Bishop Rachel takes us behind locked doors and closed windows to share in the fear and emotion in the days following Jesus’ death. Watch Bishop Robert’s Easter message for familiesContinue reading
Tag: Children and Families
Bishop Robert’s Easter message for families and households
Bishop Robert unwraps his Easter egg on YouTube and shares his thoughts about this essential part of Easter. You can catch new messages on our website each day this week.Continue reading
Postponed – Diocesan service of Baptism and Confirmation
Bishops Rachel and Robert discuss this event, and resources available:
Feeding the 5000 in under three weeks!
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, The Long Table, supported by the Diocese of Gloucester, have developed a project to feed people in need. The Long Table are making delicious,Continue reading
Easter 2020: praying with nature
These prayers for Easter 2020 enable us to engage with Easter hope by praying in nature.
Postponed – Bishops Q&A in Gloucester Cathedral
Join Bishops Rachel and Robert as they discuss their faith, openly and honestly, with people preparing for confirmation. In the video below, the Bishops discuss this event, and resources available:
POSTPONED: Connect Day Conference “Joined Up Thinking”
This event has been postponed Focus – to inspire, connect and encourage our churches to engage with children and young people and their schools Who’s it for – clergy, layContinue reading
Engaging with Families – Part 2
Children and Families Forum God’s story, your story, my story. Sometimes we shy away from deeper conversations, those which require trust and signposting to outside agencies or those which ourContinue reading
LIFE party great success!
Our diocesan LIFE vision party, held at All Saints’ Academy was attended by over 400 people. People of all ages got stuck into sport activities, circus skills, craft activities, dancing, singingContinue reading
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
