Upper Holme Valley Team Ministry

Royal School of Church Music
Christ Church is affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music.

www.cofe.anglican.org
The Church of England website.

Anglicans online
An independent website serving the entire Anglican Communion. Updated every Sunday, there are more than 10,000 links to parishes around the world and to a wide variety of resources covering every aspect of Anglican church life.

Resources for Readers and Intecessors

Lectionary Years

Lectionary Seasons

www.thehungersite.com
How to give food to the hungry for free! When you click the "Give Free Food" button (once a day per person) this simple action gives over a cup of fortified food to a hungry person. It costs you nothing. Funding is paid by site sponsors and food is distributed by two leading non-profit hunger relief organizations: Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest. If you are on the internet why not make this your home page and donate food every time you go on-line.

www.bignoisemusic.com
The Big Noise Music download site, launched recently, offers a catalogue of over 300,000 tracks and 12,000 artists. Tracks on the site cost from as little as 75p each and 10p from every pound spent on the site goes directly to Oxfam. Oxfam has received positive endorsement for Big Noise Music from the music industry. Artists have provided exclusive tracks for the site, launching with Coldplay and George Michael as well as competition prizes such unique gold discs and digital music players. Visitors will also be able to sign up to Oxfam’s global petition, called the Big Noise, calling on governments and world leaders to Make Trade Fair. Over 5 million people have signed the petition ranging from coffee farmers through to influential people like the Dalai Lama to people here in the UK, through to artists such as Chris Martin. On Demand Distribution (OD2), Europe’s leading digital distributor of music, is providing the backend technology, licensing and billing. OD2's platform allows access to over 300,000 tracks from major and independent labels, in the Windows media format. OD2 currently provide digital download services for other big names including HMV, Coke, MSN and Tiscali.

www.surefish.co.uk
A christian site with lots of information of campaigns, ethical shopping etc. Well worth a look. It also has a very good section on how to protect your computer while surfing including links to sites offering free virus software .

http://www.bl.uk/collections/toppage.html
Read ancient Bibles – on the internet Ancient Bibles and devotional works are some of the items that are now available to browse through on-line, thanks to a British Library initiative. The Turning the Page system allows viewers to see historic books from the Library’s collection page by page at the click of a mouse. The 10 works which have been made accessible include the Lindisfarne Gospels. Adrian Arthur, head of web services at the British Library, described putting Turning the Pages on-line as “an unprecedented opportunity to experience some of the great treasures of our collections in all their glory – not just as isolated reproductions.” ‘Turning the Page’ is at

www.shipoffools.com
Churches on the World Wide Web The UK's first web-based, 3D church, opened as a three-month experiment on May 11th 2004. Church of Fools is an attempt to create holy ground on the internet, where people can worship, pray and talk about faith. The church is partly intended for people on the edges of faith and so the language can be colourful. It has a virtual reality representation on screen much like an online game.

www.i-church.org
The internet church, or i-church, is a Christian community of the Church of England based in the Diocese of Oxford under the pastoral care of the Bishop of Oxford.

i-church is open to anyone, and membership can be held at the same time as membership of any other Christian Church. For people who travel a great deal or are unable to attend regularly, i-church can support them spiritually wherever they are in the world.

Organised through an active web site, and led by a properly authorised network of  ‘web pastors', its purpose is:

• to provide a Christian community for people who want to explore Christian discipleship but are not able to belong to a local congregation.

• to provide an additional means of support to those who do not find all that they need within their own worshipping community

• to provide a supportive spiritual community for people who travel, either through their work or in their life-style, and who are not able to maintain relationships with a geographical Christian community.