While public acts of worship are suspended, personal prayer and worship should - indeed must - continue. To that end, the resources below may be helpful to you (thanks to Guildford Diocese for sharing their ideas with us).
Stour Downs - Morning Prayer on Monday at 9am & Wednesday - Saturday at 9:15am and Evening Prayer at 6pm every day on their Facebook page. Conference call worship 9:30am on Sundays - find out more here
St. John’s Parish Church, Jersey - live streaming Sunday service, 9.30am, on their Facebook page
St Luke's, Jersey - worship online via their Facebook page.
St Peter's Boughton Monchelsea - live streaming Sunday service, 5pm, on their Facebook profile
All Saints Canterbury - live streaming Sunday service, 9:30am on their Facebook page, pre-recorded Youtube worship at 11am on Sundays, with dedicated children's service
Canterbury Cathedral - join in worship and prayer daily via their Youtube channel
St Mary Bredin, Canterbury - live streaming Sunday service from 10.30am, available on their Youtube channel
Holy Trinity Sittngbourne - daily updates and worship on their Youtube Channel
Biddenden & Smarden - Sunday worship, including all-age, on the Rector's Youtube Channel
St Mildred's Tenterden - daily prayer and worship on their website
Elham Valley Churches - mediations and reflections on their website
Minster Abbey - live worship via their Facebook page
Benefice of St Dunstan, St Mildred and St Peter, Canterbury - 9am Daily Prayer and 10am Sunday service via their Facebook page
Len Valley Benefice - worship materials and thought for the day available via their Facebook page
St Luke's, Ramsgate - Eater reflections and worship available via their Youtube channel.
North Downs Benefice - Sunday services available on their Youtube channel
The Six Benefice - weekly worship and reflections during the week on their Youtube channel
St Peter & St Paul, River - Sunday worship, 10am on their Twitch.TV channel and later on their Facebook page, which also features regular updates, including a daily Psalm and a weekly 'favourite hymn' reflection.
St Leonard's Upper Deal, St Nicholas Sholden, St Martin's Great Mongeham & St Richards Mill Hill - live streaming services on Good Friday, Sundays and other days via Zoom (email stleonardsoffice@btinternet for joining details).
Headcorn and the Suttons - streaming Sunday worship and thought for the day via their Facebook page and website, which also features other prayer and worship material such as a daily "art for Easter" reflection.
Tunstall & Bredgar - Morning Prayer every weekday online and an online service every Sunday morning, all using a video conferencing platform. On Good Friday at 7pm there will be an hour of music and reflection. All details on their Facebook page.
St Michael's Sittingbourne - livestreamed Daily Morning Prayer (10:30am) on their Facebook Page.
If you are planning to live stream any of your services, please ensure that you hold the appropriate copyright licence to cover your use of music and copyrighted materials. CCLI has created a special streaming licence for churches - find out more here.
AChurchNearYou.com now lists hundreds of churches offering livestreams of services from across the country. Churches need to add the 'Livestream' tag to their services and events that will be broadcast. Remember to add into the description how people can watch this. You add a link to the platform you're using to stream, such as your Facebook Page or YouTube Channel. Find out more about live streaming services and events.
For those people will miss sung worship you can create worship playlists. The aim here is to equip people with songs to listen to and sing along to, that help them in their worship and could play a useful part in their rhythm of worship.
The Church of England has created some dedicated prayer & liturgy for use during this time - find them here
The Church of England's Going for Growth website has a wide range resources for supporting worship and faith conversations in the home - download them for free here
Illustrated Ministries is supporting local congregations and families by providing free, weekly, faith formation resources for all ages - sign up to receive them for free
Church of England apps – apps with daily readings, prayer, and reflections on the psalms, to name a few.
Google Hangouts, Zoom and group chats on Facebook can mean that small groups can still meet, talk together and see each other using their smartphone or computer. Community is so important, especially where larger gatherings are not possible, so do encourage your groups to make use of technology to continue connecting with their community. This can be especially useful if one or more of the group has self-isolated, or if your group would be happier connecting digitally. Discussions, prayer, encouragement and fun can still happen during this time and are all the more important. Some useful tools:
