This Christmas, many people will be in difficult situations and linking with organisations across the diocese, we are sharing some positive ways you can make a difference in people’s lives.Continue reading
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A call to prayer for the nation
Join us and pray for the nation over the next month of lockdown in England. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are …
Feed your community this Christmas
Following on from our Feeding the 5,000 project, providing nutritious meals for those in need at the beginning of lockdown, we are once again partnering with The Long Table to offer Christmas mealsContinue reading
Gloucester Cathedral ‘Beacon of Hope’ Appeal
Launched in June, the Cathedral’s Bacon of Hope Appeal is seeking to raise £1 million by Christmas to keep the Cathedral open for everyone. Prior to this global pandemic theContinue reading
Bishop Rachel’s Christmas Day sermon.
The full text of Bishop Rachel’s Christmas Day sermon is now available
Turning at the Turn of the Year – A video message from Bishop Rachel
The light of Christ shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it
Follow the Star – Advent 2019 starts here!
‘Twas the week before Advent, and all through the … anyway, you get the idea. Last year, the national #FollowTheStar campaign had a social media reach of 8 million people…
Christmas carol battle video
Christmas is better when we join together. We love this new Christmas carol battle video from the Diocese of St Albans. Let’s share some Christmas joy and get people singing.
Follow the Star – guest blog from Nick Davies
Nick Davies, Team Rector in South Cheltenham writes … Last year, our church used the #FollowTheStar materials in social media, posters, Church decorations and branding to try to get messagesContinue 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
I̶t̶’̶s̶ ̶C̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶m̶a̶s̶!̶ Get ready …
OK, it may not be Christmas quite yet, but here are some key things for worshipping communities to think about ahead of the season
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
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
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 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
