Rural Mission Sunday 2017
Everybody Welcome!
Thank you for registering to participate in Rural Mission Sunday 2017!
Here you’ll find all the resources you need to celebrate on 16 July.
Printed copies of these resources are now available to order from CPO
Downloads
CLICK HERE: Main material
Ideas and resources for a service to mark Rural Mission Sunday in your church and community, including a prayer from the Archbishop of Canterbury, plus practical hints and tips on how you could make everybody welcome!
CLICK HERE: Children’s material
An extensive resource containing ideas and suggestions of ways in which you might engage children with themes of hospitality and welcome.
This resource has been compiled for the Arthur Rank Centre by Nicola Grieves. Some materials included in this resources are taken from rootsontheweb.com and are copyright © ROOTS for Churches Ltd 2002-2017. Reproduced with permission.
CLICK HERE: Supplementary material
Additional prayers and an discussion starter based on JRR Tolkein’s The Hobbit!
Promotional material
Poster and invitation templates for you to use to promote your event
We will be posting Rural Mission Sunday updates on our dedicate Facebook and Twitter pages so like and follow to stay in touch!
A prayer for Rural Mission Sunday
Creator God,
through whose word all things came into being, and by whose
power all is sustained: your creation renews inspires awe and
worship, strengthens us with hope and calls to us to wonder
at your mystery.
We pray that, filled with the Spirit who leads us to Christ, you
would open our eyes to see your gifts and open our hearts
that we may share them with others.
May the churches across our countryside be centres of
community, places of welcome and human warmth, and
channels of the hospitable love offered us in Jesus.
We pray this prayer in His holy name.
Amen.
Rt Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
