Church Magazine: Magazine's all the Rave
CHURCH magazine Rave, produced by a youth group at the Church of the Redeemer, Blackburn, is in the running for a national award. It won the Lancashire heat of the 1997 Ecclesiastical Insurance Parish Magazine Contest for its "excellent and imaginative" articles and now enters the national finals next month.A presentation of a certificate and £60 was presented to the youth group by the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Rev Alan Chesters. Second prize went to...
Church Magazine: South Wales Echo: A Schiffer scoop for church mag
SUPERMODEL Claudia Schiffer has handed a church magazine a massive scoop by allowing it to publish an exclusive picture of her wedding.Ms Schiffer went to considerable lengths to prevent photographers catching a glimpse of her wedding to film-maker Matthew Vaughan at Shimpling, Suffolk, last June, after she signed an exclusive deal with a magazine. But Ms Schiffer, who owns a mansion nearby, has said the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich can use a wedding photograph in its annual...
Church Magazine: The Gospel Trumpet
German-language church magazine published in York YORK -- As far-flung publishing empires go, the Christian Unity Press fits right in.One of the editors lives in San Jose, Calif. Another is in Toronto. A third is in Edmonton, Canada.The proofreaders are in Michigan and the big bosses are in Indiana.Much of the readership is scattered across Canada, Mexico, Germany and South America.But ink meets paper in a low-profile brick building set back from a busy Lincoln Avenue in...
Church Magazine: Side swipes at diet class,
It's A Funny Old World
I CHUCKLED at this notice in a church magazine: "Weight Watchers will meet at 7pm, please use the large double doors at the side."MRS K THORPE, Sale, Cheshire ON a holiday to New York I spotted this sign: "Complaints department, 56th Floor!" Next to it was another sign which read: "Elevator broken, please use stairs."MRS S SMITH, Knighton, Leicester...