Coming Soon to a Parish Near You...!
In 2026 the Mission and Children and Youth teams will be visiting a parish near you to worship, inform and explore. With discipleship at the heart of our Growing Bolder and Younger Resource Events, these sessions are designed to encourage clergy and congregations in their weekly worship and outreach, and to enable anyone wanting to nurture and expand their journey in faith. All are welcome to attend the venue closest to their own parish, or to travel further to meet new friends in a different deanery.
There will be food, worship, and three short talks, one of which will reflect a theme of specific local interest. We are an intergenerational church family and would love to see children and young people represented amongst those attending. This is a great opportunity to connect with old friends and new, and to network with other parishes to travel a shared pathway to our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Dates for your diary:
Saturday 17 January 2026 Towcester 10:00-12:00pm
Saturday 24 January 2026 Peterborough
Saturday 07 February 2026 Daventry
Sunday 08 February 2026 Higham Ferrers 2:00-4:00pm
Tuesday 10 February 2026 Kettering
Wednesday 11 February 2026 Grange Park (Northampton)
Saturday 14 February 2026 Stoke Albany
Monday 16 February 2026 Corby 6:30-8:30pm
Saturday 28 February 2026 Oakham
Saturday 07 March 2026 Weston Favell 09:00-11:00am
Friday 06 or 13 March 2026 (TBC) Kings Sutton (Brackley)
Saturday 14 March 2026 Oundle 10:00-12:00pm
Saturday 21 March 2026 Wellingborough 10:30-12:30pm
Saturday 28 March 2026 Spratton
Please contact Louise Skinner for more information prior to the Diocesan events calendar being updated.
Lent Course-Six online sessions on The Beatitudes Tuesday evenings commencing 17 February 2026.
The Beatitudes are a short but profoundly beautiful and influential collection of sayings by Jesus. They sum up His teaching about what it means to live as a child of God's kingdom. Many Christians of previous generations would have known the Beatitudes by heart, but in today's church, this knowledge seems to have fallen out of popular use.
Join Charlie Nobbs, leader of the Diocesan Mission Team, to explore the pattern of blessing, vocation and promise revealed through Jesus' own life and ministry. Important, subversive and revolutionary, the Beatitudes challenge and prepare us for a lifetime of learning more about God's love revealed in Jesus Christ, and what it means to be his disciple.
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Leading your Church into Growth (LyCiG) National Conferences 2026
This highly-regarded residential course is an open seminar with interactive talks, practical exercises, workshops and time and space for personal reflection. There will be opportunities for LyCiG team members to answer questions and to explore the profile of individual churches. This event is designed for clergy and lay leaders from across different denominations who are looking for help in leading their churches into growth.
Best attended with others from your church/benefice, to bond as a leadership team.
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02-04 February 2026 Winter National Conference The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire DE55 1AU
01-03 June 2026 Spring National Conference Highgate House, Creaton, Northampton NN6 8NN
19-21 October 2026 Autunm National Conference The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire DE55 1AU
Contact Charlie Nobbs by email or phone 07532 013599 for more information on bookings and funding assistance.
Lay Pioneer Training Course
A three module course for churches and individuals seeking to improve their outreach to people who are unlikely to attend their local church on Sunday morning.
Contact: Rev. Dave Battison
Church Planting
Individual or team coaching. Contact Revd Canon Charlie Nobbs, an experienced church planter and coach to explore how we can best support you.