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
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Bishop Rachel’s Christmas Day Sermon
Gloucester Cathedral – Christmas Day 2018 The Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester Gospel reading: Luke 2: 8-20 I wonder what has changed for you this year. Perhaps it’sContinue reading
#FollowTheStar this Christmas
The Church of England today launched its own Christmas advert, with the message that churchgoers experience a feel-good factor which lasts all year. The 90 second advert uses no actorsContinue reading
Build peace at home and abroad this Christmas
Bishop Rachel invites the people of Gloucestershire to build peace at home and abroad this Christmas Gloucestershire churchgoers and those in the wider community are being invited to help buildContinue reading
Christmas Tree Festival at All Hallows Church South Cerney
All Hallows South Cerney Christmas Tree Festival
Community Carol Service at St Mary’s Church, Newent
Christmas Events at St Mary’s Church, Newent
Nativity – A Visual Story of God’s gift to us
St Catharine’s Church are hosting a display of commercial and hand-made nativity sets. Everyone is welcome. When: Saturday 1st December 10-3.30 Where: St Catharine’s Church London Road, Gloucester GL2 0RRContinue reading
Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary’s Church Newent
St Mary’s Church – Christmas tree festival
Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary’s Church Newent
St Mary’s Church – Christmas Tree Festival
Carols on the hour and Christmas market at Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral’s choirs are limbering up for a marathon carol-singing session on Saturday 8 December
Christmas Tree Festival at St Mary’s Church Newent
St Mary’s Church – Christmas Tree Festival
Christmas attendance at highest level for more than a decade
While traditional Sunday attendance edged lower in 2017 (in line with long-term trends), the numbers attending Christmas services increased by 3.4 per cent to 2.68 million nationally
A cracking Christmas campaign with some simple wins for churches!
#FollowTheStar is the Church of England’s 2018 Christmas campaign, and offers some easy ways to get involved
#GodWithUs Christmas videos
Lots of brilliant #GodWithUs videos can be found here – Christmas 2017 videos. This is one of our favorites!
Hope at Christmas
‘All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was theContinue reading
Children’s Society and Christingle services
‘All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was theContinue reading
Dementia friendly carol service
This has been produced by Exeter Diocese and may be of value to those wanting to ensure that their carol services are dementia friendly, or putting on special dementia friendlyContinue reading
New Year, New You
A message from Bishop Rachel and Dean Stephen As we enter the autumn there are already Advent and Christmas events in the diary, and no doubt future plans are alreadyContinue reading
Sharing our stories; the ‘Digital Advent’ project
We’re hearing different voices in the congregation, giving more people an opportunity to share their faith in a fairly safe way, and we’re also giving the wider congregation an opportunityContinue reading
