Weddings - a wonderful opportunity
Published on: 1st March 2019Why weddings matter...
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Why weddings matter...
"Everyone loves pizza" enthused curate, Revd Paul Roberts, as he unpacked the homemade pizza dough, cheese and tomato paste in the village hall kitchen, "we make them together and then while they're in the oven we discuss a topic or look at a bible story and draw out some questions they might have about it."
Over 60 Open the Book teams across our diocese are telling Bible stories in assemblies at local schools. Through Open the Book together we are reaching more than 6000 children...
The Church of England's General Synod has approved measures to make it easier to reduce the number of services in a multi-parish benefice. Once approved by parliament the new legislation will mean that Morning and Evening Prayer will not need to be held in each church, and Holy Communion will not need to take place in each church every week. Under the new legislation, the same services only need to take place in a single church within a benefice, at the same regularity.