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Out of sight, out of mind?

Canon Sandra Millar, Head of Welcome and Life Events

From June through to August 2020 we should have seen the peak wedding and christening months. On Saturdays and ...

Celebrating weddings that are to come

The Revd Sandra Millar, Head of CofE Life Events

A couple of years ago I was with a church who had built up a very significant wedding ministry. ...

Electronic registration of marriages: situation as at September 2019

The Revd Canon Sandra Millar, Head of Life Events
Over the summer there has been a lot of information circulating about the implications of the plans for the electronic ...

A Life Events Prayer for the Summer

The Revd Sandra Millar, Head of Life Events
Use this prayer any time you wish over the summer, for yourself and all your colleagues, who will be meeting ...

Relatable church, relatable Jesus

The Revd Sandra Millar, Head of Life Events
I feel as if I am late to the party with the word ‘relatable’. I’ve only just discovered how widely ...

Being mindful of step-children

Name withheld
  When a good friend got engaged, her fiancé’s five-year-old son turned and asked his father, “Will you still be my ...

Introducing The Life Events Diary

The Life Events Diary (LED) is custom-built online software with the potential to radically streamline administration for baptisms, weddings, banns ...

A Christmas Prayer for You

From the Life Events Team
During the busy time over the Christmas season, Life Events continue. We offer this prayer, signed by Penelope Beschizza, for ...

Exploring Faith Journeys

Life Events Team
Benita Hewitt has been involved in research for 40 years and following a profound experience in her 40s which led ...

Ready-made marriage prep

Duncan MacInnes, from Marriage Prep In-a-day
The latest estimate of the cost of relationship breakdown in the UK is £51bn per annum according to The Relationships ...

Building bridges: What does follow up look like? 

The Revd Sandra Millar, Head of Life Events
A quick look through my inbox reveals all the organisations that keep in touch with me – and some send ...

The law on waiving parochial fees

The Revd Tiffer Robinson
In 2013 the Church of England brought in new legislation regarding parochial fees, and it's probably fair to say that ...

Life Events Ministry and GDPR

A Life Event service is a wonderful opportunity to show the warmth of God’s love, and to welcome those who ...

Generation Y still hope to walk down the aisle

Life events make special memories

The Revd Canon Sandra Millar, Head of Church of England Life Events
I recently read a report which explored the psychology of memory and decision making:  it seems we make future decisions ...

Marriage and divorce on the rise at 65 and over

Life Events Team
The Office for National Statistics released figures in July 2017 on marriage trends in the UK. It makes interesting reading, read ...

Wedding talk

The Revd Canon Sandra Millar
Recently, I took my first family wedding when my ‘niece-by-marriage’ married in St. Bartholomew’s, Nympsfield, a beautiful listed church in Gloucestershire. It was ...

Stepping into the unknown

The Revd Canon Sandra Millar, Head of Life Events
Last week I was being royally treated by a diocese somewhere in England. Due to the pressure of time between ...

Warm contacts, wider contacts

The Revd Dr Sandra Millar, Head of Projects & Developments, Archbishops' Council
Every week the Church of England is involved with around 3000 funerals, 2000 baptisms of children under 12 and 1000 ...

Supporting couples financially

Tom Newbold, Centre for Theology & Community
The average cost of a wedding in the UK is somewhere between £17,000 and £24,000. Estimates differ depending on the ...

We’ve been hiding our light under a bushel for too long

Supporting deaf couples and guests with a BSL interpreter

Rev Canon Gill Behenna, the Church of England National Deaf Ministry Adviser
British Sign Language is Britain’s fourth indigenous language, used by Deaf and hearing members of the Deaf community. Deaf people who ...