CRE Midlands 23 will feature more than 150 exhibitors and some 50 talks and presentations. Here’s a small sample of what you can expect.
Mission on the Map: At every exhibition visitors tell us mission is a key area they want to promote in their churches so we’re putting it centre stage! Mission on the Map will feature a dozen or so exhibitors profiling mission-related opportunities, resources and advice.
Saints Alive! with Roger Jones: He has 24 musicals under his belt and musical maestro Roger Jones will bring a Birmingham-based choir to CRE Midlands for a 50-minute performance of his sixth musical – Saints Alive – with Pentecost as its theme.
Effective fundraising: When church members realise they need specialist help to raise funds for a special project, it saves time and effort. Action Planning’s David Saint will show you how a structured fund-raising plan can make all the difference.
Worship resources: ‘Our vision is to serve the local church with a great tasting and hygienically-packaged product, especially important after Covid-19,’ explains Bayo Oniye, a Birmingham-based pastor and founder of mmeyou’s prefilled communion cups.
Church management: The Life Events Diary is designed to help you manage weddings, baptisms, funerals or banns. With automated reminders, online enquiry forms and digital production of the marriage registration document, the diary covers all bases.
Bereavement counselling: With about 600,000 people dying in the UK each year, Loss and HOPE is a valuable coalition of organisations who feel passionately about churches being equipped to support the bereaved. Rev Cassius Francis, project co-leader with exhibitor Loss and Hope, will speak on the subject.
Evangelism: A new training course that helps you share your faith naturally with family and friends is now being used around the world. Living & Telling can be found on the Agapé UK stand.
Books, books, books: With so many Christian bookshops disappearing from the high street CRE Midlands 23 offers you a chance to stock up, especially with Christmas in mind.
Goodbye noticeboards: Share exclusive text, images, audio and video directly to the phones of visitors to your church. It uses less power than a low energy light bulb and doesn’t even require wi-fi or a mobile network. Goodbye noticeboards, hello Info Point!
The world’s a stage: Gopak Ltd, British manufacturer and long-standing CRE exhibitor will display its Ultralight Staging System alongside a range of lightweight folding tables – firm favourites with churches nationwide.
Coping with copyright: Discover a new system from CCLI which automatically reports which hymns and songs have been used during a church service
The BIG Sing choir: They scored a big hit with the judges on Britain’s Got Talent and will help open CRE Midlands 2023 (10am, Wed 8 Nov, Cranmore Park, Solihull).
New exhibitors are taking floor space every week. For a current list, click here.
A full list of talks and presentations will be available in August
Book your ticket for CRE Midlands 2023 here from as little as £3
Organisations looking to book a stand should contact James Batterbee 0161 250 2306 (E: james@creonline.co.uk) or Carol Malpass 0161 250 2467 (E: carol@creonline.co.uk)
Click to view the latest floorplan and price list for available stands