Sam shares his personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. OK, Thy Kingdom Come ended yesterday, but we recorded extra videos because we believe in abundance! We’ve filmedContinue reading
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Thy Kingdom Come, 9 June: Barry’s story
Barry Voice, joint CEO of The Door, Stroud, shares his personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. The penultimate video! We’ve filmed 12 stories across Gloucestershire, to askContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 8 June: Lydia’s story
Lydia shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs until 9 June. We’ve filmed 12 stories across Gloucestershire, to ask how people liveContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 7 June: Suki’s story
The Revd Dr Suki shares his personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs until 9 June. We’ve filmed 12 stories across Gloucestershire, to askContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 6 June: Cara’s story
Cara shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs until 9 June. We’ve filmed 12 stories across Gloucestershire, to ask how people liveContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 5 June: Elizabeth’s story
Elizabeth shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs until 9 June. We’re excited to be joining together with people across the globeContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 4 June: Harrison’s story
Harrison shares his personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs until 9 June. We’re excited to be joining together with people across the globeContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 3 June: Di’s story
Di shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs until 9 June. We’re excited to be joining together with people across the globeContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 2 June: Lorna’s story
Lorna shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs from 30 May to 9 June. We’re excited to be joining together with peopleContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 1 June: Becky’s story
Becky shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs from 30 May to 9 June. We’re excited to be joining together with peopleContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 31 May: Victoria’s story
Victoria, joint CEO of The Door in Stroud, shares her personal story of faith, and asks us to pray. Thy Kingdom Come runs from 30 May to 9 June. We’veContinue reading
Thy Kingdom Come, 30 May: Alistair’s story
Alistair shares his personal story of faith, and asks us to pray Thy Kingdom Come runs from 30 May to 9 June. We’ve filmed 12 stories across Gloucestershire, to askContinue reading
Personal stories of healing
Diocese of Gloucester, Stories of Healing & Wholeness – Some of these personal stories have been anonymised, the people who were healed have given permission for their stories to beContinue reading
Melanie’s story: gaining confidence
“It made me brave” Melanie is a physics teacher in a secondary school, part of a very small but living rural church and went on the church’s first Fruitfulness onContinue reading
Out of turmoil: Sam’s story
Trying to deal with years of addiction, turmoil and self-harm, Sam (our digital comms officer) shares his personal story. “Over a period of years I actually craved death, so itContinue reading
How are we called into discipleship?
We meet students from around Cheltenham to discuss how God calls us, and what we might be called to do! Bishop Rachel went along with the Revd Pauline Godfrey, toContinue reading
My vocation: Ed’s story
Following our series of ordinations stories, we met with Revd Ed Sauven to hear a little about his own extraordinary story…
My vocation: Helkias’s story
“I think God calls people to be Plumbers, Nurses, Architects, just as much as He calls people to be Ordained.” We met up with Helkias Mapimhidze to hear his story
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A few weeks ago I was with a young man who’d tried to take his own life. It was quite the scene; the guys who found him went into shockContinue reading
Bishop Rachel writes to her 20 year old self
Bishop Rachel has written a letter to her 20 year old self as part of Gloucestershire’s Live’s – Letters to my younger self series
My vocation: Joy’s story
Joy Ludlow tells us why she got ordained; “It’s not really anything that I planned!”.
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My vocation: Jo’s story
The Revd Jo Pestell shares her story of why she got ordained; “For me, even in the times when I’m like; “God, you don’t exist!”, I’ve just felt deeply withinContinue reading
Creative connections between churches and schools
Jan van der Lely, Vicar at Thornbury telling her #ourLIFEstory We recently had an outdoor service at St Mary’s School in Thornbury. For the first time we used the newContinue reading
Why I got ordained: Frances’ story
“I think during very very difficult times… I’m a single mother …those moments, God has to work with me, and its worked well. Having twins on your own and goingContinue reading
