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 […]
Tag: COVID-19
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 […]
Sound of Your Love – Connecting Family
Michelle Brock is the co-creator of a project called Sound of Your Love; a service that brings families together when they can’t be face-to-face in this pandemic. Today, even if your loved ones aren’t suffering from coronavirus, it’s next to impossible to see them in hospitals; restrictions due to health risks are high, so she […]
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 […]
Dial-a-Mass
Dial-a-Mass is a service that allows people with no Internet to listen to Catholic Mass. The Diocese of Middlesbrough decided to add a phone line when they discovered that many people didn’t have access to the live streams due to a lack of WiFi or smartphones. When people call the line, they will hear a […]
Podcast – How has Mass attendance been affected?
Church Pulse has a recent podcast that talks about some of the statistics that can be gathered from the effects of the coronavirus, for example attendance at Mass has gone up, but giving has gone down. Wile this research covers the US, many churches who were surveyed are still positive about their futures and are […]
Burning Ships and Preppers
Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church, Illinois, runs a blog, and this particular post urges their parish to prepare. Fr. Matt Bozovsky states that he felt compelled to speak about the future that the Spirit wanted us to consider ‘prepping’ for; he talks about St Paul’s plea to be ready for preparation, that the time […]
The Cooking Priest in India
A priest in India named Father Warner D’Souza has a YouTube channel with over 6,800 subscribers, and his video ‘Food for the soul‘ became even more popular, gaining over 9,300 views. His passion for food began when he was a child, and being a Priest has not stopped him from sharing his love for the […]
Alpha and Sycamore
Sycamore is a new resource to help discuss, share and explore ideas, and aims to help people start to consider their faith, using videos to provide insight into the importance of Mass and the questions they may have. Alpha is similar; a video series to help beginners explore Christianity and their faith. However, they’re intended […]