Miscellaneous Papers
These are links to resources that it is hard to classify anywhere else! Some will be purely seasonal and others for special occasions.
- Hosting a Post Office
Introduction to Guidelines and Best Practice for the Provision of a Hosted Post Office Service in Churches and Chapels (Word doc)
Guidelines and Best Practice for the Provision of a Hosted Post Office Service in Churches and Chapels (pdf)
- Ecumenical resources
21 Ideas for a richer ecumenical life
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2008
Anglican-Methodist Local Covenant Partnerships
Covenanting for Mission – a Checklist
A draft Constitution for a Local Covenant Partnership
A draft Covenant Declaration
Local Covenant Partnerships - Advice for Parishes
- Bishop of
London’s Address to the first Derek Hole Lecture
Leicester University.
- Model
Rules for Deanery Synods
As at April 2007.
- Mission Shaped Church
Update
Downloadable Powerpoint file.
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Ecclesiastical Offices Terms of Service
Downloadable Powerpoint file.
- Helping Parents Teach the Bible
John Piper was interviewed at this year¹s Evangelical Ministry Assembly and told delegates that the main responsibility for the spiritual education of children lies with their parents, rather than children's or youth leaders.
- Making a complaint against a member of the clergy
under the Clergy Discipline Measure
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Frances Ashton's Charity
for the relief of need of clergy and widows of clergy
Clergy form download
Widow/widower form download -
Exiles and Exotic Intruders: Christians in Britain
University of Leicester Chaplaincy Lecture 2006 delivered by Professor Werner Ustorf, Professor of Mission (.pdf file) -
Common Worship Baptism Service in French
this has been supplied by Rev'd John Plant (Team Rector: Bosworth & Sheepy Team Group) following a baptism at which half of the family were from the other side of the Channel! -
The Harrowing of Hell
poem and pictures of the Passion Play which took place in Leicester on Good Friday 2003 -
Service of Burial for Retained Organs
Rev'd Alan Burgess offers this after having to put together a service for the burial of retained organs eight years after the funeral of a still-born child. This was put together after consultation with chaplains at Alder Hey and other hospitals.
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Ethical Investment - is it worth it?
report from the Ethical Investment Advisory Group 2004/5 (pdf file)