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Today's Prayer: COVENTRY EAST TEAM (10th Mar 2010)

Pray for Archdeacon Ian and all those present at the team meeting to work through the process for employing two new Team Vicars. Pray for God's anointing on this process.

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I'm delighted to welcome you to the website of the Diocese of Coventry. We live in the centre of England and we want to be at the centre of God's purposes for this part of the world. (more ...)

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Dean of Women's Ministry - Bishop's Sermon

09th Mar 2010 | View Full Story | Download

This Saturday a service was held for the collation and installation of the Revd Katrina Scott as Dean of Women's Ministry and Honorary Canon. (more...)

08th Mar 2010 | View Full Story | Download

START THE WEEK is sent to you by Ruth Wagstaffe on behalf of the Department for Parish Development and Evangelism and contains items and information that relate to the work of the department as well as other items of general interest. Any articles or correspondence to do with START THE WEEK should be sent to Ruth Wagstaffe at ruth.wagstaffe@covcofe.org (more...)

End the Week with CME - March 5, 2010

05th Mar 2010 | View Full Story | Download

Some years ago, in the parish where I was vicar, we decided to devote our evening services during Lent to looking at Henri Nouwen's little book, The Return of the Prodigal (Doubleday 1994). Nouwen's book, a sustained meditation on the Rembrandt painting of the same name, is widely-known enough to need no further introduction. But during our six-week pursuit of the themes picked out by Nouwen a strange thing happened. I had managed to get hold of a reproduction of the painting which was pretty much the size of the original which hangs in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Each week as we gathered beneath this image the words we used (whether Henri Nouwen's or our own) began to dry up and we spent more and more time in silence just looking, attentively, at the painting. Nouwen pointed us to some details, like the way the father's right hand and arm seem to have been withered by a stroke, and as we grew to know the painting intimately we saw other details which the kind of brief glance we might normally give it might miss. The prodigal son's almost disintegrated sandals, for instance, reflect the reason why the father in the parable calls for new ones (v.22). (more...)

Youth Work... The Mail Out

04th Mar 2010 | View Full Story | Download

One of the questions I sometimes get asked on my travels around Coventry and Warwickshire is 'Why aren't our Youth Groups growing?' (more...)

Start the Week

01st Mar 2010 | View Full Story | Download

START THE WEEK is sent to you by Ruth Wagstaffe on behalf of the Department for Parish Development and Evangelism and contains items and information that relate to the work of the department as well as other items of general interest. Any articles or correspondence to do with START THE WEEK should be sent to Ruth Wagstaffe at ruth.wagstaffe@covcofe.org (more...)

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