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Advent and Christmas prayers and messages

Administrator — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:45:45 +0000

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 23^rd December.

The calendar can be found by following this link.

http://www.whywearewaiting.com/

This is likely to be the last posting on this website before Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Jesus into a family which faced several strains – not least the pressures on teenage parenthood for Mary and life as refugees. Where-ever you are reading this message, and whatever your circumstances, may your Christmas be blessed by God with peace and joy.

A selection of prayers from the Mothers’ Union, suitable for use on Christmas Day, are available to download here: MU_ChristmasDay_Prayers and the Mothers’ Union Christmas Message is available here: MU_Christmas_Reflection_2009

Promoting Mothers’ Union

Administrator — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:20:02 +0000

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 available. If you lead a local Mothers’ Union group you should already have received news of these new posters, but we’d love to see them springing up all over the place: churches, doctors surgeries, libraries, village halls and community centres – anywhere you can think of.

Supplies cost a nominal sum (usually £1) to cover postage and discourage wastage and are available by contact the Central Services Section of Mothers’ Union head office on 020 7222 5533.

Blog based content management

Administrator — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:31:46 +0000

When we re-launched this website early in 2009 we used some software designed for people who ‘blog’ but that is easily adapted for content management. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback in various places, mostly verbal, but including comments on the webmistress’ own blog here and here where she has discussed various associated ideas.

This week is the Mothers’ Union national Marketing Conference at Swanwick, where the webmistress of this site has just arrived to find free internet access! Truly delighted she is posting this entry from her room!!

In pre-conference discussions it appears that websites, especially cheap, interesting and easy ways of doing them, is going to be a hot topic of discussion. The following discussion paper has therefore been prepared, covering the practical background to this website and a discussion of how we use websites to create a wider community of people enthusiastic and knowledgable about Mothers’ Union. Please download it, share it and discuss it by clicking on the heading below:

Blog Based Content Management

PLEASE give us some feedback using the ‘comment’ facility enabled on this post on what you think of this website and the material in this discussion paper. ‘Comments’ are enabled on all our postings in the hope that you will tell us what interests you.