Value of tweets/social media in eulogies
When visiting a family in preparation for a funeral, the deceased's daughter told me about the tweets she had posted and received following her dad's death
Ideas
Blue Christmas idea tried and tested
We followed the idea of Blue Christmas from Mary Hawes' article and liturgy on this website a few years ago
Book for conversations in the second half of life
The Church of England's National Adviser in Adult Education and Lay Development commends ‘Seasons of my Soul'
Blessing a Chapel of Rest
In recent years I have been asked to bless Chapels of Rest for two local independent undertakers
How LED candles can help grieving families
In this video a vicar in Ely Diocese explains how LED candles can be helpful to children for remembering loved ones who have died.
Walking with the coffin
When a funeral has been in church, I invite the whole congregation to follow the coffin out at the end of the service and consciously commit it to God as the deceased goes on his or her final journey.
Baby funeral bedtime story
Baby funerals are always difficult. In the service, I read the baby their last bedtime story from the actual story book
A Candle for Kaylen
The night before a recent funeral for an 8 year old, I organised a Facebook event called ‘A Candle for Kaylen', asking the community to light a candle and put it in a window their home
Praying Together card for parent and baby
This Praying Together card compliments the second part of the booklet
Encourage parents and godparents to choose the Bible verse for baptism
Back in 2015 I attended a conference in Durham Diocese to discuss baptism practices and theology with colleagues from the Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
