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Give Hope Lent Campaign
17/02/2021
Through the Covid-19 pandemic, the church has come together to care for local communities in crisis. Our friends at YourNeighbour.org along with Stewardship have launched the Give Hope Campaign to celebrate the amazing work the church has done over the last year and is continuing to do.
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Global Leadership Summit
12/09/2020
For many years, the Global Leadership Summit has been an important part of my annual personal development plan, attending either live in Chicago or at one of the satellite host sites in London. This year for obvious reasons the GLS was online only. I joined in on the live stream last month, and found much of the content excellent.
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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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Godparents Sunday and the Great God-Family Picnic
21/05/2021
A chance to welcome, share, celebrate and bless - 11th July 2021
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Godsend book
01/07/2021
Godsend is a toolkit to help you form new Christian communities with people who were not previously attending church. It presents most of the material in the FX Godsend app in book form.
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God’s Big Story series for the under 5’s
20/09/2021
HOPE Together are launching “GOD WASHES THE WORLD” - the first in a series of fantastic resources for under 5’s.
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Greenhouse launching this month
17/09/2020
We are excited to be launching Greenhouse as a new strategic approach to cultivating and sustaining fresh expressions.
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Greenhouse update
24/02/2021
In creating new worshipping communities many enablers are noticing that planters and pioneers are well-served in existing networks and training programmes, whereas parish-based lay people who embark on lower-innovation, smaller mission projects are less well equipped and supported.
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Growing the church out of lockdown conference
04/06/2021
LyCiG (Leading your Church into Growth) is running two big national conferences in October and both are full. Suddenly a door has opened in September for us to run a weekend one.
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Harvest 2020: Thank you to our farmers!
15/09/2020
While the Arthur Rank Centre has long been known as a source of ideas and resources for rural churches, it’s been quite some time since we produced a substantial new harvest resource. But this month, we’re launching our Harvest 2020: Thank you to our farmers! campaign, inspired in large part by the recognition of people across the UK have gained of the role ‘key workers’ have played in keeping us all going through the COVID-19 epidemic.
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