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A youth worker in a Reading parish is having a significant impact in the lives of young people attending church and is reaching into the wider community, supporting knife crime prevention projects.
It has become customary to ring a bell to signal the end of cancer treatment. Seven-year-old Sarah rang the biggest bell she could find – at her local church – to mark the end of two and a half years of treatment.
Some congregations faced with the challenge of raising £120,000 to save their church might have given up before they even started. Not St Helen’s in Dry Sandford!
Parishes in the diocese now have access to more support as they seek to look outwards and grow engagement with their wider community, as part of everyday ministry.
Bishop Gavin raised more than £1,700 for two good causes with his abseil at Dorchester Abbey on Saturday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury signs Rome’s Call for AI Ethics, the final stage of the Oxford Diocesan pledge to endorse fair work.
In the churchyard at Holy Trinity, Prestwood there was a small, secluded area that was in need of something – something to make the area intentionally prayerful.
Joan Hicks had been a Christian since childhood, but it was whilst living and working at the Taizé Community in France in her mid-20s that she first felt a calling to ordained ministry. This began a journey which ended with Joan being part of the first cohort of women to be ordained priest in 1994.
Women took centre stage at a special Eucharist service at Christ Church Cathedral to mark 30 years since women were first ordained priests in the diocese.
The Bishop of Dorchester will be among a team of brave fundraisers, which also includes the Rector the Revd Jane Willis, abseiling down Dorchester Abbey on 4 May.