Alpha UK

12 May 2006

Alpha pioneer Nicky Gumbel has published a 58 page booklet offering a Christian response to the issues raised in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

21 October 2005

The Most Rev'd Henry Luke Orombi, Archbishop of Uganda, with the August 2004 consent of the House of Bishops of the Church of Uganda, appointed a priest of the Church of England, the Rev'd Prebendary Sandy Millar, as Assistant Bishop in the Church of Uganda. He will be consecrated in Uganda on 27th November 2005.

9 September 2005

The UK's first cinema advertisement for Christianity is launched today.
The advertisement, which will be seen by an estimated 2.4 million people during two weeks in September, features a 19-year-old model on a fashion shoot; a mountaineer climbing a peak; and a footballer scoring a winning goal.

7 June 2004

A mobile phone with a thought-provoking text message is to form the basis of the UK's biggest annual Christian advertising initiative this year.

27 August 2003

The UK's biggest annual Christian advertising initiative is to use a poster design featuring three young people this September. The Alpha Initiative is supported by 7,000 churches of all denominations across the country.

6 June 2003

The UK's biggest annual Christian advertising initiative is to use a poster design featuring three young people this September. The Alpha Initiative is supported by 7,000 churches of all denominations across the country.

23 May 2002

A striking poster design has been unveiled for a nationwide advertising initiative supported by 7,300 churches of all denominations to promote the Alpha course this September.

5 June 2001

The laughing face of 33-year-old Ade Adebajo is to form the main image of a nationwide advertising initiative supported by 7,000 churches of all denominations in September.

6 September 2000

High security prisons are joining thousands of churches across the UK to 'invite the nation to supper' this month.