Over in Barrow-upon-Soar, Holy Trinity Church has launched its Christmas Tree Festival online, featuring 44 different trees thoughtfully designed, crafted, dressed-up and computer generated, by members of the village community.
Work is still underway in our diocese as part of the nationwide review of safeguarding cases in the Church of England
The summary of proceedings at the Synod held by Zoom on 21 November 2020
Eleven churches from the diocese have benefitted from Historic England grants as part of the government's Culture Recovery Fund initiative.
Canon Dr Peter Hooper will start his role for the Diocese in Europe in February
Sue is a keen walker and lifelong lover of nature. She worships in the Ironstone benefice – a rural group of churches near Melton – and was called by God to create a thriving woodland near her home as a legacy for the planet
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With the world looking very different this year it can be difficult to plan for Advent and Christmas. So we've gathered together some resources you may find helpful.
Like many of the churches around the diocese St Thomas a Becket, Skeffington, marked Remembrance Sunday with a single church bell toll marking the two minutes silence. Residents stood on the front porches and driveways to remember. But the church looked different – they had had a surprise ‘yarn bomb' decorating the outside of the church in knitted poppies.
Our links with overseas dioceses have been established over many years and we have tried to develop a mutually supportive partnership - these were featured in the
A group of churches across a range of Christian denominations and traditions in Hinckley have come together to share what they have with those ‘truly suffering and in need' this Christmas. AlterNativity is a way of gifting charities both close to home and across the world, providing much needed resources to the poor and vulnerable, and has been an annual initiative for the Hinckley and District Churches Together for the last 15 years.
