News & Stories


The Dog Days of Summer Services

11th July 2024

A recent Sunday morning service at St Peter’s in Horninghold was attended by nine enthusiastic, four-legged friends as the church held its second annual Pets & Prosecco service, celebrating mankind’s special relationship with their furry family members.

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Creation is God’s Gift to Us to Enjoy and Steward

14th June 2024

Decked out in rainbow colours to celebrate God’s wonderful creation, St Mary in Charnwood Church looked quite the part for its community Eco Fair held recently.

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Bringing People Together on the Way of the Cross

26th March 2024

Four parishes have found a creative way of inviting members of their communities and children at their local schools to engage with the events of Holy Week by setting up a Way of the Cross across their churchyards with artwork by local children and audio reflections by their ministers.

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New Beginnings in the Fenn Lanes Benefice

22nd March 2024

Revd Emily Sharman was welcomed into St Margaret of Antioch’s Church during a joyful service of induction, and commitment to shared ministry in the rural benefice of the Fenn Lanes.

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'A New Life For Our Community Church'

15th December 2023

It has been a big year for St Michael & All Angels Church in Ravenstone, celebrating its 700th birthday and successfully securing a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant.

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What to sing now we no longer plough the fields and scatter?

1st September 2023

Malcolm, a member of one of our worshipping communities who works with the Farming Community Network has provided an updated first verse to the much-loved hymn We Plough the Fields and Scatter, which is more in line with modern agricultural practices.

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Historic moment as the first diocesan Minster Community is launched

2nd May 2023

A celebratory service of inauguration was held for the newly forming Launde Minster Community


Plough Sunday celebrated in the rural farming community of Oaks in Charnwood

16th January 2023

St James the Greater Church has strong links to its local farming community and recently celebrated Plough Sunday with a service of thanksgiving


Bishop Martyn’s Leicestershire Lent Pilgrimage of Prayer

7th November 2022

Walking around the diocese at weekends in the run up to Easter 2023, he will visit many of the churches he has not yet been able to and encourage people in prayer.


Connecting the community and church in Oaks in Charnwood

28th October 2022

The Rural Coffee Connect mobile barista van rolled into Oaks in Charnwood recently, to join forces with the community and St James the Greater Church, to help tackle rural isolation and loneliness.

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