NEWS
Save the date! An event coming up next month, all about the Church and social cohesion!
The Free Churches Group is hosting an event, with the Liverpool & District Federal Council, on the important theme of social cohesion. This conference moves our vital work on, in light of the Theos report on The Church and Social Cohesion (you can read the report HERE).
Our forthcoming event is entitled:
Connecting Communities, Serving People
It will be held in Liverpool Town Hall on 30th September: 1.30-3.30 P.M.
Further details on how to register will be available soon, but for now, save the date!
'ORGAN DONATION WEEK' COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER
A couple of years ago Free Churches Group, working with the Blood Transfusion and Organ donation services, facilitated a one day conference with our member churches and groups. This was a useful event to help us to raise the profile and importance of these services, particularly for our churches who have members from Black, Asian and other ethnic communities. We would like to continue to encourage more blood and organ donors from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to come forward to meet the needs of patients from across our communities. Certain conditions, such as sickle cell and thalassaemia, are more prevalent within these communities.
We would like to share with you news of Organ Donation Week which is coming up in September.
This is an awareness raising week from 20th - 26th September with a theme this year of: ‘Leave Them Certain’. This campaign aims to encourage people to talk to their loved ones about organ donation through highlighting that families are always involved before organ donation goes ahead.
Find out further information about this year’s campaign and how you, your churches and your families can get involved in the discussions about this vital issue.
(cover photo courtesy of DESIGNECOLOGIST at Unsplash)
Helping faith communities welcome people leaving prison
Helping faith communities welcome people leaving prison - that is at the heart of the mission and values of the work of The Welcome Directory.
This Friday, we are invited by Prison Fellowship to pray for the vital work of The Welcome Directory as it seeks to support churches and other faith communities offer a warm welcome to men and women leaving prison.
“Loving God, we pray for the work of The Welcome Directory seeking to help faith communities become places where people who leave prison can find acceptance.”
Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing inspiring features about the vital work of The Welcome Directory, to help us to learn more about their work and find out how our church and community can get involved.
The logo of The Welcome Directory
living wisely...
I wonder if you feel that you live wisely? I know from time to time, I ask myself whether I do live as wisely as I might, and in such moments of doubt or indecision, I humbly seek God’s wisdom in prayer, for my life.
Living wisely is the theme of the Bible study which the Prison Fellowship are hosting this week in prisons across England and Wales. Will you join with me to this Saturday to pray for these vital and life changing Bible studies….?
“Living God, we ask you to draw close to those in prison today as they consider their actions and strive to make wise choices.
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. ”
Prison Fellowship: their mission is to show Christ’s love to prisoners
by coming alongside them and supporting them.
(cover photo courtesy of Priscilla Du Preez at Unsplash)
(Sara, FCG media support officer)
Why not host an afternoon tea for Imago Dei Prison Ministry?
Why not host an Afternoon Tea!?
Our friends at Imago Dei (ID) Prison Ministry are inviting us all to host an afternoon tea on or around 14th August. Supporters of Imago Dei Prison Ministry are joining together to host Afternoon Teas across the country for their friends and family to raise awareness and funds for ID Grace House UK. For further information and how to register your event and get your bunting and fundraising pack, click: Will you join us?
Grace House UK is a project of ID Prison Ministry, set up specifically to offer housing with life skills training and support for women leaving prison in the South East who may otherwise be homeless and need further resettlement provision.
(cover photo courtesy of Soo Chung at Unsplash)