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• Decorate your bus shelter for £105 this Christmas

  
  CHELMSFORD Diocese has joined a Christmas advertising campaign by purchasing advertising space in bus shelters.

• Back to Church Sunday – How was it for you?

  
  SENIOR clergy and staff from Chelmsford Diocese joined the Bishops of Bradwell and Colchester to spell out the warm welcome awaiting those returning to church on Back to Church Sunday when they posed with giant letters in Margaretting declaring that everyone is 'Welcome to Church'.

• Time for a great big feast to aid charities

  
  HEAVENS above! The Essex Air Ambulance will drop in for dinner with the Friends of Essex Churches Trust next February when people across the county will hold parties in aid of both charities.

• ‘The Name high over all’

  
  MANY of us grew up with Charles Wesley’s glorious hymn, ‘Jesus, the Name high over all’, and Jesus Christ continues to be the supreme Saviour and Lord of our lives.

• Vision for baptistry window

  
  ST Edward the Confessor, Romford, held its first week-long summer holiday club for many years and tied its theme with a new baptistry window featuring the story of Noah.

• 'Moderate is not half-hearted'

  
  RICHARD Dawkins has been taken to task by the Continuing Ministerial Education Adviser for the Bradwell Area.

• Miracle plays are taking shape

  
  AFTER a break of 450 years, the miracle plays are to be revived at Chelmsford Cathedral on October 1-3.

• Pilgrims follow in the footsteps of St Cedd

  
  BISHOP Laurie, right, raised roars of laughter when he quipped “There’s a story behind every crook” after being presented with the Bradwell Crook at the opening service of the Bradwell Pilgrimage.

• How I asked Jeeves about Jesus and became a vicar

  
  Mandy Bishop was brought up in a poor community as one of seven children. She was not raised in a church family and did not own her first bible until the age of 32. She left school with no qualifications, but worked her way up to become a senior buyer at Ford. Now she is Curate at St Luke's Moulsham.

• So you think you are welcoming...?

  
  By GILL NICHOL ON the hottest day of the year, 15 church leaders met at The Peterhouse Centre, Walthamstow, to listen to Michael Harvey, developer of the Back To Church Sunday initiative, now in its sixth year.

• Success with CCS

  
  by Philip Ritchie ONE of the highlights of the year in Chelmsford Cathedral is the annual service celebrating the Course in Christian Studies and the training of Pastoral Assistants and Evangelists.

• ‘One’ way is the theme for Bradwell Pilgrimage

  
  by Alice Smith THE Bradwell Pilgrimage is a fantastic opportunity to gather as Christians from across the traditions to walk the path of St Cedd, following in his footsteps and enjoying the fellowship, worship and community which joins us all together in Christ.

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  STEVEN Saxby, Area Dean of Waltham Forest, spent the bank holiday weekend in late May taking part in a four-day, 74-mile pilgrimage from London to Canterbury in aid of the work of The Connection charity which helps homeless people in London.

• 'One' way for themed Bradwell Pilgrimage

  
  AFTER the introduction of the successful new format last year, the Bradwell Pilgrimage will be themed again in 2009.

• Church ladies offering food and friendship

  
  PAULA Newman and Dawn Jessup, both stalwarts of Emmanuel church, Chadwell St Mary, had quite separately been thinking of organising a coffee shop at the church.

• Eastingle builds up Christingle links

  
  CHRIST Church, Billericay, offered something different this Easter with an Eastingle service on Good Friday.

• Who will you invite ‘Back to Church’?

  
  CHURCHGOERS across the Church of England are set personally to invite up to half a million people to services on Back to Church Sunday, September 27, making the event one of the largest co-ordinated evangelism events shared across the Church in recent history.

• ‘One life . . . One Passion’ on streets

  
  SOUTH Woodham Ferrers are doing something different this Easter.

• commission4mission platform launched for Christian artists

  
  A NEW Christian arts organisation called commission4mission was launched at St Alban's Romford in March by the Bishop of Barking, Rt Revd David Hawkins.

• Building for God and building for the Gospel

  
  ON March 4, 1939, the third Bishop of Chelmsford, Rt Revd Henry Wilson, dedicated the new parish church of St Peter for Harold Wood.

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