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‘One Body, Many Parts’: Independence or Interdependence?
Disability Awareness Sunday 2026

‘One Body, Many Parts’ (1 Corinthians 12) is the theme of this year’s Disability Awareness Sunday on 27 September 2026. Young autistic Christian author, Triona Brading, is encouraging all churches to ‘save the date’!

Triona is one of the authors of a new book: ‘Belonging without Barriers’, a much-needed resource on disability inclusion as a gospel issue, due out on 20 March 2026. Also, by Triona Brading is ‘In His Image’, a colourful children’s book on what it means to be neurodivergent.

 For Disability Awareness Sunday, Triona is teaming up with charity Through the Roof on a new free resource for churches, due out in April, exploring how all types of people are needed in God’s Church – including those who are disabled or neurodivergent.

 In a video to accompany the resource, Triona will share her story of discovering, aged 21, that she is autistic. She is passionate about sharing the truth that being ‘different’ (in how your body or brain works) does not stop you being part of God’s family or using your gifts to strengthen it. ‘You are the body of Christ. Each one of you is a part of it.’ (1 Cor. 12:27).

What is ‘Interdependence’?

Interdependence is depending on each other and on God to support our needs. The world encourages us to depend on no-one but ourselves. But Jesus encouraged true community and interdependence. The beauty of an interdependent church is the opportunity to bless and serve each other, bringing our unique gifts, skills, experiences,

UCB Prayerline Volunteers

Are you interested in becoming a UCB Prayerline volunteer? Do you have a heart for helping others? Do you feel God is calling you deeper into your prayer life? You can find out more below:

UCB Prayerline Overview- CFDownload

Churches Together in Ross-on-Wye and District

Ross Community Larder is a Churches Together in Ross ministry which is run from St. Mary’s Hall on Tuesday mornings. They are short of the following items: tinned meat, tuna, pasta sauce, sweet corn, and custard. If you can donate items, please leave them in the collection points in Morrisons or Sainsbury’s, or in the box under the landing table.

Alpha

Vennture

Vennture’s Criminal Justice Mentoring Programme supports individuals leaving prison, on probation, or at risk of further involvement in the criminal justice system. Many carry trauma and experience poor mental health, broken relationships and unstable housing. Without consistent support, the offending cycle can quickly repeat.

Last year, we established 30 mentoring relationships across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Our dedicated Link Workers walk alongside individuals, helping secure accommodation, access health services and employment, and, where possible, rebuild family connections.

The outcomes are encouraging. Our reoffending rate was just 3%, compared to a national average of 39%. This steady, trauma-informed work strengthens families and contributes to safer communities across our county. Please pray for those rebuilding their lives, and for our Link Workers. If you would like to support this work, visit: www.vennture.org.uk/donate

Rural Mission and Ministry Course



19-20 May 2026 
Yarnfield Park, Staffordshire. ST15 0NL

10 – 11 November 2026 
St Columba’s House, Woking. GU22 8AB

Designed for those serving in rural contexts, lay and ordained, from all denominations, the course blends practical input with space to rest, reflect, and share with others who understand the joys and challenges of rural ministry. We’ll explore themes like community engagement, communication, farming, vision-setting, and resilience—all grounded in real-life rural experience.

Whether you’re new to rural ministry or many years in, this is a chance to be resourced and refreshed.

Click here to find out more and book

Victim Support

Have you or someone you know been affected by crime?

Victim Support West Mercia can help.

Victim Support is a charity that provides free, independent, and confidential support to anyone affected by crime and traumatic events in England and Wales. It doesn’t matter what the crime is, when it happened, or whether or not it has been reported to the police. 

Our trained team will discuss the impact of crime, provide immediate support and information or help find the right service for longer-term specialist support. 

