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Past Event: Retiring Well Event – with Helen Calder
In March 2024 we welcomed Helen Calder to lead our online Church Champion events about the importance of retiring well, and how we might take steps to do just that. Retirement is a time of significant change in our lives, similar to major decisions about further education, career, marriage or starting a family. Yet the…
13th February 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 February 2024 Time: 1:30pm + 7:30pm Where: Zoom Evening session: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88531070905?pwd=YTl0bUE3QjdvTFdEek93emVJTnROUT09 Meeting ID: 885…
Past Event – Watch Now! Rural Seniors Ministry with Tim Wilson
Are you in a church in a rural part of the UK? If you are, you must think about how to reach those in later life. According to government statistics, one in four people living in a rural community are over 65. In our January 2024 event, Tim Wilson helped us to consider how churches…
Past Event – Watch Now! Scams and Fraud: What can the Church do? Keith Brown
For some of us, scam calls have become a regular nuisance we have to deal with, but for many, falling victim to these calls and emails can lead to life-altering consequences. At our November Faith in Later Life Event, we welcomed Keith Brown to speak to us about Scams and Fraud, and about how we…
Championing the Cause of Older PeopleÂ
This article was originally published on the Baptists Together website. Reposted with permission. Alex Drew, Former Operations Manager at Webnet has moved on to lead the work of Faith in Later Life, a Christian charity which exists to inspire and equip Christians to reach, serve and empower older people in every community, through the local…
Watch Now! – Hymns We Love with Pippa Cramer
“They have sung these hymns again and again but don’t necessarily understand the gospel they contain.” — Rico Tice In his glowing endorsement of Pippa and Steve Cramer’s resource, Hymns We Love, Rico Tice reminds us that whilst many older people in our nation know and even love hymns, many don’t know the gospel they…
Taking Communication for Granted
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak with Dave Piper from TWR-UK about the loss of communication in the UK, as well as how we as churches should seek to communicate well. As the crux of the issue were questions that had risen off the back of the recent Royal Mail Union strikes,…
Dependency, Death, and Dying
Towards the end of his life, my great-grandfather began to lose his smile. His wife, my great-grandmother, was receiving palliative care in a nursing home and he’d felt her absence acutely. Sadly, for the first time in decades they were apart and as a result he had to be reassured every day that she hadn’t…
New Lead Officer Appointed at Faith in Later Life
Press Release Faith in Later Life has announced the appointment of a new Lead Officer, Alexandra Drew to take forward it’s work to inspire and equip Christians to reach, serve and empower older people in every community, through the local Church. Alexandra (known as Alex) joins Faith in Later Life from The West of England…
Past Event: Designed to be Dependent with John Wyatt
In July 2023 we welcomed Prof. John Wyatt—author of Dying Well and the Final Lap—to delve into the implications of the fact that we were designed by God to be inherently reliant on others. From our earliest moments in this world, where we are wholly dependent on the love and care of those around us,…