1 Secker Street 

Waterloo 

London 

SE1 8UF 

01462 422502 

Suggestions

 

 

Practical suggestions for Churches Together groups

Churches Together groups can help churches to:

 1.  Understand each other

  • Invite representatives of other churches to attend ordinary services
  • Invite members of other churches to ongoing denominational fellowship groups
  • Hold Council meetings on different approaches to common issues, including divisive ones such as intercommunion

 

  1. Worship and pray together
  • Use the opportunity of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity for united worship and daily prayer
  • Arrange a prayer weekend
  • Organise prayer walks going from church to church
  • Have a prayer pilgrimage to a place of prayer (eg monastery, shrine)
  • Mark the Women’s World Day of Prayer

 

  1. Learn together
  • Hold study groups for Lent and at other times of the year
  • Train preachers, youth leaders, women’s group leaders etc together
  • Keep business to a minimum at meetings and use the time to address a theme
  • Compile a common list of speakers for women’s groups

 

  1. Evangelise together
  • Hold a day of witness in your town/neighbourhood
  • Have a walk of witness on Good Friday
  • Have a day of celebration at Pentecost
  • Arrange carol-singing in a pub
  • Publish a list of local churches cor circulation in your area and putting in libraries
  • Have a churches together website
  • Have a day of celebration at Pentecost
  1. Serve the locality together
  • Be aware of local needs and work together to meet them eg homeless, unemployed, those facing redundancy, recently bereaved
  • Meet the spiritual needs of people in residential homes
  • Set up a Street Pastor scheme
  • Support prison chaplaincy and hospital chaplaincy

 

  1. Relate to the local authority together
  • Support ecumenical borough deans
  • Invite local authority officials to meetings

 

  1. Address justice, peace and environmental issues together
  • Become eco-congregations together
  • Support your local town twinning or form a new international link
  • Organise Christian Aid Week

 

  1. Enjoy life together
  • Have a Shrove Tuesday pancake evening before the Lent groups
  • Have a joint choir festival
  • Have a barn dance
  • Go on an outing to somewhere not specially holy!

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