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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is marked between 18 and 25 January each year. During these eight days, Christians all over the world come together from different traditions to pray for the unity of the Church. Over the last 70 years, Christian unity has been considered critical to the Church’s mission in the world, for, unless … Read more
The head of the Maronite Church and Patriarch of Antioch and All of the East, His Beatitude Cardinal Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, will make his first-ever pastoral visit to the United Kingdom from Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 January 2023. At a time of unprecedented political and economic turmoil in Lebanon, Cardinal al-Rahi, as head of … Read more
Birmingham Cathedral’s remarkable stained-glass windows will be lit up in dazzling colour next week as part of an immersive light and sound experience that will amaze visitors. World-renowned light and sound projection company Luxmuralis will bring the Cathedral’s four historic Burne-Jones windows to life in a spectacular performance suitable for all ages. The use of light and … Read more
A church leader with strong Birmingham connections has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honour’s list. Having co-chaired (with Priti Patel) the Parliamentary Windrush Working Group, Bishop Dr Derek Webley was honoured for services to the Windrush Generation. The Windrush Working Group was set up in June 2020 to bring together community organisations … Read more
A collaboration of poetry and paintings by Adrian Plass and Ben Ecclestone has recently been re-curated as an art exhibition and is now available free to venues across the UK. The works of art in the exhibition, titled Words from The Cross, are centred around the events of Good Friday and provide a focus for … Read more
Sunday 1 January 2023 marks the 250th anniversary of the first congregational singing of the well-known and well-loved hymn, ‘Amazing Grace.’ The hymn was written by the Revd John Newton in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1772 to accompany the sermon that he was to preach at St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church, Olney (Buckinghamshire) on New Year’s Day, Friday 1 January 1773. … Read more
Sharing with permission from CAP UK, Christians Against Poverty https://capuk.org/news-and-blog/how-to-save-on-the-cost-of-christmas As we plan ahead for the festive season, many of us are looking for ways to save money on the cost of Christmas this year. Here are our ideas to make sure celebrating doesn’t come with too high a price tag. Plan how you’ll limit the … Read more
In collaboration with the Birmingham PlayCare Network, the Edgbaston Foundation, the Birmingham Mail, Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Birmingham Live, Thrive Together Birmingham is once again collecting new (or good-as-new) toys, crafts and books to help children aged 0 – 16 in Birmingham. Toys4Birmingham aims to reach every child in temporary accommodation in Birmingham, many … Read more
A Midlands-based Mission Training Course will begin in mid-January and continue throughout 2023. ‘Forge’ cultivates missional community by identifying, developing, and training missional leaders, teams and practitioners. It trains ordinary people to become missional and thrive in whatever context to which one is called. This may be in pioneering new things, church planting, working in … Read more
Ahead of Advent Sunday (November 27th) we are sharing resources and materials from Churches. If there is a resource that is not included and you would like to make us aware of, please get in touch via enquiries@birminghamchurches.org.uk Church of England Follow the Star – The Great Invitation Following a series of difficult Christmases, churches … Read more