Diocese of Winchester

This weekend sees the opening of the North Hampshire Child Contact Centre in Hook. It will be opening on the first and third Saturday’s of March to its first clients.
The North Hampshire Child Contact Centre has been initiated by, and the management committee is made up of, members from the North Hampshire Downs Mothers’ Union. [...]

The Christian Calendar is now moving into Lent as we mark Ash Wednesday on 16th February 2010. Christian tradition encourages us to examine ourselves honestly, acknowledge our shortcomings, and seek reconciliation with God and with each other where we have compromised our relationships. Mothers’ Union has produced some material for Lent:
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As part of this years Mothers’ [...]

Mothering Sunday 2010 is on Sunday 14th March, and once again Mothers’ Union are running their ethical gift campaign to enable people to remember the much loved Mothers and raise funds for much needed project work across the world. If you are reading this before Tuesday 9th March 2010, and haven’t yet taken part, you [...]

Valentine’s Day this year falls on Sunday, the last day of National Marriage Week 2010. It gives churches the opportunity to celebrate God’s gift of love and marriage, and the commitment that both involve.
Mothers’ Union believes strongly that marriage provides couples, and children of the couple, with the best foundation for a happy, stable family [...]

Mothers’ Union members around the globe have started to pray for members and projects organised by Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Winchester, and the family of diocese to whom it is linked in our annual cycle of prayer. Winchester, Kitgum and Muhabura (both in Uganda), Masasi (in Tanzania) and Kajo-Keji (in Sudan) will remain [...]

Kitgum is situtated in Northern Uganda and is one of the Diocese we form our regular international links through the Mothers’ Union Wave of Prayer. Together with Kitgum and Muhubura in Uganda, Masasi in Tanzania and Kajo-Keji in southern Sudan, we will be at the centre of the prayers of all Mothers’ Union members around [...]

The theme over-arching all Mothers’ Union work in 2010, across the 78 countries in which it operates, is Relationship Not Rules. We are moving into a new triennial in the development of our activities, and many members will be taking new leadership roles in their local Mothers’ Union groups and quite possibly in their church [...]

Every family is formed by a network of relationships where some members have particularly close relationships, and the same is true of the Mothers’ Union family; each diocese which has Mothers’ Union members is linked closely with a small group of other Mothers’ Union diocese around the globe, so that they get to know each [...]

Mothers’ Union has been privileged to be included in the Church of England’s online Advent calendar. The initiative, called Why are we waiting?  Has a filmed message for each day in Advent from dioceses and Christian development charities. Mothers’ Union will be the featured charity on 23rd December.
The calendar can be found by following this [...]

On the first Wednesday of each month, Mothers’ Union supporters in the Winchester Region meet for a short service of worship and prayer in the Epiphany Chapel of Winchester Cathedral.
This month the newly re-formed Yateley Branch from Odiham Deanery led a short service of worship based on part of the days lectionary reading from the [...]

Do you have somewhere you could promote Mothers’ Union by putting up and A4 or A3 sized poster that says what it is we do?
Aren’t they eye catching?
If you want to help us, help communities all over the world to improve family life, please help us by displaying one of the three new posters now [...]

Mothers’ Union members go to one wing of HMP Winchester each month to worship with, and preach for the inmates. One of our contacts there is Jade, a member of the chaplaincy and it’s Church Army Community Chaplain, a role which enables her to have contact with the inmates families, and to follow up their [...]

Mothers’ Union members are active in an incredibly diverse number of ways in their communities around the world.
There are many development projects being resourced. Recent posts and our information pages detail some of them, including the Family Life Programme in Uganda, and the Literacy and Development Programme.
Other projects run by Mothers’ Union worldwide are featured [...]

East Africa is in the middle of a drought. In Kenya the problem is particularly acute: an estimated 10 million people are already living with starvation. Speaking to the ‘Church Times’ in August, Fiona Thomas (who works at Mary Sumner House, head office of Mothers’ Union) was quoted as saying:
Mothers’ Union Kenya, had started to [...]

This year, Mary Sumner Day (9th August) falls on a Sunday.
Mary Sumner is remembered in the Anglican Lectionary as the founder of Mothers’ Union, which started at Old Alresford in the Diocese of Winchester in 1876. There is much more information about her linked to our page here: Mary Sumner
In the companion volume to Common [...]