Web Links
Children and Young People's Work
www.assemblies.org.uk
Primary and secondary school assemblies for teachers and others leading worship in schools.
www.barnabasinschools.org.uk
The BRF site to resource work with young people in schools with an emphasis on RE, PSHE, life issues and seasonal ideas.
www.barnabasinchurches.org.uk
www.cowo.culham.ac.uk
Resources for small groups, larger assemblies and topical resources linked to things in the news.
www.messychurch.org.uk
Fresh ideas for building a Christ-centred community.
www.sermons4kids.com
Sermon ideas for use in worship which includes children and young people based on the lectionary. Also other resources to use alongside the sermon. It is free tosubscribe and receive a sermon every week via email.
Communication
www.cartoonchurch.com
www.churchtimes.co.uk
www.commstraining.cofe.anglican.org
Information about communication training
www.parishpump.co.uk
"The essential website for church magazine editors."
Environment
www.ecocongregation.org
www.christian-ecology.org.uk
CEL helps members to understand and relate environmental issues to their faith.
www.climatedurham.org
A local site wanting to enable and encourage local people to be involved with climate change.
www.shrinkingthefootprint.cofe.anglican.org/
The Church of England's national environmental campaign
Faith and Worship
An Invitation to Prayer
uk.alpha.org/
www.e-mmaus.org
www.cyberhymnal.org
features over 10,000 hymns
www.ccli.co.uk/main.cfm
Christian Copyright Licensing International to help churches comply with the copyright laws.
www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/
www.freshexpressions.org.uk
Prayers
from the Church of England website
The Royal School of Church Music in and around Durham
www.textweek.com
Christian Organisations
www.affirmingcatholicism.org.uk
www.archbishopofcanterbury.org
www.archbishopofyork.org
www.childrenssociety.org.uk
www.chbookshop.co.uk
Church House Bookship. The official bookshop of the Church of England
www.ctbi.org.uk
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland website
www.cofe.anglican.org
The official Church of England website
www.cpas.org.uk
Church Pastoral Aid Society
www.cuf.org.uk
Church Urban Fund
www.dfw.org.uk/
An adoption agency in the north east of England
www.missiontoseafarers.org
www.themothersunion.org
www.northumbrianindustrialmission.org/
www.resourcescentreonline.co.uk/
North east religious resources centres based in Durham and Newcastle
www.oremus.org
Daily prayer, hymns, liturgy, prayer resources
www.rejesus.co.uk
Explores His life, character, teachings and followers, how He has been quoted and misquoted, written about, worshipped and argued over.
www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk
www.uspg.org.uk
DAC and Building
click here to go to the DAC page
Grants
www.sonsoftheclergy.org.uk
Sons of the clergy and Friends of the Clergy now operate very much as one organisation using the same application form.
Retreat and other Residential Houses
www.shepherdsdene.co.uk/
The Retreat House for the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle.
www.sneatoncastle.co.uk
Venue for day or residential events in Whitby
www.stantonyspriory.co.uk/
St Anthony's Priory, an ecumenical spirituality centre in Durham city
www.ushaw.ac.uk
Vocation and Ministry
www.callwaiting.org.uk
You and your vocation
www.churcharmy.org.uk
www.readers.cofe.anglican.org
World Development
www.christianaid.org.uk
www.tearfund.org/
www.traidcraft.co.uk
www.wateraid.org/uk