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The workplace chaplaincy group ‘Churches and Industry Group Birmingham-Solihull’ (CIGB) is to run a seven-week training course for Voluntary Workplace Chaplains between September and November. Sessions will take place from 5.00pm to 7.00pm beginning on Monday 20 September and ending on Monday 8 November. The course will teach some of the core skills and strategies … Read more
To mark Windrush Day tomorrow, Tuesday 22 June 2021, the Windrush flag will be raised outside Birmingham City Council House at 9.00am. Among those joining Councillor Muhammad Afzal (Lord Mayor of Birmingham) at the ceremony will be the Most Revd Bernard Longley (Archbishop of Birmingham), the Right Revd David Urquhart (Bishop of Birmingham), Bishop Desmond … Read more
Mark Ryan, pastor of the multi-ethnic Birmingham City Church for the last 12 years, is to leave the city in order to take on the senior leadership responsibility for Kensington Temple in London. The announcement that Mark and his wife Kathy would be relocating was made at BCC’s 9.00am and 11.15am services last Sunday morning, … Read more
‘Manresa Link,’ a Birmingham-based network of people with a passion for sharing the riches of Ignatian spirituality, is offering a Quiet Morning via Zoom to help people engage with the language of lament as we move out of lockdown. The Quiet Morning will take place on Saturday 26 June 2021, from 10.00am to 1.00pm. The … Read more
The ‘Fair Tax Foundation’ sponsors ‘Fair Tax Week,’ which will run from Saturday 5 to Sunday 13 June inclusive, incorporating ‘Tax Justice Sunday’ on 6 June. Fair Tax Week is a recognition of the companies and organisations which promote responsible tax conduct and pay their fair share of corporation tax. Using the hashtag #CelebratingFair, Fair … Read more
Ahead of the international COP26 Climate conference to be held from 1 to 12 November 2021, the ‘Young Christian Climate Network‘ is organising a relay from St Ives (Cornwall) to Glasgow. The walk will begin in St Ives on 11 June (when the G7 Summit is taking place there) and arrive in COP26 conference venue … Read more
‘Transitions UK’ is inviting people to ‘sleep under the stars’ in a field with no tent in order to raise money for two charities. The field is situated at the Salvation Army Citadel in Oldbury and the sleep-out will take place from 6.00pm on Friday 11 until 9.00am on Saturday 12 June. All sponsorship money … Read more
I. Stephanie Boyce, President of the Law Society of England and Wales, will be the speaker at the online ‘City Legal Leaders’ event, which takes place at 8.00am on Friday morning, 28 May. The meeting, which is organised by ChaplaincyPlus, takes place at the end of the week which marks the first anniversary of the … Read more
A number of Birmingham’s senior Church leaders have agreed to designate Sunday 13 June 2021 as ‘Reconciliation Sunday’ in Birmingham. Reconciliation is a key element of Christian faith. Reconciliation restores people and things to the way they were meant to be. The anniversary of the death of George Floyd reminds us that much more needs … Read more
To mark the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd on Tuesday, 25 May, several virtual meetings and events are being organised. Churches Together in England will be publishing prayers for racial justice written by its member-Churches daily from Sunday 23 to Sunday 30 May inclusive. Prayers will be added daily at this WEBPAGE, this … Read more