FEATURE / Harvest Festival services in schools over the coming weeks are playing a major role in helping replenish food bank supplies that have run low over the summer months.

Churches are planning to celebrate Harvest Festival in different ways this year.

Revd Lynn Boyle leads services and works behind the bar as Chaplain of the Country Music Festivals of Whitebottom Farm in Stockport.

COMMENT / The Rt Revd Libby Lane, Bishop of Stockport on Towards a Safer Church: resources for prayer and reflection in worship

A curate has started a local text-a-prayer service for those wanting someone to pray with amid Covid-19 restrictions. 

The pandemic forced the community at Trelawny Benefice to worship outside – a move that has since developed into a fully-fledged outdoor ministry, complete with pet services, farmyard nativities and folk concerts.

The churches of St Peter’s and St Philip’s in Highfields and Evington in Leicester began livestreaming services on Facebook and YouTube from the start of the first lockdown last year.

Growing network of Christians meeting in the great outdoors

A music producer-turned-priest is using dance music to connect with people, spread the Christian message and attract the younger generations into church. 

A curate has engaged young congregants with Minecraft services.