Church mission to get people back to pews
· Campaign aimed at lapsed churchgoers
· Department store trains priests to be more inviting
Riazat Butt
Tuesday September 25, 2007
The Guardian

The Church of England has launched a renewed effort to increase attendance in England and Wales, with clergymen using podcasts and planes to promote the campaign. Around 2,000 churches have signed up for Back to Church Sunday, making it one of the largest ever coordinated mission activities. Congregation members in England and Wales were asked to invite a friend who had stopped going to come back and churches are expecting an extra 20,000 people this Sunday. the rest

Flying bishops try to bring back lapsed Anglicans