Please note that entries are being transferred to the main news and events pages, with the latest items showing on the front page.
News for Local Ecumenism (aka bulletpoints)
General information is posted here but keep an eye on CT E-news as well. In addition, CEDOs and NEOs should continue to look at the restricted CEDOs' and NEOs' news page for specialist information.
Recent changes to lists of County officers are here. You can download a printable list and click here for a full list of Intermediate Bodies and Ecumenical Officers.
Vacancy for Community Development Worker (Research)
NECCT – North East Christian Churches Together are seeking a Community Development Worker. The post is offered as a 4/5 Month Contract, up to 20 hours per week, to conduct a major piece of research throughout the North East. Click here for more details. (13 August 2010)
Vacancy for County Ecumenical Development Officer
Churches Together in Berkshire is seeking a County Ecumenical Development Officer. The post is for 15 hours per week, worked flexibly from home, on a salary of £8,800 per annum. Click here for more details. (4 August 2010)
New Website for CT in North Thames
Take a look at www.CTNT.org.uk
Information about the Checklist for Safeguarding is now updated and can be read by all visitors to the website under 'Where it all happens'. (28 May 2010)
Milton Keynes Missions Partnership Orientation Day - Come along on Wednesday 23 June and hear about Mission and Ecumenism in our city, includes a presentation by Rev. Dr. Mary Cotes, Ecumenical Moderator. 10.30 am to 3.30 pm at the Christian Foundation, Wolverton, cost £5 including lunch. All welcome, to book a place tel: 01908 311310 or e-mail: missionpartnership@talktalk.net
Small grants (of up to £1,000) available from Churches Together for Families
Churches Together for Families, (CTF) a co-ordinating group of Churches Together in England, wound up earlier this year. The remaining members of CTF agreed to transfer the remaining funds (approx £4000) to a special fund administered by CTE. Former members of CTF and any of their contacts are invited to apply for a small grant (up to £1000) to do a small piece of work at a local level that promotes engagement with families through ecumenical initiatives. A short report and evaluation on the work together with photographic material that could be circulated through CTE's networks to encourage good practice would be requested from anyone who is awarded a grant. If you would like to apply for this funding, please download the application form and guidelines. Applications to be submitted by 1st Sept 2010
12th Annual Nottingham Ecumenical Commission Conference
Catching up with Jesus; A Call to Deeper Unity is the title of this years' conference which is taking place at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick between 18-20 June. It will be led by Diarmuid O'Murchu MSC and the cost to attend is £140. Click on the links to download the flyer, booking form and draft programme or contact Monica Purdue for further information (30 April 2010)
Churches’ Refugee Network Conference
The Churches’ Refugee Network Conference is taking place on Saturday 5 June, 10.30 (registration) - 4.30 at Holy Apostles’ Church, Pimlico, London SW1V 4LY. It promises to be an excellent day with particular focus on the detention of children. Click here for further information and booking form. (27 April 2010)
Intermediate Bodies and LEPs
John Bradley has updated this document in Ecumenical Notes here. (22 April 2010)
An invitation to help launch the MP Accountability Network
The General Election is a great opportunity to ensure that politicians take account of the real issues that affect ordinary people. Launched by Church Action on Poverty, groups who sign up to the MP Accountability Network will pledge to meet regularly with their MP, to establish an ongoing dialogue. Please help to make the Network a success, by encouraging local churches and Churches Together groups in your area to join. Further details and a flyer can be found here (19 April 2010)
Churches Together in Leicestershire
Please note that Vic Allsop has changed his email address to cedo.ctil@fsmail.net (13 April 2010)
The Black Church in the 21st Century
A new book by Joe Aldred and Keno Ogbo is available at a pre-publication discount until June. (8 April 2010)
New Liturgies for LEP's
The Joint Liturgical Group offers worship material for marking the ending of an LEP and a new order for Joint Baptism and Confirmation suitable for LEPs (6 April 2010)
Prayer, Celebration, Pilgrimage and Service
Robin Dixon reflects on these four pillars of ecumenism as he retires at the end of April as CEO for Somerset (1 April 2010)
World Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk
Viva.org is organising this event on 5-6th June 2010 and would like you to draw the attention of your network of churches to it. (24 March 2010)
Birmingham Churches Together has moved
As from 24 February, their new address will be St. George's Community Hub, Great Hampton Row, Newton, Birmingham B19 3JG. Tel: 0121 236 3966. Email and website details remain unchanged. (26 February 2010)
Edinburgh 2010
The international conference to mark the centenary of the World Missionary Conference Edinburgh 1910, a major event in the ecumenical movement, will conclude on Sunday June 6th. Churches all over the world are invited to take part in this celebration through their own local events and services. See this page for more information.
