Ideas
| Online Christmas theatre Bread & Starlight Advent resource There’s a beautiful, hope-filled film made specially for this Christmas by Christian theatre company LAMPS Collective |  |
| The Journey to Bethlehem – Covid safe idea for Christmas We’re organising Advent window trails across the town, revealing one window per trail every day during Advent | |
| ‘Hamper’ of ideas from the Church of England/University of York The Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture (University of York) offered these ideas for coping with Christmas 2020 services, but they can be used any time. | |
| Pyjama midnight mass The Midnight Mass is a beautiful and profound experience for a lot of people | |
| Remembering people who’ve died: what works, and why? Ministry around bereavement and remembering is a hugely important part of church life | |
| Church’s ‘Funeral Arranger of the Year’ Award The Life Events team heard about a lovely idea from St Mary’s church in Sunbury-on Thames | |
| Remembering Tree At St Barnabas, Dulwich we wanted people to be able to record the names of people they love but no longer see and to pray for themselves and everyone who was grieving | |
| How ‘Light a candle’ helped a dispersed family This vicar from Ely explains how the ‘Light a candle‘ feature on the Church of England Funerals website helped people all over the world during a funeral in the UK. | |
| Blue Christmas Many bereaved people find Christmas unbearably difficult | |
| Helping Funeral Directors to plan Each year (about November) as I plan next year’s diary, I have to tell the Rural Dean and the Archdeacon (if going overseas) when I will be out of the parish on retreat, CME, and holiday | |
