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Dear Guest,
Lent is just round the corner – the season of the year when many Christian people set aside time each week to explore or reflect on their faith.
The Church of England’s Lent theme for this year is ‘Living Hope’. Each week there is a theme to helps us consider the challenges and opportunities of living with hope in an uncertain world.
Equip Hub’s 2025 Lent Series will pick up the themes of ‘Living Hope’ in a 45 minute, Thursday evening Zoom gathering. Each Thursday you are invited to join the discussion, exploring how hope in God informs and inspires your daily life. The weekly sessions will be hosted by Anna Naish and Rob Harrison, who will be joined – each week – by a guest contributor from the Coventry Diocesan staff.
For more details, click the link below.
Rob Harrison
Director of Ministry & Leadership
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Equip Hub Lent Series 2025 – Living Hope
This Lent, Equip Hub’s Lent Series will explore the same themes as the Church of England’s Lent Reflections – ‘Living Hope’. Our series of 45 minute Zoom gatherings, will complement the resources produced by the National Church, including a booklet and daily reflections.
The ‘Living Hope’ weekly zoom gathering, hosted by Anna Naish and Rob Harrison, will provide opportunity to reflect together with others on the day to day challenges and benefits of living in hope.
These will take place from 8.00pm to 8.45pm, on Thursdays from 13th March, and include contributions from a different guest each week.
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Real faith in a real life – Learning from King David
All human life has its ups and downs; a faithful life, lived in service to God, is no exception. We know more about David’s life than about any other character in the Bible – a life that was flawed in many ways yet deeply devoted to God. There is so much we can learn from King David.
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Christian Worship through the Ages aims to explore how Christian worship has developed and been experienced through nearly two thousand years of history. From post-Apostolic Roman Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the Reformation and into the Modern era, this course allows us to explore and experience together the riches of our Christian worship legacy.
Over 5 weeks, we will explore how Christians in different eras have responded to the call to praise God and proclaim the Gospel in their own contexts. Key questions we will tackle are, how did development in theological thinking and political history shape Christian worship? What might we learn about our own worship from those who have gone before? What might the worship of the future look like in a technological age?
Wednesdays 5th March – 2nd April 2025, 7pm – 9pm, St. George’s, Rugby.
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Amazing GRACE Learning Community
This is a learning community committed to taking intentional action – in whatever way is appropriate to each member’s circumstances – to promote race equality in our personal and ministerial contexts.
The vision given in Revelation 7:9 is of people of every nation, tribe, people and language worshipping God together, yet this vision is far from fulfilled in the life of the church today. However, the sin of racism can prevent the full and equal flourishing of God’s children and barriers exist for people of colour. It is the responsibility of the whole people of God to tackle this injustice.
4 Tuesday evenings. starting 4th March, 7-9:15pm at St. Paul’s Church, Foleshill.
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Upcoming Courses & Events
Click the titles of any of the below courses and events to read more about it.
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We are all shaped by the time we are born through the experiences, attitudes and expectations of that time. This can mean we can sometimes find it difficult to understand or connect with people who are older or younger than us.
While ages and stages is the focus of these sessions age is not the only thing that bring similarity and difference. We will encourage people to bring their own perspectives & experiences and the knowledge of other peoples to add context and variety to these broader themes.
Mondays 3rd March – 31st March, 7pm – 9pm, St. James, Fletchamstead.
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It is helpfully said that children and young people are not the church of tomorrow; they are part of the church of today. Whether or not our church currently has children or young people attending regularly, it is important that we ensure that our worship is welcoming and engaging for them in their own right.
The ways that families with children and young people engage with church has changed over recent decades. This session will consider ways to enable children and young people to be actively involved in our current worship, and simple ways to adapt our current worship to be more engaging young Christians
Thursday 13th March, 2pm – 4.30pm, Holy Trinity, Attleborough
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We all want to engage with our communities, yet is this harder than it sounds? During this workshop we will consider several questions: What do we mean by community engagement? Who and where are our communities? Do we have more than one community? Where do we start…who are our volunteers… do we have the skills…do they even want us! And crucially where do we get the money from?
In this session, led by Linda MacDermott, we will each bring and share our knowledge, thoughts, questions and experience.
Tuesday 8th April, 2pm – 4.30pm, St Peter’s, Wellesbourne.
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Preaching isn’t just about talking to people but helping them to include themselves in the message.
This session will explore techniques and ideas for actively engaging the congregation in a sermon, and consider the sermon as a learning experience rather than a teaching opportunity.
Wednesday 9th April, 7pm – 9pm, Holy Trinity church, Leamington Spa.
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Faith is about our whole lives not just about Sunday mornings at church or Tuesday nights at Messy church. Yet, parents, grandparents and other carers do not always feel confident in talking about faith, praying or worshipping together.
This session will help you think about your ministry space (church, schools, community etc) and how you can help families to take faith home, to share with one another and to grow in confidence. There may be big things to consider, but often small actions and changes can have a big impact!
Monday 28th April, 7pm – 9pm, St Stephens’s Church, Canley.
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Who comes to mind when you think of women in the Bible? Is it Ruth, Sarah, Rahab, perhaps an unnamed servant or someone else?
There are so many women within the Old Testament; some are part of a long narrative, a couple have a book named after them, while others remain nameless despite their significant roles.
Over five weeks we will delve into the lives of some of these women, where they come in the biblical narrative, how their experiences & actions shaped the Bible and how they impact our own perspectives.
5 Wednesday sessions starting 30th April, 9:30am – 11am on Zoom.
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Boost your knowledge about climate crisis and find out how you can help to care for God’s creation. Be inspired and informed as we work together to reach net zero carbon. Join in via an excellent new course created by the Church of England’s Environment Programme team.
Multiple sessions available.
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All of our upcoming courses and events can been seen on our calendar.
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Worshipping God |
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Making new disciples |
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Transforming communities |
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Worshipping God |
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Making new disciples |
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Transforming communities |
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