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Music and Liturgy for the Trinity

22nd May 2023

Music and Liturgy for Evening Worship

10th March 2023

Music and Liturgy for Meditation

30th January 2023

Music and Liturgy for Lent

12th January 2023

Music and Liturgy for Meditation

6th January 2023

Music and Liturgy for Epiphany

14th November 2022

Commercial: What kind of business?

23rd October 2022

There are broadly three kinds of businesses available to congregations that wish to pursue commercial engagement in the spirit envisaged in this chapter...

Compassion: Shifting from Food bank to Food co-op

22nd October 2022

How to shift from food banks to food cooperatives? An informal consortium of church-based food banks and alternative food providers in Hull, together with similar consortia in other parts of the country maintain that a form of self-generated ‘Community Cash First’ grants system is also needed to make the ‘Cash First’ approach sustainable in the long run and end the need for food banks in the first place. In order to achieve this, they are at varying stages...

Congregation: Village churches

21st October 2022

How many times have you heard (or said yourself), “If only we had a kitchen and a toilet, we could...”? Whilst it’s fair to say that modern facilities can make a difference to the overall comfort of the church, having a toilet and/or kitchen will not in themselves bring people in. People come through the church doors primarily because of relationships, not facilities. Those relationships will have many different faces...

Congregation: Abundance in context...

21st October 2022

HeartEdge 4 Cs can be "explored from within existing churches and organisations which have a clear sense of their own historical, geographical and social context. The emphasis here is not on creating new churches, but on opening existing churches up to breathe in the new life of the Spirit as they engage with the realities within which they find themselves..."

Music and Liturgy for Advent

17th October 2022

Congregation: Annual Report - Six Top Tips

22nd September 2022

What if the annual report was less report and more a promotional opportunity - a resource to explain your mission and impact? The annual report can feel like a clinical statement of facts and figures that satisfy a regulatory requirement; boring to write, boring to read. If you treat the exercise as something akin to creating a brochure showing all the great ministry you’ve done this year. Explaining the impact you’ve made to your congregation and to your community, you switch from reporting facts to sharing good news about your church and community.