Author Archives: MUe

Children love stories, and reading them Bible stories is a great way to help even young children begin to hear about a God who loves and cares for them. Children like to get involved in helping to tell the story, and this also helps them to concentrate. The props for this story telling session, that […]

Comments from couples who have attended preparing for your marriage sessions, led by members who have participated in Mothers’ Union’s Loving for Life training programme “It has given me confidence that, as a couple, we actually work very well together and that the disagreements we do have are normal.” “We were a bit worried – […]

Ideas for Mothers’ Union • Arrange to meet with local clergy in person, perhaps inviting them for a meal, in order to share fellowship together and have time to really talk. • Share with the clergy details of what you are already doing, so that they know about the support you can offer the local […]

When students go to the university, it can be the first time they have had to cook, and budget, for themselves. Members from the Diocese of Wakefield produce a recipe book, ‘Grub On No Grant’ which includes cheap, nutritious recipes. The recipe books are given away free to students by Mothers’ Union at the University […]

Using cross stitch, members make these crosses and then give them out to family and friends, and in many other contexts too, praying for these people. It’s amazing how grateful people are when they receive them, appreciating the care and thoughtfulness that the gift of a cross represents. Depending on who the crosses are given […]

This card, intended for a couple who are about to get married, includes a prayer and a Bible verse. There is space for the name of the bride and groom to be hand written. There’s also a second card, for the couple’s family and friends, inviting them to pray for the couple as they begin […]

Many branches around the UK & Ireland help individuals and families focus on the meaning of advent, by passing round a hand knitted replica of the Holy Family*. Some dioceses add in story books, prayers and poems which families can read together. The travelling nativity stays with a family overnight and is then taken by […]

Away From It All (AFIA) is a holiday scheme primarily funded by members of Mothers’ Union, to help people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to have a holiday. The scheme is open to anyone who is experiencing stress in their family life. By going on an AFIA holiday families are enabled to spent quality time together and […]

Each church will have its own special way of enabling the whole church family to welcome and pray for the baptism family. This idea comes from a Scandanavian church and is most appropriate for the baptism of a child already known in the church. Each member of the church congregation, whether adult or child, is […]

Members, with the approval of their incumbent, take on a befriending role to support couples preparing to get married in their church throughout the period before their wedding, and sometimes beyond. The aim is to help couples feel welcomed as they attend church services before the marriage, particularly if the couple are new to the […]