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• CUF battles recession

  
  OVER the past 21 years, the Church Urban Fund has given more than 5,500 grants to projects supporting people in England's poorest communities.

• CUF launches Lent prayer calendars

  
  CHURCH Urban Fund is launching its Prayers for Lent 2009 calendar and asking people to help make a real change in some of the poorest communities in England

• Putting churches at the heart of rural and urban communities

  
  A CONFERENCE on ‘Buildings: Mission & Alternative Uses’, attended by 80 people, heard that all parishes needed a clear vision for the use of their buildings in their mission and ministry

• Bishop praises work of Church Urban Fund

  
  THE Diocese of Chelmsford raised more than £125,000 for the Church Urban Fund in 2008. Speaking at the closing service for the Church Urban Fund appeal on January 14, the Bishop of Chelmsford, Rt Revd John Gladwin, said that when the Diocese launched this appeal, no one could have known that we would be entering a recession.

• Bishop Laurie faces urban challenges

  
  THE new urban areas are reshaping much of Britain.

• Angels land in Romford to combat culture of fear

  
  THE subtle presence of street pastors helped to combat a culture of fear on Halloween night.

• Regional strategy is weak on faith

  
  THERE is a serious omission from regional planning strategy, a church adviser has warned.

• Economic slowdown hits poorest families

  
  The Right Revd Christopher Morgan Bishop of Colchester (Signed on behalf of Bishop Christopher)

• Stratford's Olympic site is offering new opportunities

  
  By REVD KEVIN WOOLMER Priest-in-Charge of Stratford St Paul's and chaplain to the Olympic and Stratford City construction sites.

• CUF campaign gets off to encouraging start

  
  THE Chelmsford campaign to raise ?500,000 for the Church Urban Fund is gathering pace.

• Bishop welcomes county council move to halt Post Office closures

  
  THE Bishop of Colchester has welcomed the move by Essex County Council to halt the closure of 32 Post Offices across the county. Rt Revd Christopher Morgan, had expressed his dismay at proposals to close Post Offices in Essex and called on the Post Office to recognise itself as a service to the community.

• C of E "Olympic tsar" is licensed at St Paul's

  
  REVD Canon Duncan Green was licensed at St Paul's Cathedral by the Bishop of Chelmsford and the Bishop of London as the Church of England's Olympic Co-ordinator for the 2012 London Games.

• John Spence: Diocese has a sound financial basis on which it can develop

  
  The new chair of the Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance is retired banker, Canon John Spence OBE, deputy chair of Business in the Community and former chief executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland. As well as chairing CDBF, the charitable company that manages the financial affairs of Chelmsford diocese and its assets, he is leading a campaign to raise ?500,000 for the Church Urban Fund from the diocese this year.

• CUF challenges deprivation

  
  THE Church Urban Fund supports faith-based social action projects in their mission to be good news to the poor.

• Visitors to Constable Country's church invited to Bible marathon

  
  CHELMSFORD diocese includes some of the loveliest countryside in Britain. One of our special areas is ‘Constable Country’ which is situated in the picturesque Dedham Vale – a special landscape officially designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

• Church link supports rural communities

  
  THE rural communities of Essex deserve a thriving and sustainable future. And the Rural Community Council of Essex (RCCE) is there to provide them with the skills, resources and expertise necessary to achieve one. RCCE is chaired by Revd Canon John Brown who is the Bishop of Chelmsford's rural officer.

• Plough Sunday tractor blessing

  
  THE Plough Sunday congregation at Burnham-on-Crouch were treated to the real thing thanks to local farmers John and Andrew Sadler who loaned their tractor and plough.

• Mission shaped goes rural

  
  Two new books from Mission Shaped Church.

• Blythe spirit of country

  
  Devotees of Ronald Blythe will devour this sparkling new collection of 60 "Word From Wormingford" columns from the Church Times back page.

• Ex-policeman changes uniforms to join Olympic site hard hats

  
  A police sergeant with 30 years service in the Metropolitan Police has a new beat, serving the people of Stratford in a dual role - as Priest-in-Charge of St Paul's, Stratford and as chaplain to Stratford City construction workers.

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