The Life Events Diary (LED) is custom-built online software with the potential to radically streamline administration for baptisms, weddings, banns and funerals, and helps churches build lasting relationships with new contacts through life events, boosting mission.
I recently read a report which explored the psychology of memory and decision making: it seems we make future decisions based on past experiences. It is really important that we have a bank of positive memories to draw on when we are faced with the next opportunity to choose again.
A quick look through my inbox reveals all the organisations that keep in touch with me - and some send me things in the post as well. National Trust, Tate Britain, Gloucester Cathedral, Trailfinders, plus all the useful things like insurance and utilities.
Every week the Church of England is involved with around 3000 funerals, 2000 baptisms of children under 12 and 1000 weddings. Each of these services attracts a congregation - we don't actually know how many people we meet as the numbers are not recorded anywhere. (We all count congregations a
Use this prayer any time you wish over the summer, for yourself and all your colleagues, who will be meeting new people through Life Events all summer long... Â <em>Lord God,
A Life Event service is a wonderful opportunity to show the warmth of God's love, and to welcome those who may not otherwise find themselves walking through the church doors. By carefully considering your approach to data protection, you can take advantage of these opportunities while ensuring safe...
When a good friend got engaged, her fiance's five-year-old son turned and asked his father, "Will you still be my dad when you get married? Where will you live? Will that be my home?" This provided his father and future stepmother with a mile-wide opportunity to reassure him and...
The latest estimate of the cost of relationship breakdown in the UK is 51bn per annum according to The Relationships Foundation. That is in excess of the current total UK defence spending figure!
British Sign Language is Britain's fourth indigenous language, used by Deaf and hearing members of the Deaf community.
Recently, I took my first family wedding when my 'niece-by-marriage' married in St. Bartholomew's, Nympsfield, a beautiful listed church in Gloucestershire. It was the first in the next generation, so we were all just a little bit excited with hats, cameras and tissues at the ready.
