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Local Ecumenical Partnerships (LEPs) have been places of experiment: they are now formally recognised arrangements with agreed principles and patterns of management recognised by the partner Churches. Below you will find books and papers about LEPs - in both the...
Sponsoring Bodies and do we have to have one?
When Local Ecumenical Partnerships (LEPs) were first established (as Areas of Ecumenical Experiment), they each had a sponsoring body consisting of representatives of all the Churches in their area, not just of the participating denominations. The thinking then was that...
Registering Buildings for Same Sex Marriage
This page contains guidance for those Local Ecumenical Partnerships who wish to consider registering to conduct Same Sex Marriage. Of the four main denominations most often involved as partners in single congregation LEPs, three (Baptist, Methodist and the United Reformed...
Who can join my local Churches Together group?
The Christian church in England is continually changing and developing. When new congregations come along, you may wish to invite them to join your Churches Together group – or the request to join may come from them. What's your best way forward? In brief, good relationships...
Agreements/Constitutions for local groups
As well as encouraging the building of good relationships, we recommend that all local Churches Together groups have their own written Agreement – what in the past was described as a constitution. Good paperwork describes how you operate and does not require you to...
Formal Declaration of Ecumenical Welcome and Commitment
In many villages and in some inner-city areas there is only one church building, which is often a focus for the community. In these places, Christians of different traditions will want to combine faithfulness to their own denomination with a desire to worship and...
Sharing church buildings
Many churches share buildings with other churches. Buildings can be: shared on an informal basis subject to a Sharing Agreement under the Sharing of Church Buildings Act (1969) and/or can be a Shared Building Local Ecumenical Partnership. Whichever option is relevant for you, we recommend that you read the short resource Sharers,...
Joint ventures – running projects together
Local groups of churches often end up running joint ventures together, be it a foodbank or winter night shelter, or an initiative such as Street Pastors/Angels. This page links you with content across our site which will be useful to groups of churches looking to run ventures together locally: Mission...
Safeguarding Links
It is important that Churches Together groups abide by safeguarding practices. While CTE cannot give specific advice in this area, we have signposted you to a range of web pages below. Thirtyone:eight (formerly the Churches' Child Protection Advisory Service, and one of our Bodies in...
Insurance for local groups
Many local groups undertake joint activities such as mission work, walks of witness and joint services. These are wonderful opportunities to connect and serve together, but it is important to note that you must have insurance in place for these...
The Churches Together logo
The Churches Together in England logo portrays the Church as a ship afloat on the sea of the world with the mast in the form of a cross, itself the key symbol of the Christian faith. The symbol of a boat is...
Northern EOs Conference 2019
Denominational and County Officers in the North of England gathered together on 29-30 April 2019. Following the most successful 2018 meeting of Denominational Ecumenical Officers in the north, and at its request, the northern County Ecumenical Officers arranged this further overnight meeting from Monday 29 April to...
All-EOs’ Conference 2021
Nourishing the roots: a chance to refresh our ecumenical vision Book your place now This is the long-awaited and once-cancelled-due-to-Covid conference for all Ecumenical Officers. Please note that it has shifted to The Hayes, Derbyshire, so you may need to...
Ecumenism Today 2019
As a way of supporting Intermediate ecumenism (churches working together at the county level), the National Ecumenical Officers decided to hold a 24-hour conference for all Ecumenical Officers (EOs) in 2019, called Ecumenism Today. It was a great success, and a further conference was planned for 2020 (later postponed...
Planning the CEO element of the All EOs’ conference
The 2016 Consultation (for CEOs and NEOs) agreed that CEOs in the regions would take it in turns to plan Consultations according to a rota. After 2019, it was agreed that separate Consultations will no longer take place but that...