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Sheringham church launches Family Fridays  
A project to provide a meal and activities for local families has just been started by Lighthouse Community Church in Sheringham. (Author: Tony Rothe)

Norwich churches offered Christmas food hampers
Christian youth project ENYP is offering Norwich churches the chance to join its successful food poverty initiative and receive Christmas food hampers to give out. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norwich church giving out 150 food hampers
Gateway Vineyard church in Norwich is giving 150 food hampers to individuals and families across the city as part of the Love Christmas initiative. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norfolk churches look to post-Covid future
Network Norfolk is looking to highlight the innovative things which Norfolk churches and projects have learnt during the Covid-19 pandemic – new ways to worship, creative ways to engage with and serve their communities and reach them with the Gospel. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norwich foodbank marks a year under Covid-19
Norwich foodbank has just marked a full year of delivering emergency food parcels direct to people in need across the city to help them cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norwich church's year of family food initiatives
Teaming up with supermarket Morrisons to deliver pizza-making kits to local families in Catton, Norwich, over half-term, was just the latest in a pandemic-long series of initiatives by Oak Grove Community Church to help vulnerable people. (Author: Keith Morris)

Covid-19 leads to more Norfolk foodbank demand
Foodbanks across Norfolk have seen large increases in the numbers of families needing crisis food support during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Author: Keith Morris)

South Norfolk church hands out family lunch packs
Members at Carleton Rode Baptist church in South Norfolk handed out 260 lunch packs as well as 50 family wellness packs during the school half-term break. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norwich hospital chaplain answers Covid-19 appeal
A Norwich hospital chaplain has responded to the call for former NHS staff to return to help during the Covid-19 pandemic, 20 years after he was last part of the hospital chaplaincy team. (Author: Keith Morris)

Wymondham church's work honoured in awards
Hope Community Church in Wymondham is celebrating two awards in the recent South Norfolk Community Awards 2020 - the Lifetime Community Hero for Elisabeth Louis and runner-up in the Community Group of the Year.

New Thetford church helps vulnerable families
A new Thetford church, launched during the pandemic, has boxes and boxes of children’s clothes which it wants help to give to vulnerable families in the town.

Gorleston church puts on Christmas dinner
St Mary Magdalene in Gorleston put on a socially-distanced Christmas Day lunch for those who would otherwise have been alone. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norfolk Christian charity's Christmas hamper gifts
In the lead-up to Christmas Norfolk Christian charity ENYP has been working to distribute thousands of food and toy hampers to vulnerable families. (Author: Keith Morris)

Salvation Army helps 6,700 people across Norfolk
The Salvation Army has shared Christmas joy with 6,766 vulnerable people across Norfolk, including 3,810 children who will have presents to open on Christmas Day thanks to its annual Toys and Tins Appeal. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norwich church give hampers to NHS and families
Gateway Vineyard church in Norwich and Beccles has teamed up with a number of local agencies to make sure almost 200 hampers packed with food and toys find their way to vulnerable families and deserving NHS workers this Christmas. (Author: Keith Morris)

Operation aims to get Norwich churches working together
As the country goes into lockdown again, Norwich Christian charity ENYP is launching a new initiative, called Operation Zechariah, to help encourage collaborative working together with churches and other organisations across the city. (Author: Keith Morris)

Send us your lockdown stories of faith in action
An appeal has been issued to churches, Christian organisations and charities across Norfolk to talk about what they will be doing to help vulnerable people through the second national lockdown. (Author: Keith Morris)

Bags of half-term fun thanks to Norwich churches
Over 100 children in Norwich have been busy using Harvest activity packs including craft and cookery items over the half-term holiday, thanks to two local churches. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norwich Bishop amazed by church's Covid response
The Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, says he has been amazed by the response of the county’s church goers and clergy to the Covid-19 pandemic, in an interview to mark the end of his first year in office. (Author: Keith Morris)

Norfolk vicar's Covid-19 work honoured by the Queen
A Gorleston vicar has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List, delayed from June to provide an opportunity to recognise some of those involved in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Author: Keith Morris)

How Covid-19 lessons might crack climate change 
A line-up of eminent speakers is applying lessons from Covid-19 to climate change. Willem Buttinger, who initiated this webinar for Norfolk, describes how it came into being. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Norfolk charities get last chance for Tesco funding 
Charities and community organisations in Norfolk who have been struggling to maintain their work can access £500 of funding from Tesco’s Covid-19 fund, administered by community charity Groundwork. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Norwich church delivers 800,000 lockdown meals
Soul Foundation, the outreach arm of Soul Church, Norwich, has delivered around 800,000 meals to people in need across the area during lockdown. (Author: Keith Morris)

Gorleston church's support feeds 120 a week  
St Mary Magdalene in Gorleston has adapted its family support programme this summer because of current restrictions but has seen a significant increase in uptake. (Author: Tony Rothe)

Norwich church grateful as it emerges from wilderness 
God’s provision during lockdown has been overwhelming for Oak Grove Community Church. Pastor Darren Woodward gives thanks for God’s goodness through a tough season. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Most Norfolk churches did social action during lockdown
Covid-19 and lockdown did not stop most Norfolk churches serving their communities, a survey by Network Norfolk has revealed - they just did it in new and innovative ways.