  • Our Independent Victim Advocates offer dedicated, ongoing support to the most vulnerable victims, helping people to feel safer and find ways to manage after crime. 
  • Specialist support is provided to victims of Modern-Day Slavery or exploitation, working closely with agencies across the system. 
  • Our Road Collision service supports those bereaved or who’ve sustained life changing injuries due to road traffic incidents.
  • We offer victims access to Restorative Justice, giving them a voice and helping to repair harm by enabling communication with those responsible. 
  • We know that people may not be ready to report crime straight away. The Visual Evidence Service records photographs of personal injuries or property damage so that victims can use this in the future. 
  • Our I Am Me! training raises awareness of Hate Crime and its impact. We empower people to recognise, respond to, and challenge hate in all its forms
  • You can learn more about all our services through our informative talks, which can be tailored to suit your needs. We can also attend relevant events to raise awareness of Victim Support West Mercia

To discuss contact Margaret Reilly, Community Engagement and Training Officer, email: margaret.reilly@victimsupport.org.uk or phone 07950 859835

Anyone affected by crime can:

To refer online, find out more, or explore ways you can help us visit the Victim Support website

Rural Missioner’s Guild

Do you want to be part of a community that seeks to further and deepen rural mission? This guild is hosted by Arthur Rank Centre which seeks to encourage and strengthen ecumenical work in rural spaces. Click on Rural Missioner’s Guild to find out more and how you can join below!

Volunteer Opportunity- Revive Community Café

Do you have a few hours to spare each week? Do you want to meet some new people, learn new skills, make a real difference to the community? Do you want to help be ‘the hands and feet of Jesus’?

 Here at Revive Community Cafe, Christian Life Church, we are looking for more volunteers, and we would love you to join our amazing team. We are looking for friendly faces to help with any of the following:

• Write people’s orders and take payments.

 • Make and serve tea, coffee and treats.

 • Cook or prepare sandwiches, toasties etc.

 • Wash up and keep things tidy.

 No experience is needed as full training will be given. A lovely lunch is provided whenever you serve, and we have a great team to work with. All you need is just a welcoming smile, a willingness to learn, and maybe coming alongside someone who needs a hearing ear or a comforting word. We were recently voted winner of the Hereford Times Best Community Project, we want to ensure we can continue serving the community by being a place where people can find warm, welcome and peaceful surroundings.

Where: Revive Cafe at Christian Life Church, 133 Edgar Street, Hereford.

When: flexible shifts, anytime Tuesday to Friday, between 9.30am and 3.00pm

 How: Contact Lesley Marrett at lesleymarrett@aol.com, or drop in to Revive Cafe and have a chat. Tel: 01432271071

Lifewords

Lifewords are a charity that provide biblical resources, in print, online and in-person. Their new resource Lifebringers is a way of collaborating, resourcing, and sharing the Bible through real lives, real contexts, and a shared hope. If you would like to find out more about stocking these resources for your church, please contact herefordshireceo@gmail.com. You can look at the resources at https://www.lifewords.global/.

Church Action on Poverty

Is your church working to address rural poverty? Would you like to connect with others addressing similar issues around the UK?

If so, you can sign up for “connecting and strengthening rural voices on poverty”, an online roundtable event organised by Church Action on Poverty, The Diocese of Truro and Churches Together in Cumbria. The event is on 21 May from 10.30am to 12 noon. Sign up or find out more at strengthening rural voices in poverty.

Racial Justice resources

“Love Your Neighbour

In these resources we explore what it really means to love our neighbour, especially given the current narratives of hostility, fear, suspicion and hatred of the ‘other’, particularly asylum seekers, refugees and anyone who is not British or Irish ‘enough’.

We discuss how the Bible provides a blueprint for a world where everyone belongs; where everyone is loved, valued and affirmed for who they are, and not what they look like or have to offer. And one in which our identity is ultimately to be found in Christ, as brothers and sisters of one ‘race’: the human race. I believe that this message is ‘for such a time as this’ (Esther 4:14). It is one that speaks through the ‘flags’, banners, protests and invective, relaying a message of unity and hope. Just as the greatest commandment speaks about loving God and one another, Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross offers us all the hope of being united with God and with one another.

Let us use Racial Justice Sunday (and other Sundays) to stand together in love, rejecting those words, actions and behaviours that go against Christ’s teachings, and embracing those biblical principles that foment unity, cohesion and engagement.

Richard Reddie, Director of Justice and Inclusion, CTBI

Church Sanctuary Workshop

Join Dr Rev Inderjit Bhogal to look at resources that will further enable ecumenical working amongst inter-church groups on 21 April 2026 at 10am-11.30am.