At a Messy Church service at Stoney Stanton earlier this month there was a great celebration. Bishop Saju joined the congregation as he confirmed Connie and licensed Alison and Martin Macklin as Associate Minsters in the church.
Florence Gildea, Social Policy Advisor to the Bishop of Leicester, offers advice on how churches can support young people’s mental health.
Spirits were high at the church of St Hugh on Sunday, as members of the five Harborough Anglican Churches came together to launch Limitless, a new youth focused intergenerational worshipping community. It was an evening of celebration, with live music, Bible study, brightly coloured bunting and a spectacular cake.
'Paraklesis' is part of a new charitable umbrella body for supporting all those in lay ministry.
Rachel Bennetts will move to Cornwall to develop a ministry of hospitality in retreats and spiritual direction.
At a recent All Age Worship service at Christ Church, Mountsorrel, the worshipping community thought about how they've been blessed by God, and how they in turn can be a blessing to others.
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A fledgling church youth group has come together during Advent, to learn, laugh, eat dessert and explore faith together for the first time. The group made up of four teenagers, four adult leaders and curate Revd Ben Williams, have been meeting on Monday evenings since mid-November in Great Glen.
There was great joy at Boundary Farm on Sunday 12 December as a Messy Nativity took place!
The Bishop of Leicester talked with students and staff at the new school
A newly restored bell is sounding at All Saints Church of England Primary School in Coalville