Open welcome is a toolkit for rural churches called Open Welcome. It has been produced by Germinate with rural churches in mind as an encouragement for them to open their doors to visitors in a way that helps to tell the faith story. If church buildings have the capacity to move people in that way then […] The Shrine of St Alban is a site of national Pilgrimage and is one of the highlights of a visit to St Albans Cathedral and Abbey Church. People have been coming there for over 1700 years. It is used as a place of prayer and stillness by visitors every day. St Alban is Britain’s first […] Tim Tiley Ltd is a family run Christian print and gift wholesalers based in Bristol (U.K.), which supplies many Christian bookshops, conference centres and cathedral and church shops. They have an extensive range of products from prayer cards, bookmarks, folded cards and posters to jewellery, stationery, bible covers, wallets and more… Tim says We could […] The Methodist Church is seeking three volunteers with proven expertise to help support the care and promotion of Methodist archives and heritage. Would you, or do you know of others you would like to encourage to, consider these opportunities to serve the Methodist Church? Please feel free to share this email widely. If you have […] SGM Lifewords have a card designed for visitors to historic churches. In the form of a fold-out card, it offers a meditative walk around the building, using the architecture as a starting point for prayer and reflection. Part of their Historic Churches range, they believe it will work in almost any traditional church building. How do you reconcile the spiritual role of a place of worship with the fact that many visitors will also or only be interested in the architecture or the history of the building? And what can you provide for those visitors who have no idea of the spiritual function of the building and how it […] A presentation including text from a presentation given by Nick Garrard at the 2010 CTA conference. crossingthefloor_nickgarrard Extended notes of a keynote address given by Bishop Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester at The Churches Tourism Association Convention 19-21 November 2012, The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. You can download here KeynoteAddress2012_BishopColin_Dorchester A short guide written by the Revd Eileen McLean, former vicar of Bamburgh and Ellingham with practical and simple suggestions on how to engage visitors in the faith for which the buildings were built for the Newcastle Diocese Tourism Task Group (2006). “All churches are visited by people from outside their regular worshipping congregation. All […] In 2006, the Revd Eileen McLean used a sabbatical to look at how churches were engaging with their visitors and how that might be improved. “Visitors to any church will have many different motives for entering through the door. They will also be a mixture of ages (veering towards the older end of the spectrum) […]Open Welcome – a toolkit for rural churches
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