Friends of BibleLands' Inaugural Annual Lecture - Educating for Peace in Israel and Palestine
Tuesday, April 13 th 2010 from 7.45 p.m. to 9.15 p.m. in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The speaker is to be Elias Chacour, Archbishop of Galilee in the Melkite Greek Catholic church. He will be known to many for his books Blood Brothers and We Belong to the Land and the title of his lecture is Educating for Peace in Israel and Palestine. Entrance will be free, but by ticket only. Please contact Heather on 01494 897933 for your tickets. Click here for flier.
Towards unity in mission
A major conference (11-12 October 2010 at Swanwick) to mark the centenary of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference. Anglican, Baptist, Methodist and URC Denominational Ecumenical Officers and Catholic DERs should book via their National Ecumenical Officers. Everyone else, please click here to book.
Changing the Landscape
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to be the keynote speaker at a national event in Lincoln which will focus on the long-term development of fresh expressions of church. He will be joined by Dr Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist Church in Britain. The conference will be of particular value to both fresh expressions practitioners and strategists/senior staff. Click here for further information (28 January 2010)
General Election
CTBI has updated its website and there is now a great deal of information on the page. (21 January 2010)
Together in Christ
... is a series of helpful leaflets produced by the Catholic Committeee for Christian Unity. Download them from this page but be aware that you have to scroll down to find them. (21 January 2010)
2010 Taizé celebrations
This year Taizé has been going for seventy years and it is also five years since Brother Roger's death. It's a good time to organise an ecumenical trip to Taizé -- a place which is ecumenically inspiring for young people especially. (21 January 2010)
CTE: making connections in 2010
Download the leaflet here, tell others about it and ask Edith Steele if you want hard copies (postage free). (14 January 2010)
Forum 2009 - follow-up
Whether or not you attended the Forum last September the follow-up notes make interesing reading. The documents have been presented to both the Directors and the Enabling Group of CTE and are helping shape the work plan of CTE for the next three years. David Cornick's document is particularly interesting and one CEDO has already circulated it throughout his constituency. (13 January 2010)
Devon is looking for a new County Officer
Click here for details and please pass them on to anyone who might be interested. (12 January 2010)
New Dean of Telford
The Revd Andy Smith has been appointed as the new Ecumenical Dean of Telford. He will take up his post at the end of February 2010. A pen-portrait can be downloaded here. (12 January 2010)
Election Time
Gordon Brown must call the next UK general election by 3 June 2010. As candidates, political agents and party activists prepare for a crucial campaign, the Churches are already preparing resources and materials to help Christians contribute to election debates. The Churches are working under the aegis of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) to produce guidelines on holding hustings meetings, information and Christian views on some of the key policy areas, advice on how to deal with extreme political parties and much more. If you would like to register your interest in receiving these resources please click here. (10 January 2010)
Greater Manchester Church Leaders' Unity message
A message is issued each year. for the 2010 letter. (7 January 2010)
Second ecumenical Kirchentag
12-16 May 2010. If you are planning to organise a trip, you need to start now. CEDOs please be aware this is the week before the annual consultation. If you are planning to be absent from the consultation, please tell CTE now so that we can cancel some of the rooms we have already booked. An excellent website is here, with an offer of a free presentation about the Kirchentag. (7 January 2010)
Farewell to Bishop Nathan, CTE President
We will be saying farewell to Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian in February, sooner than expected. After a decade serving the Armenian community in England, His Holiness Karekin II has called Bishop Nathan to a new work of ministry in the Holy See of Etchmiadzin in Armenia. David Cornick, CTE General Secretary, has written to him assuring him of our prayers as he finishes one piece of work and moves on to new service. We will miss him and are grateful for all he has done for us, and we wish him God’s blessing in all that lies ahead. (5 January 2010)
Counter Terrorism Advice for Places of Worship
The Cohesion and Faiths Division at the Department for Communities and Local Government have asked for this document to be disseminated to all places of worship. Be warned, it is long! (5 January 2010)
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