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Hopping for the hospice “THE UNDERTAKERS took the graveyard slot, playing hopscotch for half an hour at 2 a.m.,” said the Revd Bob Hill, telling me about the 24-hour Hopscotch... Subscriber only	Water, water everywhere NOT even torrential rain could dampen the congregation’s spirits at St Philip and St James’s, Hodge Hill, in north-east Birmingham. The parish... Subscriber only	Walking witness "I’VE SEEN hundreds of people come to faith on this two-week mission,” said the Revd Steve Clarke, chairman of the Walk Roding Mission, held recently... Subscriber only

Missing — one bell THE VICAR, the Revd Heather Wilson, was leading a parish pilgrimage to Assisi when the parish administrator, Diane Latchford, saw that someone had stolen... Subscriber only	Mission by hotpot THE church building had to be closed, but a retired train-driver’s hotpots are helping to hold the congregation together. Jim Gwilliam’s hotpot suppers... Subscriber only

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