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Living in Estate Ministry – Out now!
Writer and researcher Martyn Casserly has been looking at some questions and answers that could help people called to estates ministry.
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A Gospel Big Enough for Byker
the work of some of our Newcastle Group in The Church Times
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Estates Evangelism Task Group: Paper for the General Synod
To have a loving, worshipping, serving Christian community on every significant social housing estate in England. You can read the February 2019 General Synod Motion and background paper here (it was carried unanimously) General Synod motion
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Bishop Philip North’s address to Synod
When the early apostles set out of fulfil their task of growing the church, they started with the hungry and the widowed and the slaves. When St Francis set about rebuilding the church in the twelfth century, his first move was to go and live with a colony of people with leprosy. When St Vincent…
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Estates Evangelism – A Commitment to Action
Jesus comes to proclaim Good News to the poor (Luke 4, 16). As His disciples, of different denominations but united by our shared desire to listen prayerfully to His call, we commit ourselves afresh though presence, service and proclamation to the ministry of evangelism on our nation’s urban estates by: Strand 1: Championing Estates Ministry …
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Archbishop of Canterbury launches Housing Commission
The housing crisis is to be the subject of a major new Commission launched today by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
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Christmas cards – reflective exercise
Ruth Atkinson at St Michael’s, Bartley Green has provided us with this excellent resource. Collect postcards or the pictures from Christmas Cards and use them as a reflective exercise either with children or adults. Read more here: postcards – reflective exercise postcards – reflective exercise
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House blessing liturgy
Debbie Collins from Holy Cross, Billesley has provided us with this resource House Blessing.
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Estate baptism liturgy – St. Peter’s Church, Balkwell.
Example of tweaked baptism liturgy for Estates from St. Peter’s Church, Balkwell. Full article and download here.
National Estate Churches Network
