Josh from Severn Vale shares his story of faith. This video formed part of our recent online Festival of Everyday Faith – for additional personal stories of faith, please useContinue reading
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Everyday Faith: Rachel shares her story
Rachel from Forest South shares her story of faith. This video formed part of our recent online Festival of Everyday Faith – for additional personal stories of faith, please useContinue reading
An adventure in conservation: the Stoke Orchard Wall Paintings Conservation Project
The Stoke Orchard Wall Paintings Conservation Project is a success story of collaboration and partnership in the Diocese of Gloucester, demonstrating that heritage conservation can excite, inspire and benefit ChristianContinue reading
Messy Church at Tuffley
Messy Church happens in Tuffley on a monthly basis. Helen McGeoch, Pioneer in Tuffley says, “Messy Church is so good, it’s breaking down barriers that separate church from community andContinue reading
Diocese of Gloucester Funerals
Diocese of Gloucester Funerals is a diocesan initiative offered to Funeral Directors to provide the most complete range of Ministers’ for funerals from a single source. These links will leadContinue reading
Collective Worship brings inclusive, inspirational services to worshipping communities
In Church of England schools, collective worship reflects the traditions of the Church of England and develops learners’ understanding of Anglican traditions and practice. Many schools work with the localContinue reading
FestivAll sees communities coming together
The Diocese of Gloucester is an active member of the multi-agency movement, FestivALL. As a partnership, we are working together to break down barriers in our communities across ethnicity, faith,Continue reading
Great ideas for Baptism!
What makes Baptism special? We spoke to members of St John’s Church to find out. Watch now: Read more: Baptism in the Church of England
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
Faith in a Gin Distillery. Felicity’s Vocation Story
Following our series on vocations and faith at work, Bishop Robert Springett recently met Felicity Hall, Financial Director at Gin Distillery Bramley and Gage, to find out how she livesContinue reading
Bishop Rachel talks on female leadership and the #metoo movement
We asked Bishop Rachel about some of the challenges of female leadership; where her confidence comes from, and how she responds to things like the #metoo movement
Forest Church: connecting with God out in nature
Many people around us find that their most profoundly spiritual moments are when they are outdoors, in nature. The Revd Cate Williams, our Mission and Evangelism Officer, says “Increasingly IContinue 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
Malarkey at the Medieval Festival
Tewkesbury Abbey and Tewkesbury Churches Together, by the Revd Wendy Ruffle Tewkesbury is host to one of the largest battle re-enactments in Europe, where the Yorkists and Lancastrians come togetherContinue reading
Just a girl, Olivia Burton blogs
15 year old Olivia Burton got in touch with us about the liedentity campaign with this message and poem. “Girls are physically and mentally affected by society’s push for themContinue reading
With
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
Deepening faith: what we thought of the CGH course
Having just completed the CGH Foundations course, we asked Kathryn Lea and and Sarah Parkes to tell us what they thought of the whole experience. Watch the short video here:Continue reading
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