Take a look at what’s coming up…
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Events with local churches
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Online Retreats & Events
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Residential Retreats
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Day Events
Ministry Seminars
Ministry Seminars
Thursdays at 2-3.15pm from 16th April to 14th May
This year our work on the history of charismatic renewal moves into a new phase, focussing on how what we have been learning can resource the church today. These Ministry Seminars offer an opportunity to reflect on varied aspects of charismatic life and ministry. Each seminar (led by ReSource Director, Christopher Landau) will include input from speakers engaging with both recent history and contemporary practice. There will be opportunities for discussion in breakout rooms, and a time of plenary feedback/questions. Each seminar will conclude with a time of open prayer.
There will be opportunities for discussion in breakout rooms, and a time of plenary feedback/questions. Each seminar will conclude with a time of open prayer.
Repeating weekly, exploring the themes of:
23rd April: Spiritual Gifts as tools, not trophies: problems and possibilities.
30th April: Facing the shadows: the impact of abuse and failure in charismatic ministry.
7th May: Developing or re-invigorating Prayer Ministry in the local church.
14th May: Connecting with liturgy: baptism, confirmation and anointing as conduits for the Spirit’s work
Regional Gathering - Wales - Llandrindod Wells
All who are thirsty…
Part of a series of regional gatherings, offering a day of spiritual refreshment.
Join ReSource at Holy Trinity on Saturday 25th April. We will worship and encounter God afresh, renew our faith in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit and discern how God is calling us in this particular season. We will also pray for each other, enjoy a good quality lunch and have the option of receiving prayer ministry and/or anointing with oil. This day will be led by the Revd Jolyon Trickey, the Ven Mones Farah and others. Book your tickets below.
Saturday, 25th April | 10am — 4pm
Venue: Holy Trinity, Spa Road, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5EY
Book your ticket at the bottom of the page
09:45 Refreshments on arrival
10:00 Welcomes
10:20 Enter his Gates with Thanksgiving
11:05 Coffee break
11:30 Isaiah 55:1-6 & the desert experience – a conversation
with quiet and informal reflection
12:00 Response, followed by opportunity for prayer
1pm Lunch
2:00 Afternoon session, starting with worship
About ReSource
2:20 Finding Jesus at work
Discussion in small groups and panel reflections
3:30 Closing, prayer ministry with the offer of anointing
4:00 Departures
Regional Gathering – South Yorkshire - Barnsley
All who are thirsty…
Part of a series of regional gatherings, offering a day of spiritual refreshment.
Join ReSource at St George’s Church, Barnsley on Saturday 9th May. We will worship and encounter God afresh, renew our faith in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit and discern how God is calling us in this particular season. We will also pray for each other, enjoy a good quality lunch and have the option of receiving prayer ministry and/or anointing with oil.
Led by ReSource minister the Revd Jolyon Trickey and others.
Saturday, 9th May 2026 | 10am — 4pm
Venue: St. George’s Church, York Street, Barnsley, S70 1BD
Book your ticket at the bottom of the page
09:45 Refreshments on arrival
10:00 Welcomes
10:20 Enter his Gates with Thanksgiving
11:05 Coffee break
11:30 Isaiah 55:1-6 & the desert experience – a conversation
with quiet and informal reflection
12:00 Response, followed by opportunity for prayer
1pm Lunch
2:00 Afternoon session, starting with worship
About ReSource
2:20 Finding Jesus at work
Discussion in small groups and panel reflections
3:30 Closing, prayer ministry with the offer of anointing
4:00 Departures
Regional Gathering - NW Conurbations - Bolton
All who are thirsty
Part of a series of regional gatherings, offering a day of spiritual refreshment as we reflect on, and pray for, the renewal of smaller churches.
Join ReSource at St Andrew’s Church Over Hulton on Saturday 13th June for a day focussed on renewing hope in ‘little, local, ordinary’ contexts. We will encounter God afresh, renewing our confidence in the inextinguishable power of biblical hope. We will also have times to worship, to reflect, and to wrestle together with the practicalities of living hopefully in smaller churches. This day will be hosted by the Revd Jolyon Trickey, the Ven David Picken and others. Book your tickets below.
