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Recognising contribution of women

THIS week Church Chat celebrates the contribution women make to church life.Read

Church Chat with John Nelson: 25/02/09

CHURCHES Together in Formby, Hightown and Altcar has arranged a programme of events for Lent.Read

Celebrate our church magazines

THE church magazine: The Archbishop of Canterbury said, “a good parish magazine is a wonderful resource that places the local church at the heart of the community it serves.Read

Celebrate our church magazines

THE church magazine: The Archbishop of Canterbury said, “a good parish magazine is a wonderful resource that places the local church at the heart of the community it serves.Read

Visits to Rwanda are proving so heart-warming

MARGARET Cooke, editor of St Luke’s parish magazine, was a member of the nine-strong group from St Luke’s, Formby which has just returned from visiting Rwanda...Read

Lack of national effort to bring church unity

NATIONAL and international discussions about church unity have been largely replaced by local action, church leaders say, acknowledging a loss of impetus in national efforts to bring about unity.Read

John Nelson’s Church Chat column can now enjoy his blog on the Formby Times website

FOLLOWERS of John Nelson’s Church Chat column can now enjoy his blog on the Formby Times website.Read

Good luck John, and thanks!

A THANK you to John Russell at Formby’s Pritchard’s Bookshop.Read

Shrinking numbers a concern

A SURVEY of 15,500 people aged over 50 conducted by Saga for ‘The Daily Telegraph’ found that the majority now worship and pray less frequently that they used to.Read

Eight days of unity services

A SERIES of morning services celebrating Christian Unity will take places in churches across Formby next week.Read

Obama will struggle

JAMES Catford, Chief Executive of the Bible Society, offered his predictions for the year ahead in the current issue of the Church of England Newspaper.Read

Church Chat with John Nelson

IT is not very comforting to enter a new year in the knowledge that the Government deficit for 2009/10 will be £1,198bn and Government debt is matched by private debt.Read

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