Use this as a springboard for enabling the church community/communities to value each other, celebrate each other, and accompany one another on the journey of discipleship through ‘all the changing scenes of life.’ Comprehensive and joyful, acknowledging the value and necessity of not only the rites of passage such as Baptism and Confirmation, but also the often ignored and forgotten need to celebrate the gifts which each member brings to the church by their involvement.The list of potential celebrations is very useful and may well be crucial for those planning such celebratory services in establishing whether anyone/any group has been omitted who should be included. Having been involved in a service which was a ‘Thank you’ to all who helped out in a large church, with people bringing to the altar symbols of their roles (dusters, mugs, Bibles, song sheets, bell rope etc) it would have been useful to have the checklist and some of the creative ideas now available in this book. Welcomes and Farewells can be difficult occasions to pitch correctly, so the liturgies offered here will do much to assist those given the task of organising such services. The service for Closing a Church is particularly sensitive, with the repeated refrain of ‘We gather here to celebrate all that has gone before, and now we turn towards all that is to come’ being used in each part of the church building, acknowledging the pain often felt at such a closure but also acknowledging that the Church is the people, who ‘will continue to be the living church’.