Saturday, 13th June | 10am — 4pm
Venue: St Andrew’s Church Over Hulton, Crescent Ave, Bolton, BL5 1EN
Book your tickets at the bottom of the page
09:45 Refreshments on arrival
10:00 Welcomes
10:20 Enter his Gates with Thanksgiving
11:05 Coffee break
11:30 Isaiah 55:1-6 & the desert experience – a conversation
with quiet and informal reflection
12:00 Response, followed by opportunity for prayer
1pm Lunch
2:00 Afternoon session, starting with worship
About ReSource
2:20 Finding Jesus at work
Discussion in small groups and panel reflections
3:30 Closing, prayer ministry with the offer of anointing
4:00 Departures
The Past, Present and Future of Charismatic Renewal - Consultation
A consultation for church leaders exploring the past, present and future of charismatic renewal.
Monday 15th - Wednesday 17th June, 2026
What was gained by the church during the Charismatic Renewal in the period 1960 - 2000?
What has been lost since?
What wisdom do we learn from this history for the church’s ministry and mission today?
How do we introduce Christian life in the power of the Holy Spirit to those who are newly coming to faith - not least in the context of ‘quiet revival’?
These are some of the questions that will be explored during this three day gathering, which brings together serving church leaders with historians, theologians, and those with personal memories of charismatic renewal to share.
Drawing on new research focussed primarily on charismatic renewal within the Church of England, the Consultation will consider how this work of the Spirit impacts the whole church today, and into the future.
Venue: Yarnfield Park, Staffordshire.
Date: Monday 15th - Wednesday 17th June, 2026
Price from 1st Feb - £285pp
Key Contributors:
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Alive in Christ - Residential
Alive in Christ Residential
Join us at Lee Abbey in Devon for a 5 day retreat based around the Alive in Christ course. Book your space on the retreat here.
Designed to help you experience a more personal and life-changing relationship with God, the week will use the Alive in Christ material to focus on genuine transformation—not just learning about faith but living it. As we explore themes of freedom, forgiveness and purpose, we’ll be invited to experience God’s love in a fresh way, receive His healing, and discover what it means to live more freely and joyfully as part of His family.
Led by ReSource Minister Sarah Clark.
Holy Week Online Retreat
Join us online for our Holy Week Retreat.
Take a morning with others to reflect on the events that took place during Holy week. This retreat will be made up of 4 hour sessions, each one made up with times of prayer, guided reflections, sung worship and self reflection.
“The length of the talk/ bible study was ideal with lots to dwell on and to apply to my own life.”
An online retreat Attendee.
by ReSource Director, the Revd Dr Christopher Landau.
Renewed in Prayer, Pleshey Retreat
Renewed in Prayer
ReSource works to encourage spiritual renewal in local churches, particularly ‘little, local, ordinary’ churches. This retreat will explore a variety of approaches to prayer, with a particular emphasis on what it means for prayer to come alive through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The work of ReSource is founded on the promise of living water for every Christian (John 7:38), and we will relate this hope to our life of prayer, reflecting also on the promise in Romans 8 that the Spirit ‘helps us in our weakness’ and ‘intercedes for us’.
“ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. ” Romans 8: 26 - 27
Based at The Diocesan Retreat House, Pleshey, CM3 1HA
To book your place click here
ReSource has published a new course, Together in Prayer, which is particularly designed to help encourage small group prayer, including in contexts where few people are used to praying together in small groups.
Some elements of the retreat will draw on this material, and we will encourage those on the retreat to journey together in small group prayer (whether or not this is a new adventure in prayer for you!).
Led by:
Revd Dr Christopher Landau is the Director of ReSource. Before ordination he was the BBC World Service’s religious affairs correspondent; he is the author of Loving Disagreement and has a particular desire to see the Spirit bring unity among Christians. He has previously been in parish ministry in London, and student chaplaincy in Oxford. He is Honorary Professor of Practice in Christian Spirituality at Emmanuel Theological College.
Revd Esther McCafferty spent 37 years in full-time stipendiary ministry in ‘little, local and ordinary’ churches, having originally trained as a primary school teacher. Intercession has sustained and encouraged her in tough inner city/urban situations, and she now feels called to be a blessing to others, through intercession, in renewal, discipleship and mission. She has been an Intercessor for both ReSource and the international mission agency SOMA.
To book your place click here
Lunchtime Conversations - Blessings and Blind Spots
Blessings and Blind Spots
How do different traditions and streams within the life of the Church of England engage with the Holy Spirit?
What might this mean for the renewal of the church?
Join ReSource Director Christopher Landau for a series of live conversations on Zoom, on Wednesday lunchtimes in January and March, exploring these questions with a series of interviewees from across the breadth of the CofE.
