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HOPE at Christmas magazine
21/10/2020
Christmas is a wonderful time to share the joy of Jesus’ birth. Use the HOPE at Christmas magazine as a giveaway with details of your festive events. As always it is packed with features, competitions and giveaways.
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The Christmas Story
20/10/2020
HOPE Together helps churches celebrate Christmas at the heart of their communities
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Supporting the Bereaved in the Season of Remembrance
13/10/2020
With many thousands of extra deaths this year, the Church’s Season of Remembrance – from All Souls to Armistice Day - has the greatest poignancy of our lives.
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All Souls, Remembering and Remembrance
12/10/2020
All Souls / All Saints Day and Remembrance Sunday will be very different this year – but this is exactly what will make what the church offers memorable.
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HOPE Together Christmas 2020
09/10/2020
HOPE Together helps churches celebrate Christmas at the heart of their communities
Christmas 2020 might be very different – but it is still a key season to make Jesus known.
This year HOPE Together have published a great HOPE at Christmas magazine, published in partnership with Hope for Every Home. There’s also a children’s booklet with the Happyland characters telling The Christmas Story available at the end of October, plus the fantastic Happyland nativity video. And, as we head into the New Year, HOPE has lots of resources, sermon ideas and invitations to introduce The Wellbeing Journey at Christmas and New Year events.
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Share Christmas with J. John
08/10/2020
This year, I am offering to preach an evangelistic Christmas message in every church that would like me to.
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CPAS Advent and Christmas Resources
07/10/2020
We want to help church leaders plan for Advent and Christmas as much as possible in these uncertain times. CPAS has produced three simple guides, full of ideas, that are free and accessible to all leaders.
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God Stories Today
06/10/2020
Have you looked at God Stories Today? A project from the Revd. Chris Thomson, this YouTube channel consists of interviews with Christian influencers about their story of faith. A recent interviewee was our own Stephen Hance.
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HOPE in Uncertain Times Update
05/10/2020
Life before lockdown wasn’t always a bed of roses. But it was normal and predictable, usually… Now everything seems unknown. What does the future hold? Is there a door of hope?
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The Nativity Project
05/10/2020
This is a resource being developed in the Diocese of St Albans, between Soul Survivor, the Cathedral and the Education and Mission Departments.
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