Stories

Working together with nature

Snelson Fund awardee Rebecca Boardman, reflects on her time as a member of the community at the Asian Rural Institute in Japan.

Church growth, vibrant ecumenical relationships

Baptist Minister, David Evans, shares how local prayer walks were the start of closer ecumenical working with neighbouring Plymouth churches.

“Get planting…”

CTE President Rev Canon Helen Cameron visited the Methodist Church's award-winning garden at the Tatton Flower Show.

Spotlight on: Archbishop Dr Costakis Evangelou MBE, President of the Ixthus Church Council

CTE's Min Shermara Fletcher-Hoyte went to meet this inspiring Pentecostal leader at his boxing gym in north London.

Ecumenism is the way forward

Snelson Fund awardee Jack Woodruff, reflects on his time at the 2024 conference of the European branches of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Pentecost – praise, procession and psalms

The Ecumenical Officer for the Liverpool Archdiocese, Ultan Russell, shares the story of the pilgrimage down the city's Hope Street in 2024.

Reflections on ecumenism from Norfolk

Laurette Burton, the Catholic Denominational Ecumenical Officer for Norfolk and Waveney, reflects on eight years in the role as she steps down.

Praying over Withernsea

Secretary of Withernsea Churches Together, Josie Briggs shares how members lifted the people of their town in prayer.

‘Remaining present and engaged in a fragile world’

Recipient of The Bill Snelson Young Ecumenists Fund, Sarah Crane, reflects on her time in the Czech Republic at a European healthcare chaplaincy conference.

Spotlight on: Rev David Whyte, District Superintendent of the Wesleyan Holiness Church

The first in an occasional series where CTE's Min Shermara Fletcher-Hoyte talks with inspiring church leaders from our Pentecostal and Charismatic national Member Churches.

Rothwell’s ecumenical welcome

Members of the Northamptonshire town's Methodist church invited neighbours from two recently closed churches to worship and work alongside them.

Communion, cakes and a holy cacophony of Christian voices

Sam Rigby, a recipient of a grant from The Bill Snelson Young Ecumenists Fund, shares highlights from his visit to the World Council of Churches and the Hautecombe Discipleship School.