LIFE vision party! Saturday 9 November 2-5 pm All saints’ Academy, Cheltenham Blaisdon Way, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL51 0WH Everyone is invited to the Diocese of Gloucester’s LIFE vision party. It willContinue reading
Tag: Children and Families
2019 Advent Calendar launches with competition
The 2019 Real Advent Calendar has been officially launched with a new 24 page Christmas story-activity book, a children’s competition, with profits helping to transform the lives of children inContinue reading
Gloucester Cathedral Wins AHI 2019 Discover Heritage Award
Gloucester Cathedral is delighted to announce that it has won the Historic Properties/Sites category at this year’s Association of Heritage Interpretation Awards. The biennial AHI Awards scheme recognises and rewards the bestContinue reading
Charfield Freshers’ Fair – by Rick Williams
Charfield has had so much new housing recently, that we decided to put on a Freshers’ Fair, just as a university would for its fresh intake of students. Twenty villageContinue reading
Relatable welcome, relatable Jesus
I feel as if I am late to the party with the word ‘relatable’. I’ve only just discovered how widely its being used in popular culture, not just as aContinue reading
The not so happy childhood report
The recent findings from the Children’s Society Good Childhood report are a real wake up call to the unhappiness of young people in our country. Their key findings show AnContinue reading
Active Prayer Space
Earlier this month (8-12 July) PSALMS (Putting Sport Alongside Local Ministries) ran Maidenhill Secondary School’s first ‘Active Prayer Space’ in Stonehouse. Over 400 students from years 8-11 came as partContinue reading
Pulse Leadership Academy Update – Sending out young leaders
Almost 18 months ago, I wrote a piece at the start of the Pulse Leadership Academy with a quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu saying, ‘Real leaders are not blinded byContinue reading
Impact of our collaborative ‘Real Me’ resource
BRF have shared an incredible story about the impact of our collaborative ‘Real Me’ resource…
Faith Encounters: RE & Art Competition Results SPRING 2019
The Christian Arts Festival, the Diocesan Creative Arts Steering Group and the Education Department in the Diocese have worked in partnership to run a Spring Art & RE competition forContinue reading
Come and Join us at the 2019 Jazz Festival
Continuing our partnership Cheltenham Festivals, our Chatterbox tent will return for the first Cheltenham Festival of 2019 – Jazz. Over 20,000 visitors are expect to participate over the festival’s 6Continue reading
Multi Sports Camp a Great Sucess!
On the 18-19 of February, Nathan Youlton who works for PSALMS, ran a Multi Sports camp alongside the vicars, ministers and volunteers from two local churches in Innsworth Community HallContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come 2019 Resources
Free, hard copy, resources will be available at the Maundy Thursday Service in addition to the links to the Thy Kingdom Come website for clergy to collect and distribute toContinue reading
Messy Confirmation – Possible First for Messy Church?
On Thursday 14 March a confirmation service was held at St Peter’s, Newnham, in the Diocese of Gloucester. But this was a confirmation service with a difference – it wasContinue reading
Christian Arts Festival
Christian Arts Festival returns more vibrant, more colourful and more engaging than ever. Running from 23 April – 12 May, 2019 (Easter Holiday Workshops 12 – 17 April), withContinue reading
PSALMS good news story – St Paul’s update
PSALMS love to encourage and support Churches in their ministry. St Pauls in Cheltenham have been kicking a ball around in their local park for years, serving as aContinue reading
Call for Steward assistance at The Christian Arts Festival
Christian Arts Festival Stewards Please click on the flyer and circulate to anyone interested in Stewarding for the Christian Arts Festival 2019 and therefore getting to see the events theyContinue reading
Celebrating 50 years of The Children’s Society’s Christingle
As many of you will be aware, 2018 was a very special year for Christingle, as it marked 50 years since the first Christingle service on behalf of The Children’sContinue reading
Under 5 and flourishing
On 30 March 2019, we will be running a day full of inspiration and exploration for anyone engaging with our youngest children
Running an art exhibition at your church: Case study – St Mary’s Church, Bibury
As an example of an art exhibition in a church, Paul Hobbs has written a report on a show of his at St Mary’s Church, Bibury. The exhibition was comprisedContinue reading
Discover DeCrypt’s Community Art Project: Dry Bones Live
“And shall these dry bones live?” Ezekiel. Discover DeCrypt is the project to regenerate the historic church of St Mary de Crypt and the Old Crypt Schoolroom in Southgate Street,Continue reading
Encouraging Sports Mission update from PSALMS
Last year one lunchtime club had 10 attending, now almost 50 kids per week are hearing and interacting with faith in an active way
An Advent letter from Bishop Rachel
I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert… (Isaiah 43:19)Continue reading
