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Living in Love and Faith - January 2023
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The College of Bishops and the House of Bishops met on Tuesday 17 January to discern a way forward for the Church of England on questions of identity, sexuality and marriage.
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St Paul’s Leamington celebrates one year of its wellbeing café
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The Renew Wellbeing café at St Paul’s Church in Leamington Spa celebrated its first birthday on the 17th January this year. The café is safe space open to everyone where it is ok not to be ok. To mark the anniversary, we chatted to the team at St Paul’s who run the café.
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Bishop's Certificate in Preaching
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Bishop’s Certificates in specific aspects of ministry are designed to resource and recognise lay ministers across the diocese.

Each ministry pathway includes theological learning, practical training and shared formation for people who have been formally recommended for training by their incumbent and PCC.

The pathways are circular, and can be joined at any stage. Bishop’s Certificates are awarded when an individual has completed the programme set out by their incumbent and the Director of Ministry.

Bishop’s Certificate pathways are conceived as initial training which takes place alongside the practical experience of Christian ministry.

For more information, including a video of Bishop Christopher introducing this certificate, click the link below.
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Racial Justice Sunday
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A complete liturgy for a Service of Holy Communion and Service of Word on Racial Justice Sunday – 12 February 2023
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Diocesan News
February Prayer Diary
The Revd Clive Hicks, Healthy Churches Development Enabler, has produced the February Prayer Diary.

The February Prayer Diary takes a new format.

Clive is interested to take your suggestions on sources, favourite quotes on prayer, as well as thoughts on the new structure/content.

Click here to view the prayer diary.
Church Army Discovery Events
The Church Army are hosting a series of Discovery Events throughout the year. Go and find out what they do, their vision and values, about working for them or about joining the Mission Community.  The in-person days in Sheffield are especially for anyone considering training with them to be a Commissioned Church Army Evangelist.  The evenings are usually a good introduction.

To book a place please click here or contact Andrew Payne, in the Community & Vocations Team.
Come and Sing Candlemas Eucharist
The Royal School of Church Music invites you to Come and Sing the Candlemas Eucharist on Saturday, February 4th, at St. Mary’s Church, Tysoe CV35 0SG from 4pm until 7pm.

Whether you are a choir or an individual who just loves singing, you are invited to this beautiful church, to sing together and share the Candlemas Eucharist. The afternoon will be led by Julian Harris, Musical Director and Conductor of the St. James’ Singers and Banbury Choral Society. Rehearsal from 4pm, then all are welcome to join us for the service at 6pm.

There is a fee of £7.50 including loan of music for the day and refreshments. If you are coming, please could you tell Patsy Howes: p.howes41@btinternet.com 07747 046374.
Train with tastelife
Mental health issues continue to rampage through our culture and young people especially are turning to eating disorders as a coping mechanism. In 2022, Christian-based charity tastelife ran 29 courses helping over 300 people affected by eating disorders but in 2023 they want to see that doubled.

To help more people, they need more leaders to run more courses so they are launching ‘12 months of Bumper Bursaries’. This means you could now train to become a leader from as little as £59; to apply for a bursary, please email marie.dove@tastelifeuk.org.

For more information about being a tastelife leader and what the training involves click here or if you want to register for the accredited training, click here.
Red Hill Christian Centre

65 acres of tranquil fields, woods & lake near Stratford-on-Avon. Including New Camping Facilities, Brand new purpose-built showers which are ideal for church away days / weekends. There are also meeting spaces for day conferences; seminars; retreats / quiet days as well as beautiful, refurbished oak-beamed bed & breakfast or self-catered en-suite rooms.Please enquire: 01789 731427 or email: info@red–hill.org  For more information, click here.
Diocesan Vacancies
Generous Giving Adviser
35 hours per week, Monday to Friday (some evening & weekend work required)
£32,960 per annum plus 8.5% Employer Pension Contributions
Contractual Location is the Diocesan Offices in Coventry

Giving is integral to every church. Whether this is time, money, spiritual gifts, practical skills or other resources. Being generous with all that God has given us is Biblical, is a key Spiritual practice and is an essential factor in growing healthy churches. As a diocese we are seeking to promote a culture of generosity to further the good work already happening in our churches.

We are looking for someone who is able to encourage others in the important relationship between generous giving and mission and can help churches across the Diocese to develop and demonstrate a culture of generosity and how to align their resources with the Diocese’s vision and mission of their church.

Closing date for applicants:  Thursday 9th February 2023. For more information, click here.
Vicar, St Catherine's Church, Stoke Aldermoor with New Century Park
The parish of St Catherine’s is in Coventry East Deanery, an exciting and varied place with a very multi-cultural mix of people living and worshipping in our churches.  We have the fastest growing population of any deanery in the diocese and we are the most densely populated and most deprived deanery in the diocese.  This brings its own set of challenges but also opportunities as can be seen in the varied way each church is seeking to build the kingdom in their parish.

We are looking for a vicar who is excited about the challenges of being part of one of the most deprived areas of the diocese and able to seek opportunities to build the kingdom in the parish.

For more information, click here.
External Vacancies
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Helping hands Charity Shop - Saturday Supervisor
We are looking for a friendly and personable Saturday Supervisor to run our charity shop in Leamington Spa on Saturdays only. The Lighthouse charity shop acts a mini community hub; customers not only come into the shop to grab a bargain, but we also have a good number of Helping Hands clients coming to access food bank vouchers or who need signposting to Helping Hands services or other community support initiatives.

We are looking for someone with shop and till experience, able to manage shop volunteers and who can demonstrate they can be supportive and compassionate with people with additional or complex needs.

£10.42 per hour, 7.5 hours per week with some potential for occasional overtime in the week. Please email operations@helpinghandscharity.org.uk for an application form and job description.
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