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Churches Together in England latest news

6th December 2021 / Deborah Walker / News

View the latest Churches Together in England Newsletter

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Stepwise – article for church newsletters

16th November 2021 / Development Team Admin / News, Walking the Way

Stepwise is making a difference!       Read more about Stepwise in this article which can also be downloaded and used in church newsletters.

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Guildford URC win Gold Award in Guildford in Bloom 2021

8th November 2021 / Deborah Walker / Good News Story, News

Thanks to the green-fingers and hard work of Guildford URC member Ian Hitchcock the Church was delighted to win the Gold Award in the Best Front Garden category, in Guildford in Bloom 2021.    

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Good News Story – and the winners are…

8th November 2021 / Deborah Walker / Good News Story, News

And the winners are… Collectively Camberley, the Business Improvement District (BID) for Camberley Town Centre, was established in 2011. In 2021 95% of those businesses in the area voted to extend the BID for another 5 years. The BID, organises many of the town centre events, including the car show, Farmers Markets, Christmas Lights and […]

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Praise from the Heart – Psalm resources

8th November 2021 / Deborah Walker / News, Prayer

For many years, Revd. Duncan Wilson (now a retired minister in Banbury) has been using the lectionary’s choice of Psalms each week as a call or introduction to worship. He has paraphrased each psalm as a responsive call to worship and is now offering them as a resource for churches and worship leaders to use […]

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Advent, Easter, Pentecost, Psalms, Resources

Gosport School Pastors

1st November 2021 / Development Team Admin / Good News Story, News

  Gosport School Pastors, represented by myself and Andy Williams, were awarded the Community Impact Award at the Hampshire Education Awards celebration held in October 2021. This is a huge honour and one which we feel extremely privileged to have received. We were delighted to have been nominated by members of the Senior Management Team […]

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October 2021 Synod Minutes available now

22nd October 2021 / Deborah Walker / News, Synod Meetings

Download the Minutes from the October meeting of Synod:

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Good News Story – Green Living Group – the sequel!

18th October 2021 / Deborah Walker / Good News Story, News

You may remember the virtual Green Living Group based at Avenue St Andrew’s URC in Southampton which reported in May 2020 that we were using the Dorset Green Living Guide (greenliving.sustainabledorset.org) to look at our individual carbon footprints relating to food, energy, transport, waste, water and community in our lives. At that stage we thought […]

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Good News Story – Community Accessible AED

13th October 2021 / Deborah Walker / Good News Story, News

In June I was approached by one of our local councillors asking if he could fund a community accessible defibrillator outside High Cross Church. Having spoken to a few people and checked locations, we agreed it would be a great project and the ideal location would be outside the café doors so it was accessible […]

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Synod Papers available now – October 2021

24th September 2021 / Deborah Walker / News, Synod Meetings

Synod meets in person on Saturday 9th October  High Cross Church Knoll Road, Camberley, GU15 3SY   The Synod Papers are available to download below in either pdf or Word format   Download: Legacies of Slavery Consultation Overview Document Synod Apology Slip Find High Cross on the map Poster swap information We have looked at […]

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