The Bristol Christian Action Network (BCAN), ISR and the Church Urban Fund (CUF) are working together with churches in Bristol to develop a deeper and more effective engagement with our city. We would like to follow up on work already carried out by inviting you to join with us on Saturday 25th February 2012, 10.00-3.30 at Easton Family Centre, BS5 0SQ. We want to explore how we can affect the social and political life of our city as a united church in Bristol. We will pick up on some national themes present in the church, look at responses being made to them in other cities and consider what this might mean for a united christian response to urban mission in Bristol.

ISR has just helped the churches in Brislington and St Anne's to appoint Bristol's first Parish Nurse.

This marks the culmination of a lot of hard work by the churches, and also ISR staff, to learn about parish nursing in the first palce, and then to develop an approach that will benefit the local churches involved.

Parish nursing is not new, but it is new to Bristol. The basic idea is to provide a means for recognising and responding to people's physical and spiritual health, and which links directly to people who attend local churches.

Importantly, Parish Nursing is a professional health care programme of work.