On 11 October, the International Day of the Girl Child, Mothers’ Union joins with Women’s Aid to support their Come Together to End Domestic Abuse campaign so that no girl
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Community meals bring families together in Lydney
Throughout the school summer holidays, churches in Lydney were busy providing a weekly meal to families. Jane Penny of Churches Together in Lydney shares how this simple initiative opened up opportunities for connection and friendship.
James MacDowall-Scott joins All Saints as Director of Music
All Saints Church, Pittville in Cheltenham has recently welcomed James MacDowall-Scott a new Director of Music.
Siblings organise fundraiser at St Barnabas Church
On Sunday, 14 August, St Barnabas Church, hosted a fundraiser in aid of Myleoma UK.
Northleach church attempts Guinness World Record
With the aim of ‘building faith – one brick at a time’, LEGO® CHURCH is an activity-based, family church service, where time is set aside for children to respond creatively using Lego®.
Baptism testimonies shared at St Matthew’s and The Minster
On 3 July, four adult members of the worshipping community at St Matthew’s and The Minster were baptised. All spoke movingly about their lives before they met Jesus and how
OneDiocese blog: DI Diane Blandford on flowers after genocide
11 July is Srebrenica Memorial Day and Detective Inspector Diane Blandford shares her experiences of visiting the survivors of the Bosnian genocide in this month’s #OneDiocese blog.
Bishop Rachel urges the Government to focus on preventative and rehabilitative measures
Bishop Rachel has spoken in the House of Lords in response to the Queen’s Speech. She said, “I was perturbed that in relation to criminal justice the gracious [Queen’s] Speech
Message from Bishop Robert, 22 March 2022
On Monday last week, I found myself with a group of our clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church of Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank.
God asked me to adopt on Mothering Sunday
On Mothering Sunday 2020, Katherine heard God calling her to adoption. She shares her story. “I was 35 and had been praying for a husband and family. It hadn’t happened
Bishop Rachel’s book, Encounters
A good read through Lent 2022 ~ Bishop Rachel’s book Encounters: Jesus, connection and story: past, present and future “This book with its focus on encounter seeks to celebrate
Gloucestershire MU gets a new chaplain
The Revd Liz Palin is now the Chaplain for the Gloucestershire Mothers’ Union. Liz was the director of Glenfall House, the diocesan retreat house where many Mothers’ Union retreats were
Bags of joy at Christmas
Generous people in the Churn Valley Benefice have been donating Bags of Joy to people across the area who have been having a difficult year.
“We cannot punish children for their parents’ mistakes”
As published in The Times, Red Box on Tuesday 7 December
New Bishop elected in our partner diocese
A new Bishop has been elected in our partner diocese of Western Tanganyika. Emmanuel Bwatta, Principal of Lake Tanganyika Theological College has been appointed Bishop-elect and will succeed Bishop Sadock
Message from Bishop Rachel, 23 November 2021
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which
Celebrating a reconnection with God and community
The Celebrate congregation based in Prior’s Park, Tewkesbury have been on a week’s trip to the Christian Adventure Centre at Viney Hill. 32 people, including 19 children and teenagers went
A comic strip pointed me to my true calling
Exhausted primary school teacher Joanne Wykes was spending her life pushing herself to excel at work and also had tried to give everything to her previous church. But when lockdown
Hope for the generations
A #OneDiocese blog by the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith, Vicar of Bibury with Winson and Barnsley and Diocesan Missioner for New Worshipping Communities. “On Wednesday last week, my family and I
You can’t love like God without loving his creation, blog by Abby Button
The most encouraging posts I read about living sustainably are the ones that say you don’t have to do it perfectly or change everything about your lifestyle, but to do something little is better than nothing. Thankfully we don’t have to fix this problem by ourselves, but in partnership with God, whose power is greatest in our weakness.
Bishop Rachel’s Ministry Gathering Sermon
Ministry Gathering Wednesday 6 October Bishop Rachel’s Sermon First Reading Exodus 3.1-6 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond
Be the change you want to see in the world
A blog from the Revd Dr (Mother) Alycia Timmis, Priest-in-Charge, The Northleach Benefice “Justice” is a word we use and hear quite a lot, but what does it mean? It
Bishop Rachel’s Address at Diocesan Synod
Life is a constant patchwork of endings and beginnings and beginnings and endings.
Dreams do come true, by Mother Alycia
Blog by the Revd Dr (Mother) Alycia Timmis: “If we only dare to dream and to trust, God is faithful and takes the hodgepodge, patchwork of our lives and weaves them for His Glory.”
