Covid
August 13th 2024 – Church Champions Network and Prayer Session
August 13th 2024 – Church Champion Networking Event Our Church Champion Networking Events are opportunities for those with a ministry serving older people in their churches or communities to share with and pray for one another. Our next Church Champions Networking Events will be on: Date: 13th August 2024 Time: 1:30pm + 7:30pm Register here for…
18th July 2024 – Evangelism among older People with Ian Knox
SAVE THE DATE and Join us for this event, More details to follow afternoon session – 1.30pm Evening Session – 7.30pm Register here for either of the above sessions
18th June 2024 – Church Champions Network & Prayer Session
Our Church Champion Networking Events are opportunities for those with a ministry serving older people in their churches or communities to share with and pray for one another. Our next Church Champions Networking Events will be on Zoom on: Date: 18th June 2024 Time: 1:30pm + 7:30pm As well as encouraging and praying for one another…
9th May 2024 – Music & Dementia with Fi Costa
Dr Fiona Costa studied at the Royal College of Music. Her musical background, together with a long-held interest in improving the quality of life of older people, has led to several different initiatives over the years. Underpinning them all is a desire to address the loneliness and isolation so often experienced by older people. As…
50 and Fearful?
Well if I haven’t already been in ‘the second half’ for a while now, I’m definitely in it now! To some people, 50 is the proverbial ‘spring chicken’, but for those of us just getting there, like most decade milestone markers, it feels worthy of some reflection. In the Bible, every 50th year was a…
Loneliness and Grief In Older Age
In our first blog from AtaLoss, Executive Director, Jane Woodward shares some helpful thinking about the relationship between loneliness and grief in later life, and how to get good support. Many people choose to live alone and are happy doing so. Human beings are, however, sociable animals and need interaction with others at least some…
The DailyHOPE Telephone Line Closes
We have recently announced that the free DailyHOPE telephone line will be closing after almost four years of ministry. The DailyHOPE telephone line was launched on Sunday 26th April 2020 as a response by the Church of England, Faith in Later Life and Connections at Holy Trinity Church in Claygate to support older people who…
Is your town a good place to grow old?
Rev Peter Crumpler is associate minister at St Paul’s Church, Fleetville, St Albans. In his first blog for Faith in Later Life, Peter reflects on the challenges of later life in a society that’s bringing in technological interventions which often exclude, and even penalise, many older people. He also encourages us to use our voices…
Church Champion Story: Reminiscence
Faith in Later Life Church Champion Jan, leads the Senior Moments work at Emmanuel Church Leftwich in Cheshire. Here she tells us more about how to plan a Reminiscence programme or feature Reminiscence items in your existing seniors work. Just about any subject can be used in a reminiscence programme. For example: make do and…
Church Champion Story: Good News
Faith in Later Life Church Champion Judi, leads the Seniors work at Clevedon Baptist Church in North Somerset. Here she tells us more about a midweek outreach event which the church hosts for seniors, called Good News. When the pandemic allowed people to meet once again, albeit at 2m distance, our church launched an event…