Licensed Lay Ministers

Resources

• Coronavirus compendium of advice and resources - July 19, 2021 onwards
• Liturgy and church services
  • Confirmation service
  • Common Worship service templates
  • Institution/licensing service templates
  • Leading prayers in church
  • Baptism Preparation materials
  • War remembrance
  • Admission of Sidesmen/women
• For lay ministry
  • Licensed Lay Ministers
  • Pastoral Assistant
  • Communion/chalice assistants
• Talks, articles and sermons
  • Bishop Julian
  • Bishop Philip
  • Bishop Jill
  • Archdeacon Mark
• For clergy
  • COVID19 Advice for clergy including health and wellbeing ARCHIVED, DO NOT REMOVE
  • Important information for clergy
  • Vocations For All Clergy Study Mornings
  • Clergy wellbeing
  • Parish leadership and deployment strategy
  • Office holder documents
  • Ad clerum
  • Ministerial Development Review (MDR)
  • Training grants
  • Vicarage grants
  • Curate training
  • Self-supporting ministry (SSM)
  • Marriage law
  • Retired Clergy
  • Permission to Officiate (PTO)
• Resources for children and young people
  • Resources from the Diocesan Board of Education
• Making Disciples - Resources and information
  • Everyday Faith
  • Retreats and opportunities for prayer in addition to Whalley Abbey
• Communications resources
  • Digital Communications resources including COVID 19
  • Welcome to the communications resource area
  • Important information about our e-bulletins
  • Communicating with people not online
  • Using the 'A Church Near You' website
  • Content for 'The See'; information about cancellation
  • How to advertise in The See; information about closure of the magazine
  • The See: Practical information; details about closure
  • Get your church noticed
  • Effective digital communications
  • Advice on taking good pictures
  • Copyright guidance for images, music and text
  • Template press releases
  • Simple guide to promoting a church event
  • Logos
  • Communications Update - archive page
• Prayer, worship and discipleship
  • Regular Giving
  • Encouragements: Answers to prayer
  • #ThyKingdomCome 2021
  • Blackburn Prayers, including daily email
  • Stewardship programmes and resources
  • Building a Generous Church
  • Generosity and Stewardship
  • Online and Contactless Giving
  • Seasonal Resources
  • Prayer resources
  • Daily prayer App
  • Routes of Faith programme
  • Friday at noon
  • Spiritual Direction
  • Retreats
  • Bible study
  • Music and worship
  • Diocesan World Mission Partners
  • Disability inclusiveness
• Parish Finance
  • Practical advice for treasurers during the pandemic
  • Treasurers' advice
  • Parish Fundraising
  • Stewardship Sermons and Liturgy
  • Parochial Fees 2021
  • Parochial Fees 2020
  • Stewardship and legacies
  • Treasurer Training 2017 resources
  • Fundraising
  • Gift Aid
  • Resourcing the Church in Lancashire - special Diocesan meeting
• Parish administration and governance
  • Archdeacons' Annual (Deanery) Visitations
  • General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
  • PCC secretary or administrator
  • Parochial Church Council
  • Glossary of church terms
  • National Parish resources website
  • Parish finance and mission returns
  • Churchwardens' duties
  • Diocesan Identity Badges
  • Church of England portal
  • Employment of parish staff
  • Churchwardens' training and briefings
  • Welcomers (Sidesmen/women)
  • Pastoral reorganisation
  • Vacancy process
  • Archdeacons' Parish Visitations
• Community transformation
  • Digital innovation for the Bishop’s Harvest Appeal 2020
  • Cinnamon Network
  • Rural churches
  • Acts 435
  • Street Pastors
  • Christians Against Poverty
  • Credit unions
  • Church Action on Poverty
  • World development Group
  • Creation Care and the Environment
  • Renewable energy
  • Shrinking the carbon footprint
  • Emergency response and planning
• Being witnesses (parish mission resources)
  • Unlock: Clergy and LLM Study Mornings
  • Mission preparation resources
  • Enquirers' courses
  • In rural contexts
  • Ministry of Sport
  • Ministry of Sport advice on staying healthy in mind, body and spirit; covid-19
  • Fresh expressions (FxC)
  • Jesus Shaped People (JSP)
  • Mission to new housing developments
  • Open Churches toolkit
  • Diocesan Evangelism Team
  • Leading Your Church in to Growth (LYCiG)
• Church buildings, land and legal matters
  • Churchyard regulations (including application form)
  • Churchyard safety
  • Listed buildings and burial grounds; Public Notices
  • Telecommunications Infrastructure
  • Church Heating
  • Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC)
  • Faculties
  • Quinquennial inspection
  • Health and safety
  • Disability accessability
  • Insurance
  • Churchcare
  • Preventing arson and malicious damage
  • Community use of church buildings
  • Grants and Funding
  • Metal theft
  • Chancel repair liability
• Parish Vision Fund
  • Financial Assistance Group (Parish Vision Fund)