Barna have released some insights into the trends of church attendance during COVID-19. While there is nothing particularly surprising, it is useful to put some statistics against our current observations and experience: https://www.barna.com/research/new-sunday-morning-part-2/ A couple of highlights I would want to draw out – around a third of respondents (32%) had not streamed any church […]
Category: COVID-19
How to Share the Gospel, even during Lockdown!
I came across this short video from Roger Carswell who seems to have endless ideas for sharing the Gospel and the lockdown certainly hasn’t stopped him! Worth watching simply just to share his enthusiasm for sharing the Gospel. His main theme is that we can still write and phone during this time and thank people […]
When we return, what will you focus on?
Many countries are either planning for the reopening of churches or have already done so, and having to put various plans into action to make sure our places of prayer remain safe for people to come to. It’s really easy to forget, among the discussions about hand sanitizer, appropriate distances and revising the churches capacity, […]
Prayer Support during Lockdown
The Diocese of Portsmouth are offering prayer support, a prayer request line for key workers and spiritual listening for anyone who needs it. For those who want prayer support or spiritual listening, they just complete a short form to say when they are available for a call, and Key Workers are directing to an even […]
Family Resources
Living out the ‘Domestic Church’ The reality of the corona virus for many families is that there is an increased focus on the parents to provide faith formation and opportunities to experience faith at home, since we don’t have the usual routines, such as going to weekly Mass or daily prayer in school. The Diocese […]
Opportunities in Lockdown
Daniel Wang, in his recent post “Engaging Seekers and Reaching the Unchurched“, talks about the opportunities that have arisen during this lockdown and encourages others to do the same. As Fr James shared during this week’s webinar, some parishes are rising to the current crisis and have done extraordinary things, shifting their ministries and approaches […]
The Search
An Alternative to Alpha A new resource has recently been launched, called “The Search“. This 7-part video series has a similar format to Alpha but is created in a Catholic context. It has been produced by the Augustine Institute, which already provides a wide range of resources and tools for people who are looking to […]
Lockdown Conversations
Another great idea for supporting others and reaching out in a very natural way, a priest in New Zealand is offering people the opportunity to have a conversation with a priest. Although he would do this normally in his ministry, the current situation means that he has fewer opportunities to interact in person, so he […]
Hope- Pete Greig
Pete Greig talks about how ‘Something is stirring in the UK.’ In this post, Greig says that prays are being answered; ones that had long been forgotten, and ones that are truly needed in this time of isolation. He speaks of a prayer surge, where, according to research commissioned by Tearfund and released in May […]