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A Christmas Message – by Allan Spencer
It’s been suggested that if you strip away all the Christmas activities and traditions, then you’re left with no Christmas at all! Yet at its heart Christmas will always be much more than traditions. At its heart, Christmas is about the birth not just of a baby but of the beginning of a new relationship…
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Emergency Services in Praise – 2021
The Christian Ambulance Association hosted an Emergency Services in Praise event at Monyhull Church in Birmingham on the 7th September 2021. Members of the Christian Ambulance Association, Christian Police Association and Firefighters for Christ were in attendance from all over the country, and it was a wonderful time of worship and fellowship together…
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Pray 4 Your Police (P4YP)

Part of our vision is to see ‘an active and growing Branch of CPA in every Police Service in the UK’. Let us pray particularly where Forces have no active Branch, indicated in red and especially where there is no single point of contact (SPOC). Print, and pray every day!
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Reports

During 2020, and continuing into 2021, we found new and innovative ways of delivering our Mission and Vision, within the restrictions that the Covid Crisis brought. Whilst we had to cancel a number of our conferences, we moved online, and have had a great times of fellowship. Our Trustees continued to meet by video conference too. We also continued in our coordination of the International Day of Prayer for the Emergency Services…
Lee Russell
Executive Director

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This document provides a step by step guide to help faith communities to engage with the police and to focus their passion for helping others in such a way to support the police and to find long term solutions. It is for neighbourhood police teams who feel they are fighting these challenges alone and struggling to find solutions and for faith groups who want to help but don’t know where to start.

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It was always the practice, in the early days of the Christian Police Association to hold the annual gathering at Exeter Hall in the Strand, London. Many well-known speakers were invited to participate, among them the famous Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon. He spoke to CPA on more than one occasion but his first visit was in 1890 when he gave as his title ‘Why should a policeman be a true Christian?’ As the Gurney family business was shorthand writing, it is hardly surprising that such talks were fully recorded and many appeared in the CPA magazine. The message that follows appeared in the On and Off Duty magazine for June 1890.

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