Churches Together in England

24/08/2026

More resources now available for 2026 on 13 September. The theme is 'Living Well Together'

🍏 new introduction from Archbishop Angaelos
🍏 new sermon notes
🍏 new hymns and songs list..plus primary and secondary school service outlines and all-age worship

https://cte.org.uk/educationsunday2026/

23/08/2026

Thank you for your prayers

🙏🏿🙏🙏🏽

‘...that they may be one.’ (John 17:21)

Our prayer focus this week turns to our friends at Churches Together in England, Cytun: Eglwysi Ynghyd yng Nghymru / Churches Together in Wales and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

From national advocacy to local community action, our work alongside other traditions helps us share the Gospel more effectively.

Please pray for each as they encourage churches to seek a deepening of their communion with Christ and with one another, and to proclaim the Gospel together by common witness and service.

Our August prayer diary can be found here: https://ow.ly/KyAH50ZCLUb

23/08/2026

The group in Seascale, West Cumbria, attracted more than 500 people to their eclipse-viewing community event.

https://cte.org.uk/seascale-cumbria-solar-eclipse/

Did your local churches hold a similar event? Please share your photos and experiences in the comments

Thank you for sharing Churches Together in Cumbria

22/08/2026

🚨 LAST FEW DAYS TO APPLY - Association of Interchurch Families Operations Manager and Clerk to the Trustees

This is a part-time (10 hours/week), home-based role
FTE salary is £33,922

https://cte.org.uk/vacancies/aif-operations-manager-and-trustee-clerk/

Applications close at 9 am on Friday 28 August

21/08/2026

The World Council of Churches webinar series on the 'Theology of Companionship' starts on 9 September

"...exploring the Theology of Companionship: a way of walking together with mutuality, shared vulnerability, and accountable relationships—even across unequal power."

Details below 👇

👥 WCC launches webinar series on Theology of Companionship

✨The World Council of Churches (WCC) will host a webinar series, starting in September, exploring the Theology of Companionship: a way of walking together with mutuality, shared vulnerability, and accountable relationships—even across unequal power.

The five-part series will show how the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity appears —through a lens of companionship— as a theological orientation and an ecclesial practice.

Participants will be invited to explore companionship as a deep yet understandable journey from theological foundations to practical implementation. The series will move through five themes: foundations, method, ethics, context, and implementation.

The opening session, “Why Companionship Now? Biblical and Ecumenical Foundations,” will be led on 9 September by Prof. Dr Fernando Enns, from the Church Association of Mennonite Congregations in Germany. Subsequent sessions will examine companionship as a pilgrimage practice; the ethical challenges of power and asymmetry; contextual expressions of companionship; and pathways for translating the toolkit into education, formation, and lived church practice.

Learn more and register here: https://oikoumene.org/news/wcc-launches-webinar-series-on-theology-of-companionship

📷Albin Hillert/WCC

21/08/2026

What a fabulous reminder about the centrality of and from the Gather Movement

🙏

Our unity as Christians was so important to God's plan for the world that this was Jesus' final prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Are we making ONENESS a priority, just like Jesus did?

21/08/2026

ICYMI: Read how the Christian Enquiry Agency Christianity.org.uk can help your church answer questions about faith from visitors and new enquirers

See page 17 of the spring edition of the magazine:

https://ctbi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CTBI-Magazine-Edition-13-FINAL.pdf

20/08/2026

Each year, members of the Student Christian Movement go on a Bonhoeffer European Pilgrimage

SCM's Faith and Action Worker, Catherine Whitehouse, shares the 2026 experience

"We travelled from Coventry’s Cathedral, tracing a story of conflict and reconciliation from that bombed and rebuilt city, across Europe to Berlin, which saw the rise of Na**sm, the devastation of war, the segregation of the city, and eventual reunification and remembering..."

https://cte.org.uk/scm-bonhoeffer-european-pilgrimage-2026/

19/08/2026

"I fear for a culture and a Britain that is lowering its standards – not of academic rigour but of basic human decency..."

The Bishop of Croydon and Acting Bishop of Southwark Rt Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett, has written today about the death of Jason Arday

‘I fear for a culture and a Britain that is lowering its standards – not of academic rigour but of basic human...

19/08/2026

ICYMI: Reflections and prayers on the death of Professor Jason Arday from the United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church is deeply saddened by the death of Professor Jason Arday, who was found unresponsive at an address in London yesterday.
The Revd Neil Thorogood, Moderator of the URC General Assembly, says: “Congregations across the URC will be holding the family and friends of Jason Arday in our hearts and prayers ... His all too brief life was an inspiration in so many ways, even as recent events begged so many questions and leave so much to face now."
https://urc.org.uk/urc-calls-for-reflection-following-death-of-jason-arday/