Not all about Sundays on site
Online church has opened up access for so many disabled people who otherwise wouldn’t get to a church meeting. Whether you keep the Zoom rooms open as a separate congregation, or go “hybrid”, mixing on-site and online groups in the same gathering, digital ministry is (we hope) here to stay. Midweek, smaller gatherings on-site can be more accessible too – with fewer people it’s easier to spread out, and a small group can make the time to listen to each person.
Together Again
As we reconnect with our community and realise how different our experiences of the pandemic have been, a new app is available from the mental health charity Sanctuary, to help colleagues, families, groups of friends, and churches get back together. The Sanctuary App features “Together Again” a conversation game to help us reconnect as we ease out of lockdown. Together Again offers a series of questions and conversation prompts to help us talk through the challenges we’ve felt during the
pandemic, the anxieties we may be feeling about society reopening, as well as our hopes for the future.
The Sanctuary App is live now and will have further features and content added in the coming months. It can be downloaded from all the usual outlets and is available free.
Download The Sanctuary app
Do you have a great relationship with a care setting near you?
We’re curating a resource to help churches and care settings connect with each other, in preparation for this year’s Ability Sunday. If you and your church are connecting well with people who live in social care settings, please get in touch to share your story. We’ll co-produce the resource, with churchgoers whom Livability supports and their staff, over a few Zoom workshops in late September.