Home - Faith and Worship

Here you can find guidance and signposts to resources that can help you as leaders or families to develop meaningful opportunities for household worship.

The material has been written with input from the Diocesan Board of Education advisory team and the Ministry for Mission Resource Officer.

Christingle!

The Children’s Society Flexible Christingle/Doing Christingle differently - How will you be Christingling this year? - Hosted by Nikki Pawsey, Director of Supporter Communities & Groups, The Children’s Society.

Presented by Revd Bryony Taylor, Rector of Barlborough and Clowne, Diocese of Derby and adviser on our Virtual Christingle guide,  Revd Matt Tarling, Vicar of St Paul’s Spennymoor, Diocese of Durham, Victoria Bush, primary school teacher and author of our Christingle resources for schools, Tracey Messenger, Church Engagement Manager (Resources) at The Children’s Society and Nicola Gampell, Senior Innovation Officer, The Children’s Society.

Christingle has always been about bringing people together and embracing hope during the festive season, and in 2020, the spreading of hope feels especially important as we Pray, Serve and Grow through The Diocese of Salisbury and beyond!

The Children’s Society have created lots of new resources to help schools (and parishes) hold a safe and memorable celebration. These include:

• The link to the 1 minute Christingle promotional video
• The link to the 1.5minute link to encourage donations during a virtual service Christingle video
• Flexible Christingle/Doing Christingle differently - Vimeo link (watch from 24.35mins to 32mins to hear teacher Victoria talk about Christingle in schools – see the resources she has created here -  Primary School Christingle Planning document and Collective Worship Planning document  and from 47mins her ideas of how to manage fundraising in school)
• All Christingle resources available, including paper Christingle bags and donation envelopes
• Registration and fundraising page where your event can register for a QR code for online donations
• Suitable songs/hymns for an online Christingle Service

Finally the Church of England is running a weekly church service and a Christingle national service  will be held on 13^th December from 9am which you can encourage families to watch/you can follow up the following week as it will be available to be streamed from the Children’s Society page and CofE page.

RESOURCES UPDATE!

The link to the Christingle work of The Children’s Society video here
Muddy Christingle here
Further resource files here
Special Christingle 2020 message from The Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury here

If you would like your children to have a recorded or live talk from The Children’s Society, please contact Gill Ford to chat about your requirements.  telephone: 07539 445 415 or email: gill.ford@childrenssociety.org.uk

Useful resources and links:

Home - Faith and Worship Diocesan guidance - click here 

#Faithathome Church of England homepage - click here

Faith and Worship at Home Resources - click here

Senior Leader Monthly Briefing - Archive here - contains links to worship websites

Thought for the week - Archive here - weekly reflective think-piece

Thankyou Governors - Archive here - information for foundation governors 

For further advice or to share resources, please contact:

Ministry for Mission (M4M) Resource Officer Steve Inglis LDMT 01722 411944 steve.inglis@salisbury.anglican.org  On social media: