The Ugly Duckling Company has released KOBLE, an exciting new resource to equip worshipping communities to explore mission in their context. KOBLE (a Norwegian word meaning ‘connect’) looks at theContinue reading
Month: November 2022
Share a meal and be part of The Longest Table this Christmas
Things are increasingly difficult for people. We know that awesome things happen when we eat together. Joining in with The Longest Table is a great way people can do somethingContinue reading
Taking Eco Church In An Hour to the next level
We’ve had the latest statistics back from Eco Church and nearly one-third of churches in the Diocese of Gloucester are registered for their Eco Church Award. 114 churches have takenContinue reading
Bishop Rachel writes foreword for printed Welcome Directory
The Welcome Directory helps faith communities become places where people who leave prison find acceptance. As a Patron, Bishop Rachel was invited to write the foreword for a new printedContinue reading
Message from Bishop Rachel, 1 November 2022
Today is All Saints Day – perhaps a welcome focus amid news and social media full of judgmental comment and disdainful appraisal of individuals whose names are in the public domain. However, All Saints Day is not primarily a day for moving from criticism to celebration of special people from the past whose stories are in print or whose images appear in stained-glass windows. Neither is it a day for simply extolling the virtues of the few who we perceive to be particularly significant. Rather, it is a day for celebrating the grace and love of God who in Christ has drawn us into a community of saints who belong to God and to one another. Those on earth and those who have gone before us.
