Covid
Life In All Its Fullness Conference, 17 Sept 2022
We would love you to join us for the Faith in Later Life Conference! Here’s all the info you need… The conference will be taking place on Zoom on Saturday 17th September 2022, 9am-1pm, and will be all about how we can experience and celebrate life in all its fullness in later life, and how we…
Faith in the Second Half Conference to become an annual event following success of first conference
Faith in Later Life, in partnership with Keswick Ministries, are delighted to announce that, following a successful conference earlier this month, Faith in the Second Half Conference will become an annual event in the Christian calendar between the two ministries. Plans to launch an in-person conference in Keswick focusing on older people and the church’s…
REVIEW: A Great Place to Grow Old by Tina English
In writing this book about how churches can care for their older members, Tina English manages to challenge, inspire and equip her readers whether they are individuals, members of church communities or indeed church leaders. It is a timely book. Older people in our communities have long been side-lined and too often, their needs are…
How can I keep serving?
Imagine going round a stately home and seeing an old-fashioned mangle in the kitchen. Many of us have done that at one time or another and we’ve explained to our children what they were for and we’ve been glad we no longer have to use one! But how often as we get older, do we…
How to run an event in a care home setting
God didn’t create old age by accident. The Bible speaks of older Christians flourishing and bearing fruit in later years. With an ageing population there is both an urgent need and real opportunity to reach older people in residential care with the good news of the Lord Jesus. Older people in residential care often can’t…
Intergenerational Understanding: what books are there for children about older people?
At Faith in Later Life we like to be able to help signpost and suggest resources for other places. One of our church champions asked recently if we knew of any great children’s books that teach children about older age from a Christian perspective? This may be particularly relevant as we think about Christmas presents…
The Christmas gift for people living with dementia
By Louise Morse. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Supermarket shelves are full of all things Christmassy, and Sainsbury’s is handing out its seasonal food order forms. After months of Covid separation friends and families are planning to celebrate a ‘proper’ Christmas, one that includes worshipping together again in ‘real’ church services. And…
Remembering Services: the role of remembering in the journey to faith
As October draws to a close and November begins, many churches enter a season of remembering, with Remembrance Sunday and All Souls Day. Research from the Church of England has shown that these services are often another step on a journey of faith, a valued point of connection with church. Some of those bereaved will…
Do I Still Have Value?
If you hear the phrase, ‘because you’re worth it!’ you probably think immediately of the well-known adverts which have the idea of ‘worth’ as the key message and the reason that you must buy the product. The idea of using ‘worth’ as a selling point is a clever one because it plays on our need…
Facing Loneliness: Spiritual encouragement and practical ideas
I came across this quote recently, ‘Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there’. I wonder how you feel about that? Of course, a lot has been written about loneliness recently, with lockdown, social isolation and shielding meaning that more people have had to face it. It has been recognised as a danger, as shown…