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Holy Nativity Easter Joy
Holy Nativity shared some hope for the future with the local community as it gave 500 Easter eggs to local children. Revd Robb and the church community organised the eggs for every pupil at Ash Green Primary School. “This past 12 months has been so hard for everyone, none more so than our children” says…
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Praxis Labs Centre for Hope and Activism
Praxis Labs run courses to help you turn your faith into action. They are starting another one on 8 April. It’s hugely accessible, really inspiring and welcomes all theological perspectives. It’s also ‘pay as you can afford’ and so accessible from a finance perspective too. “As lockdown (hopefully) comes to an end in the next…
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Ground Level Unemployment Support
At Jericho, we support people, marginalised by society, overcome barriers to become fulfilled at work and in life. Currently, across our nation, we face rapidly rising levels of unemployment with a massive hit on 16-24 yr olds, huge competition for every job, and increased risk of long-term unemployment for lower-skilled and older job-seekers. Our Ignition…
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Who’s who @NECN
Introducing Emma Ash – Trustee From living in a high-rise building in Hong Kong and travelling back to the U.K. staying with my Mum in her council flat, trying to discern my calling, I ended up writing a piece for the Church Times on the financial barriers that ordination places onto the work-class. Andy Delmege…
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Church-Related Community Work (CRCW)
CRCW is a recognised ministry in the United Reformed Church (URC), initiated 40 years ago, with an equal status and terms of settlement to the ‘normal’ ministry of Word and sacraments. CRCWs are called by God, professionally trained and qualified in community development work and theology, and then commissioned to work in partnership with local…
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Upcoming church and community events
A number of great events hosted by The United Reformed Church are coming up in the next month or so, including the use of church buildings in the community, Black History Monthly and online discipleship. Please do share these with anyone you feel would be interested. ‘Building for the Future’: 3pm April 19th An online…
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Working Class and Mission
When talking of ‘the Working Class’ Largely shaped by definition, It’s economic, ‘lack of brass’ Along with structural composition. Yet this is only just the frame That doesn’t change our allocation. It’s from outside and will constrain And isn’t of the people’s making. Working class culture, sometimes viewed As adaption in response Should…
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Who’s who @NECN
Over the coming months we are going to take a look at who the Trustees of NECN are, their passions, their skills and what they get up to in and out of NECN. If you would like to get more involved, feel you have passion or skills which could be useful please do get in…
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Interview with Guvna B
Guvna B, a double MOBO Award winning rapper and author from East London, was recently interviewed at the Everything Conference, the focus of which is how Christians can renew culture. Guvna B has faced challenges and disadvantages in life but has nevertheless achieved some remarkable things. How has God has used these weaknesses or the…
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Apostolic training for an indigenous ministry?
Estates practitioner and priest, Joe Hasler offers some thoughts around training local people for God’s mission in extracts from his poem below. The whole reflection can be downloaded at the end of this post. Apostolic means ‘Go to’ or ‘being sent’. An Apostle meaning ‘one sent on a mission’. We have had the…
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Estates at Advent 2020
We may be locked down but let’s open up the beauty of estate churches. We want to create an Advent Calendar featuring different estates for each day. If you want to take part email christinem@cofebirmingham.com with a photo from your estate or church, the name & town of your estate for #EstatesatAdvent If you…
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Managing a changed financial landscape in 2020
2020 has been a year for polarising the rich and the poor. Those who are in well-paid jobs and who are able to work from home saved 8.6% of their income in the first three months of 2020 according to Christians Against Poverty. Sadly, those who are the lowest earners and the under-30s have been…
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