Diocesan News
Big Chill calls off Big Sleep
Alabaré said it was “a very difficult decision” to postpone their flagship fund raising event ‘The BIG Sleep’ on Friday night, but concerns about the extreme weather conditions and the safety of those taking part meant that the event had to be called off at the last minute.
No last orders for the local Church Pub
After the success of a makeshift pub over Christmas, the Church of St Boniface is set to serve punters again.
Let’s talk about grief
'While the Victorians were intimate with death and grief and thought sex very much taboo, today the situation is very much reversed and that is why we all need to talk about and understand bereavement.'
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Church bells in Milton Lilbourne that had been silent since before Christmas are ringing out again.
Interacting with Jesus
“I just never thought Jesus and technology could ever go together” was just one of the positive reactions delivered by Wiltshire school children at the highly interactive ‘Life Exhibition’ hosted by St John’s Pewsey.
Singing out
Our Cathedral promotes four talented youngsters to full choristers and awards five more scholarships after their voice trials.
Former Iwerne Valley Churchwarden is new Dorset charity Chair
Former Army Major General John Stokoe CB CBE, a former churchwarden at St Nicholas’ Ashmore, has been appointed as the new chairman of The Dorset Historic Churches Trust (DHCT), the major conservation charity that supports repairs and conservation to historic church buildings in the county.
Finding the right note
Clergy, Lay Worship Leaders, musicians and singers from Dorset came together to explore the challenge of introducing new hymns and songs to Holy Week and Easter.
Torn from Home - remembering the Holocaust
St Thomas’ church in Salisbury City centre was filled on Sunday afternoon (27 January 2019) for a deeply moving multi faith commemoration in words and music for Holocaust Memorial Day.
Sleepsafe Weymouth
As the weather gets even colder, four churches in Weymouth have opened their doors overnight, a week at a time, to accommodate rough sleepers as part of the ‘SleepSafe Weymouth’ night shelter project.
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