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The Right Reverend Adam Atkinson, the Bishop of Bradwell has recorded our #ChelmsDioSermon for today titled ‘Fishy business’. Watch here: buff.ly/sNImDaM 🙏

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Over the last month, churches and worshipping communities across Essex and East London celebrated the reason for the season. ✝️ 1/3 #ChelmsDioLife #Advent #Christmas #Epiphanytide 📸: St Luke's Church Primary School, Christchurch Three Mills, St Paul's Woodford Bridge and Saint Clement Leigh.

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#ChelmsDioPrayers Today we pray for 🙏

Following the success of our Eco Church Roadshows last autumn, we will be running two more online roadshows on 16 Feb & 25 March from 6.30 -8pm. Theses roadshows are open to anyone but are especially useful for churches at the beginning of their Eco Church journey. 1/2 📸: Ronan Furuta via Unsplash

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A service will be held at Chelmsford Cathedral at 3.30pm on Sunday 8 February, to celebrate and pray for our estates and low income communities in Chelmsford Diocese. All are welcome to attend and hear stories of how Christ is at work in these neighbourhoods. 1/2

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have published a set of resources for this year's Racial Justice Sunday, which takes place on 8 February. The theme of this year's Racial Justice Sunday is 'Love thy Neighbour'. Find out more and download the resources at buff.ly/po7IWgV

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Join us in #prayer at the beginning of the Week of Christian Unity 2026: Loving God, You bring us together in all our diversity, as family and church. In the face of so many situations across the world, where hope has given way to despair; renew our strength and unify us . 1/3 #LetUsPray

The Revd Canon Philip Ritchie, Area Dean of St Osyth and Colchester Mission & Ministry Adviser, has recorded our #ChelmsDioSermon for today titled ‘Come and See’. Watch here: youtu.be/dqAaPq7uWRg 🙏

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Our Diocesan Agricultural Chaplain, Revd Canon Janet Nicholls shares: "The suicide risk amongst the farming community is particularly acute at this time of year. "A free-of-charge suicide awareness day is being offered for those in rural areas on Wednesday 28 January 2026 in Saffron Walden." 1/3

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St Leonard's Church in Lexden had a wonderful time at their Messy Nativity service during Advent. "Many thanks to our Toddler group family for taking the parts of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus." #ChelmsDioLife #JoyOfChristmas #MessyChurch #ChurchCommunity

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A series of Church Buildings Support Conversation Roadshows have taken place across the diocese over the autumn and winter. On Saturday 24 January the final Roadshow in this series will run from 10am -1pm at St Mary's in Saffron Walden. 1/2

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This autumn we will begin a conversation in Chelmsford Diocese about how we can be an enduring missional presence in Essex and East London in the times and context in which God has placed us. 1/2

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Please join us in #prayer: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation: in your goodness you have given us this seed to sow. In it we perceive the promise of life, the wonders of your creative love. 1/3 #PloughSunday #LetUsPray 📸: bearfotos via FreePik

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The Revd Canon Janet Nicholls, our Diocesan Rural Adviser and Agricultural Chaplain, has recorded our #ChelmsDioSermon for today, Plough Sunday. Watch here: buff.ly/QHmi6X7 🙏

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#ChelmsDioPrayers Today we pray for 🙏

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#ChelmsDioPrayers Today we pray for 🙏

#ChelmsDioPrayers Today we pray for 🙏

The Venerable Jonathan Croucher, the Archdeacon of Chelmsford, has recorded our #ChelmsDioSermon for today, titled ‘Arise Shine a Light Has come!’ Watch here: buff.ly/o2PDMDc 🙏

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"Christian Hope has nothing to do with whether a successful outcome can be predicted but everything to do with the conviction of things not seen and the determination to travel well in times of uncertainty, for our #Hope is in the one who renews all things." 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 1/2

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Heavenly Father, As we bid farewell to the past year, we thank you for your faithfulness through every season. Thank you for the blessings, the lessons, and your presence in both our joys and challenges. 1/3 #HappyNewYear #LetUsPray

The Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Bishop of Chelmsford, has shared a New Year message for 2026. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ #HappyNewYear #Hope #Faith

#CycleOfPrayer #ChelmsDioPrayers Please pray for: St Michael's in Thorpe-le-Soken. Clergy: Vacancy (V). Thorpe-le-Soken Rolph School: Nicola Emrich (HT). All Saints Walton-le-Soken. Clergy: Peter Edwards (PIC). 1/3 #ChelmsDio_COP

#CycleOfPrayer #ChelmsDioPrayers Please pray for: St Michael's Kirby-Le-Soken, All Saints Great Holland. Clergy: Mark Holdaway (R). St Peter & St Paul's Church in St Osyth w St Mary's Great Bentley. Clergy: Sharon Guest (V). 1/2 #ChelmsDio_COP

All are warmly invited to the Diocesan Plough Sunday service at Thaxted Parish Church on Sunday 11 January at 11am. 1/2 #Agriculture #Farming #Community #Faith

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026 will run from 18 - 25 January. This year the prayers and reflections have been prepared by the faithful of the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with their brothers and sisters of the Armenian Catholic and Evangelical Churches. 1/2

#CycleOfPrayer #ChelmsDioPrayers Please pray for: St John's Great Clacton. Clergy: Mark Mulryne (V). Great Clacton CofE Junior School: Tara Finney (HT). St Bartholomew's in Holland-on-Sea. Clergy: Vacancy (PIC), David Lower (AC). 1/2 #ChelmsDio_COP

#CycleOfPrayer #ChelmsDioPrayers Please pray for: The staff of the Cathedral, the events to be held there and for all those who will visit during the coming year. Give thanks, too, for all who generously give of their time as volunteers. 1/2 #ChelmsDio_COP

The Right Reverend Roger Morris, the Bishop of Colchester, has recorded our #ChelmsDioSermon for today, the first Sunday of Christmas. Watch here: buff.ly/ExEwUFk 🙏

#CycleOfPrayer #ChelmsDioPrayers Please pray for: The Diocese of Saskatoon – The Anglican Church of Canada. #ChelmsDio_COP

#CycleOfPrayer #ChelmsDioPrayers Please pray for: St Paul's Clacton. Clergy: David Lower (V). St Mary's Frinton. Clergy: Funmilayo Vaughan (R). LLM: Maggie Wilson. The Diocese of Saskatchewan – The Anglican Church of Canada. #ChelmsDio_COP

"Sometimes we need encouragement to hear again the message of the angels. "There is joy to be found in the stable scene in Bethlehem. There is joy in the angelic chorus that lifts us, as it did the shepherds, from crouching fear to the glory of the Highest Heaven." 1/2 #JoyOfChristmas #Hope

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given ... he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace! -- Isaiah 9:6 (NIV). . . . 📸: St Mary’s Church Great Dunmow