| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | JustShare – a fair deal for a whole world | 4e |
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| JustShare is a coalition of Churches and Christian organisations committed to global economic justice. JustShare draws its vision and values from the Christian faith and it therefore views the extent of inequality in today’s global economy as contrar... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | JustShare Clergy Training: "How The City Works" | 2 |
| As part of the ministry of the JustShare coalition, training is offered to clergy on the workings of the City's financial and legal institutions, equipping them to understand and respond to the pastoral, ethical, and communal implications of internatio... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | JustShare Debate: What's the Point of Fairtrade? | 5c |
| During Fairtrade Fortnight 2008, JustShare hosted a panel discussion exploring 'What's the Point of Fairtrade?' The Panel comprised Kojo Aduhene-Tano and Paul Ayepah (Kuapa Kokoo Fairtrade cooperative, Ghana); Mark Boleat (Consultant); Adam Brett (Trop... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Feast Day High Masses | 1a |
| St Mary le Bow holds lunchtime and occasional evening High Masses for major Feasts falling on weekdays. The worship we offer seeks to bring together the best music, preaching, and liturgy, witnessing to the Kingdom of God in our midst. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | The Inspire Course | 1 |
| St Mary le Bow offers its own home-grown, lay-led course once a year. The Inspire Course helps people to connect their own spiritual experience with the Gospel and with the riches of the Christian tradition, and to deepen their prayer lives as they do so. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Trinity Wall Street partnership | 5d |
| A mention of St Mary le Bow in the charter of Trinity, Wall Street, New York, has linked the two parishes throughout Trinity's history. Today, that relationship means a frequent exchange of ideas and experiences, sharing resources, and seeking ways to ... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Chennai Mission Partnership | 5b |
| St Mary le Bow is committed to giving financial support to the Ewart Women's Hostel in Chennai, which allows Dalit girls to receive an education. We also value our relationship with the Dean of Chennai Cathedral, and with the Bishop of Madras, and look... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | The Inspire Course | 2b |
| The Inspire course seeks to enable people to connect their own spiritual experience with the Gospel story and the riches of the Christian tradition. It is accessible, home-grown, and lay-led, and we hope to offer it for use by other churches across the... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | World Cities Clergy Conference | 5 |
| As a joint initiative of St Mary le Bow and Trinity, Wall Street, a group of clergy whose ministry is to the world's major financial centres meets annually for mutual support. Currently the group includes the Rectors of Trinity Wall Street, St Mary le ... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Seasonal Meditations | 2c |
| As an adjunct to the Daily Offices, St Mary-le-Bow offers series of meditations in Advent and Lent, exploring the themes of the seasons and the celebrations to which they point, and enabling participants to connect those themes with their shadows and r... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Bible Stories in Cockney | 3 |
| At the initiation of a special-needs teacher working with children with severe learning disabilities, St Mary le Bow hosts sessions telling bible stories versified in the Cockney dialect. The rhythms and rhymes enable even the most disabled children to... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Business Fora | 2 |
| St Mary le Bow hosts monthly "Business Fora", helping senior business people in the City to understand the place of their faith in the workplace, through guided Ignatian meditation on passages of scripture. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Chennai Mission Partnership | 5 |
| St Mary le bow supports the Ewart Women's Hostel in Chennai, helping dalit women to escape oppression and obtain the education they need. We look forward to further partnerships with the Diocese of Madras, and to an eventual pilgrimage there. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | High Mass Collections | 6c,6d |
| St Mary le Bow raises money for special causes at each of its Feast Day celebrations. We will contribute through these collections to this goal. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Skilled volunteers programme | 7 |
| St Mary-le-Bow is committed to recruiting skilled volunteers from among those who work nearby to supply its IT and other needs. We will encourage the Corporation of London to press large companies to encourage their staff to offer their skills to those... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Paying Gross costs | 7a |
| St Mary-le-Bow aims to pay its gross costs, so that it will never be a drain on Diocesan finances. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Rolling Maintenance programme | 7g |
| St Mary-le-Bow is committed to the on-going maintenance of its building to the highest standard, ensuring that potential problems never become real ones, and that the building is best equipped to serve its parish. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Commoners of St Mary-le-Bow | 7 |
| By re-establishing the Commoners of St Mary-le-Bow, we have created an opportunity for those committed to the welfare of this parish to show their commitment through fellowship, as well as financially. | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | St-Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside: JustShare May Day Event | 4e |
| JustShare holds an annual event on May Day to raise awareness of global social and economic injustice. Intended as an alternative to the May Day Marches, it takes place on the steps of the Royal Exchange and attracts a large audience of city workers as... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | Big Brew | 5c |
| 250 cups of Fairtrade tea and coffee and more than 800 leaflets were distributed to passers-by at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday 11th July for the launch event of the Traidcraft-sponsored 'Big Brew.' The aim of the Big Brew was to promote Fairtrade ... | more... | |
| St Mary-Le-Bow Cheapside | City Microfinance Fund Consultation Meeting | 5b |
| On Tuesday 15th July, the Bishop of London, Bishop of Niassa, Bishop of Lebombo and Bishop of Angola joined JustShare, 4 microfinance agencies and a number of City leaders for a breakfast meeting kindly hosted by Eversheds. The aim of the meeting w... | more... |
