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Take part in the Living in Love and Faith course
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Living in Love and Faith is a five-part course is designed to help people learn and reflect together about questions of identity, sexuality, relationships and marriage.

The Living in Love and Faith project is propelled by the Church’s desire to learn how relationships, marriage and sexuality fit within the bigger picture of a humanity that is liberated by Jesus Christ and infused by the Spirit to reflect the image of God in which we are created.

Perspectives on gender, identity and sexuality are evolving and the Church wants to explore these matters by studying what the Bible, theology, history and the social and biological sciences have to say.
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Welcome to our new monthly feature, where we ask a member of the wider Diocesan team to share a hymn, song, or piece of music that has been a blessing to them and has helped them encounter the presence of God.

This month’s song has been suggested by Simone who works in the Diocesan HR team;

“My recent favourite is ‘Confidence’ by Sanctus Real. It has given me strength to know I can face the issues I currently have, with God behind me, beside me and in front of me. It reminds me of Romans 8:37, Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
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The Equip Hub
The Online Learning Platform from the Diocese of Coventry. Once you've signed up, this email will contain personalised recommendations for topics you are interested in exploring.
 
 
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Needs-based Evangelism
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What would it look like for the gathered and sent church to seriously accept the call of Jesus ‘to go and make disciples’? The word ‘evangelism’ evokes different responses some positive, some negative. In this module we will show that evangelism is most natural response we can have to our call, and look at how we can find our unique voice.

Over the sessions, we will explore the Mission of God, being relevant to our context, four dimensional listening and implicit and explicit evangelism.

This course will take place on Thursday Evenings, 19:00-21:30, 3 March – 31 March at St John’s, Westwood.

The course leader will be Gareth Fitzpatrick.
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Church Leader’s Lunch at St. Mark’s Academy
If you would like to host an intern (or interns) in your church, St. Marks academy can support you by offering a package of teaching and formation for your interns, as well as help and encouragement for you in supervising their placements.

To find out more, please join them for lunch on 24th March 2022, from 1pm-2pm. The event will include a short presentation about becoming a partner church, as well as an opportunity for questions, and will be limited to an hour.

Please RSVP to rachel.atkinson@stmarkscoventry.org by March 1st, including details of any dietary requirements. For more information, click here. 
Increasing Subsistence Farming Harvests In Tanzania
The Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika DCT is based in semi-arid Tanzania and runs 6 schools, 3 hospitals and agricultural training programmes in predominantly bush areas. Poor harvests remain a constant famine challenge in the region and impact 50% of the 1 million population. 68% of the farmers in the DCT region live under the UN poverty income level of US $2 per day.

They have just completed a pilot programme in 17 subsistence farming villages and results over a 3 year period have been very impressive. Harvest yields have doubled and they have eradicated 30% of harvest loss. They now want to roll out the programme to 200 villages covering 1 million people and critically empower Women who bear the brunt of farming work, by raising their status through increased harvest yields.

For more information, click here. If this is of interest please get in touch with Andrew Mayfield at andrewmayfield@live.co.uk

 
Lent Resource - Children in the Shadows
The Clewer Initiative have just launched a new resource for Lent called Children in the Shadows. The resource can be used by individuals, small groups or whole churches. It is divided up into five weeks and includes film clips from frontline experts, case studies, a short Bible reflection and prayer written by Bishop Alastair Redfern and lots of information about modern slavery and how it impacts children in the UK and beyond.

It is designed as a Lent resource but could easily be used beyond Lent by any groups keen to learn more about how to respond to modern slavery in their communities.

For more information, click here.
Queen's Platinum Jubilee
On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth.

To celebrate this unprecedented anniversary, there will be a four day UK bank holiday weekend from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June.

We have set up a page on the diocesan website where we will be sharing what churches are doing to mark the occasion. Please let us know your plans by emailing anna.laycock@coventry.anglican.org
Good Friday concert at Coventry Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral Chorus will be performing Chilcott: St John Passion
Finzi: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice at Coventry Cathedral at 6pm on Friday 15th April.

Tickets are £15 / £22 with under 18s & students ½ price.

For tickets:

Tel: 0844 477 1000
www.coventrycathedralchorus.com
tickets@coventrycathedralchorus.com
Diocesan Vacancies
Diocesan Counsellor
The Diocese of Coventry are looking to appoint a self employed Counsellor to:

Provide a confidential Counselling service for Licensed Clergy, their Civil Partners/Spouses and any dependent children;
Provide a counselling service for staff employed by the Diocesan Board of Finance (DBF);
Provide an initial assessment with those Clients who have been referred to you, keeping in mind other services on offer by Spiritual Directors, the Mental Health Services and the Diocesan Deliverance Team;
Provide up to 10 Counselling sessions with the Client, which will be paid for by the DBF;
Provide additional ACC or BACP accredited Psychotherapists/Counsellors to whom you can refer clients when necessary eg for couple counselling or counselling for children;
Attend a meeting of the Clergy Wellbeing group once a year.

For more information, click here.
Community Engagement Lead St Andrew's Church, Rugby
An exciting opportunity at a challenging time for a skilled and energetic individual with previous experience in the sector to develop and maintain the Town Church’s role as a community resource for all. The vacancy results from the promotion of the previous post-holder to key environmental roles in the Coventry City of Culture team. 21 hours per week flexible £15000 pa.

For an informal conversation about the post please contact office@rugbychurch.org.uk The job description and person specification can be found on their website by clicking here.