Category: News

Life in the Spirit Seminars 2021

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Music for the Life in the Spirit Seminars run by the Diocese of Southwark

The Worship group helped prepare music for online Life in the Spirit seminars which were organised by the Diocese of Southwark over May and June 2020. 

The group prepared recorded music for most of the sessions, but joined the team for a preparation weekend, and for the prayer in week 4 for Baptism in the Spirit, led by Fr Pat Collins.  The seminars were attended by 150+ people in the diocese.

Autumn 2021 Life in the Spirit Seminars run by the Archdiocese of Birmingham

From September to November 2021 some of the Community is involved in helping to organise the Life in the Spirit Seminars being run in the Archdiocese of Birmingham as part of the Diocesan renewal program, in the core team, helping with worship and small groups  

For more on the worship ministry please see Young People / Schools

CHARIS National Services of Communion Hour of Praise

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The Catholic Charismatic renewal in England ran a weekly online hour of praise on Wednesday evenings since early 2020. The praise was led by a different group across the UK every week, and was broadcast live on its Facebook page.

The HOD worship team were invited to lead the praise twice, including the last hour of praise to be held, before Pentecost 2021.

Outreach with Blessed to be a Blessing (BTBAB)

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For many years we have had contact with BTBAB as they held their training sessions for overseas missions in the Retreat Centre.  Due to Covid restrictions this year, they were unable to travel abroad, and so had their first UK outreach this summer. 

Silvie from community joined the group, training with them and then spending the week working with refugees in Coventry and homeless people in Birmingham.  This was very valuable experience for Silvie, and gave us a greater opportunity to engage in this type of mission. 

BTBAB will continue to hold their training events and retreats in the HOD Retreat Centre, and we may have opportunities to join them on future missions.

Photos courtesy of Blessed to be a Blessing

New Blog and Social Media

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Welcome to HOD’s new Blog and Social Media!

The new blog will be the latest way we will stay in contact regularly with all of our supporters and friends. 

The main purpose of the Blog will be to post regular updates to help paint a picture as effectively as we can of the Charity and all its activities.

Watch out for regular mini-updates, photos etc. of all that the Charity does in pursuit of the Vision of community.

Social Media

Early in 2021 we started new HOD social media channels:

HOD YouTube channel

HOD has a new YouTube channel youtube.com/channel/UCelO0.

We will be starting to share content from the community and the speakers who have been blessing us in lockdown during virtual Zoom meetings. 

Please subscribe to our channel to follow us…  You’ll receive updates when we publish recordings of speaker talks.  One day we may do live broadcasts, God willing!

Please also share with anyone who may benefit from the talks and other resources we share.

HOD Twitter Account

We have also started a new Twitter account at https://twitter.com/HouseoftheOpen1 

Please subscribe to follow our Tweets…  We will be advertising upcoming events, meetings and sharing news.

God bless

 

 

Guests returning to our new Self Catering accommodation

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We have been relieved that with Covid restrictions lifting (in part) recently, we have been able to welcome groups and individuals back to our beautiful Retreat House and Cottage.

Both have been redeveloped as self catering accommodation; we ask guests to keep to our careful Covid guidelines but are keeping everyone safe. 

There is plenty of space so please consider contacting us to book in to stay if you would like, or spread the word to anyone who needs self catering accommodation!