Norwich fellowship provides a professional deep clean 
It seems that God was preparing Norwich pastor Stuart Bailey for the pandemic by providing him a job as an infection control lead. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Norwich church finds a path through the re-opening maze 
How do you keep the church family together as services resume? Andy Rees, lead pastor at Surrey Chapel, describes how his church has recognised the best route. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Taverham church works together hand in hand with community
Whether the need was wash bags or plants, Tec church has stretched every fibre of the imagination to support its local community. Vic Ready, Senior Pastor of the church, tells the story. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Diocese of Norwich provides 20,000 family meals
Over 20,000 meals will be provided to hungry families over the school summer holidays thanks to the churches and schools of the Diocese of Norwich. (Author: Keith Morris)

Gorleston church active during lockdown  
Cliff Park Community Church in Gorleston has been active in supporting the local community during lockdown, helping with food and meals distribution, as well as on-line services and an Alpha course.

ENYP adapts service to support people in need
During the last few months during the Covid-19 outbreak ENYP has been unable to deliver its usual programme of clubs and activities, and instead has looked at ways to continue to engage with thousands of children, young people and their families.

Volunteers plea from Wymondham crisis food project
A plea for volunteers has gone out from a community outreach project based at Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury church in Wymondham, which has been helping to support and feed 80 vulnerable families a week during lockdown.

Norfolk memorial to people who died of virus
A special memorial to those who have died from Coronavirus in Norfolk has been put in place in front of the Nave Altar at Norwich Cathedral.

West Norfolk online maths class is a global hit
A Diocese of Norwich Primary Academy teacher’s maths and phonics lessons have been a hit on YouTube, reaching across the globe from their base in West Norfolk.

Norwich church needs help to update computers  
Staff at Oak Grove Community Church in North Norwich are currently home-working, but they need to update some of their computer resources in order to continue to effectively support their local community. (Author: Tony Rothe)

Church has grown during coronavirus pandemic
A new report launched today by the Evangelical Alliance has found that 59% of the UK churches surveyed are reporting a marked increase in people interested in finding out more about the Christian faith. (Author: Helen Baldry)

Norwich church community pantry feeds hundreds
A Norwich church's free community pantry scheme has fed a record 211 people from 55 families in the last week as it expands to meet increased demands.

Praying provision for those bound in poverty 
Jill Gower invites us to focus our prayers on those who are struggling financially because of Covid-19, and to have an entrepreneur anointing. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Supporting families bereaved during pandemic
The challenges of being a funeral director during a pandemic are significant writes Norwich Christian director Kevin Cobbold.

Cromer foodbank coping with increased demand
The Cromer and District Foodbank has experienced a substantial increase in demand for food supplies this Spring, with families in particular needing help, and they have adapted their procedures in order to cope. (Author: Tony Rothe)

Norfolk counsellor helps to start free service for NHS staff 
A Norfolk-based Christian counsellor is one of a trio who have launched a free support service for people who are being impacted by Covid-19.

Christ Church crafters create a Quilt of Kindness 
A creative women’s group at Christ Church in Eaton has come together to make a ‘Quilt of Kindness’ to help people reflect on the kindness being displayed during lockdown.

Norwich church launches telephone lifeline
A new initiative, called ‘Two’s Company’, is being launched by Oak Grove Community Church in North Norwich this week as a lifeline to those who find themselves cut off from the outside world during the Covid-19 crisis. (Author: Keith Morris)

Matthew Project lockdown challenge raises £3k 
Supporters of the Matthew Project in Norwich have raised over £3,000 for the Christian charity by taking part in a 21-day lockdown challenge to give something up or take up a positive activity. (Author: Keith Morris)

Helping Norfolk churches to house the homeless
The Christian charity Hope in Action is planning to expand its work to house the homeless to two more towns in Norfolk and continue despite the Covid-19 lockdown. (Author: Eldred Willey)

High school helps to create visors and face masks
Members of staff at Notre Dame Catholic High School have been busy producing PPE for the NHS and other frontline workers. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Jill invites the Church to become living stones 
Jill Gower from the Call to Prayer ministry sees a new way of being Church during the Covid-19 lockdown, as we prepare our hearts to receive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. (Author: Eldred Willey)

Martham churches’ foodbank meets local needs  
The churches in Martham in East Norfolk are working to provide a foodbank to meet local needs during the coronavirus crisis, but this may become permanent after the lockdown eases. (Author: Tony Rothe)

Rural Norfolk church offers a shop-and-chat service 
The Fountain of Life Church in Ashill is offering practical assistance to church members and many others in the wider community who need help during the current pandemic. (Author: Eldred Willey)