighbours of many races and cultures, we believe in fellowship that crosses every boundary of frontier and nation. So we value especially the friends whose roots are different from our own.

We support our MPs, who now have new tasks to tackle, and surely feel fragile after the death of Jo Cox. They deserve our prayers, and perhaps a word of encouragement, in the work they do for us.

We keep up our personal and church contacts in other lands. Britain still needs good relationships with the countries around us, and personal connections are part of that.

And we continue to keep our eye open to the needs of the weak, in our own land and in the many poor and troubled countries around God’s world.

All of this we do, for Jesus’ sake, in the world he lived in. In difficult times, Jesus spoke, acted and loved with the grace and goodness of God. So may we, the morning after.

John Proctor, URC General Secretary