Each session will begin at 1pm, with around thirty minutes of conversation between Christopher and his guest, followed by questions and input from those attending. The final ten minutes or so will be a time of prayer, using the ‘Prayer During the Day’ framework. Feel free to bring your lunch!
This series is now finished, but you can catch up on the conversations here:
Bishop Mark Tanner.
Mark is Bishop of Chester. As Patron of ReSource, he says it ‘exists to serve and seek renewal in the Spirit in every season without recourse to easy triumphalism or simplistic answers’. He is the author of The Introvert Charismatic.
Bishop Paul Thomas*.
Paul is Bishop of Oswestry, and a Forward in Faith Executive Committee member. As bishop he extends pastoral and sacramental care to 110 traditional catholic churches across the Canterbury province.
[*The conversation with Paul Thomas will be pre-recorded, and the live discussion following will reflect on his contribution and the series as a whole.]
The Revd Canon Dr Michael Leyden.
Michael is Dean of Emmanuel Theological College, which offers a wide variety of ministerial training across the north-west of England. Having served in a variety of contexts, Michael describes himself as a ‘sacramental charismatic’.
The Revd Marcus Walker.
Marcus is chair, and one of the founders, of the ‘Save the Parish’ movement. At St Bartholomew the Great in London he has overseen remarkable growth in a church that embraces history, tradition and a liturgical life rooted in the BCP.
The Revd Simon Ponsonby.
Simon is Pastor of Theology at St Aldates Oxford, and author of many acclaimed books on Christian discipleship, including More: How You Can Have More of the Spirit When You Already Have Everything in Christ.
Dr Ros Clarke.
Ros is Associate Director of Church Society and oversees its online content. She has a PhD on canonical interpretations of the Song of Songs, holds to complementarian theology, and is a member of General Synod.
Bishop Leah Vasey Saunders.
Leah was appointed Bishop of Doncaster in 2025, having previously been Vicar of Lancaster. She remains Chair of On Fire Mission, which promotes charismatic and Catholic renewal in the Church of England.
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Alive in Christ - Online
Following the success of the course in the Spring of 2025, we will be running this course again during Lent 2026.
Alive in Christ is a course for small groups, whose aim is to offer each member of the group a transforming experience of God’s love, enabling them to love and forgive others and helping them to become confident about serving God as a member of Christ’s Body.
Testimonies
“Have you ever wanted to try something different but have never been able to pluck up the courage to make that leap of faith? ‘Alive in Christ’ is a course that we encourage everyone to attend. It is perfect for anyone regardless of age, how long they have been a Christian or how strong their faith is. You have nothing to loose, and everything to gain. The course can be challenging at times but that is good. It makes you think, it helps you to address issues in your life and confirms that the love of God is all sufficient.”
“Alive in Christ is non-confrontational, there is no right or wrong, no pass or fail. You are amongst like-minded people who want to extend their learning by using the Bible, conversation, prayer and music to gain a greater understanding of how they can grow in faith and ultimately discover their role in God’s Kingdom.”
ReSource Minister Sarah Clark will be leading the Alive in Christ course online.
Ash Wednesday Online retreat
An online retreat to re-focus on Ash Wednesday
Wednesday 18th February | 9am – 1pm
The programme will include worship, music, teaching and times of silence, and a welcome to the Holy Spirit to meet us as we draw near to him.
Led by ReSource Minister: The Revd Jolyon Trickey
The day will be hosted on Zoom and is free of charge with the option to make a donation.
Please sign up on the form below. You will receive the Zoom link by return, and a programme a few days prior to the retreat.
Year of Prayer 2025
Prayer for the Renewal of the Church
Throughout 2025, ReSource will be praying specifically for the renewal of the church.
In a year that will see the appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury, please consider joining us for monthly times of prayer for God’s renewing work across all the churches of our nation - with a particular focus on the life and ministry of the Church of England, at this time of change and challenge.
12 noon on the third Thursday of each month, on Zoom
January 16th
February 20th
March 20th
April 17th
May 15th
June 19th
July 17th
August 21st
September 18th
October 16th
November 20th
December 18th
Using the Church of England ‘Prayer During the Day’, followed by open prayer
Some Scriptures to inspire our prayer…
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
I Peter 2.9,10
As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
John 17.18-23
Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body.
I Corinthians 12.12,13a
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