Your Arise Hallow how-to
Are you ready for Arise Hallow? Make the most of your chance to shine in Sheffield with the tips and links below:
Shine Your Light Fortnight
18 October - 1 November 2026
Shine as an Individual
Wear your faith
Over the last 4 years Wear Your Faith has a chance to shine, without needing to say anything. By wearing clothing or accessories that share your faith, you signal that you’re a Christian, and that you’re open to deeper conversations about God.
A stranger might strike up a conversation with you at a bus stop or barbers. Not only that: wearing a sign of our faith helps to remind us about Who we’re representing every day as we go about our lives. You could
Wear a sticker, pin or badge
Borrow something from a friend or family member
Print out one of our Wear Your Faith Fortnight colouring sheets and make the design your own, then display it in the window of your house or car.
Decorate your home
Halloween is scary? Let’s change the conversation by decorating our homes with a gospel message or verse about hope, light, peace or joy? Some messages you could share are
Jesus is the Light of the World (Jn. 8:12)
Peace with God through Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:1)
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace (Rom. 15:13)
Shine Together
Truth and Treat bags
Churches, schools and individuals can purchase Truth and Treat bags as an easy way to share the Gospel with their community – they come with a children’s gospel story book and stickers, plus a glow-in-the-dark wristband. Fill them with your own sweets and share them with anyone that comes to your door! Alternatively, the bags can be used as party bags at Light Parties.
Serve your community
Shine your light together and make a difference in your neighbourhood. Why not get your hands dirty with cleaning your streets with a litter pick, helping a neighbour in need by preparing them a meal, volunteering for a local charity or organisation, or meeting any need that you see around you? Get together and be creative about how to serve your community.
Shine with a Light Party
As a church, school or community, host a light party to have some fun together without the scariness of Halloween.
Shine with a School Assembly
Lead a Shine Your Light assembly to talk about Jesus as the light of the world and to celebrate how the children have been shining their light during the first few weeks of the school year. The celebration assembly can be planned in conjunction with a Light Party in school for the children and their families.
Free Download: Wear Your Faith Fortnight Colouring Sheets
For anyone who loves to colour, here are free printable colouring sheets featuring each of the Wear Your Faith Fortnight designs, including the two runners-up from the Bishop’s Badge competition (far-right).
A great half-term activity, or something for the children at your church to colour this weekend; display your finished artwork in the window of your house and car as part of Wear Your Faith Fortnight.
Support Arise and encourage other Arisers with clothing and accessories featuring the new Arise Sheffield logo. Each purchase includes a donation to grow prayer and mission in Sheffield.
Stay Lit Apparel has some really unusual, conversation-starting clothing and accessories, for men, women and kids. They’re also offering a 10% discount code for anyone ordering for Wear Your Faith Fortnight: just add WEARYOURFAITH10 at checkout.
Revival for Everyone is a sustainable, affordable, UK-based Christian clothing brand with some brilliant scripture-inspired designs for men, women and kids.
Heavens Watch is a Christian clothing brand based right here in Sheffield featuring bold and memorable designs. 10% of each purchase price supports charitable causes.
Online Christian store Eden has a brilliant and varied stock of Christian badges and jewellery to suit most tastes.
Amazon has a range of Christian clothing and accessories with convenient delivery.
Streets of Light
26 October - 1 November 2026
Streets of Light is an Sheffield initiative that started in 2017, inviting people to decorate a window of their home or business with a positive message of light, hope and love, and illuminate it each evening for a week around Halloween. This year the dates are 26 October - 1 November
Find out more about how to get involved, and sign up at www.streetsoflight.co.uk
Watch this video to see just how easy it is to create a Streets of Light window.
Here are some other simple ways to create a display:
Use a light-box
Use chalk or paint pens
Check out this article with tips and advice on decorating a window
Use tissue paper
Re-purpose your Summer solar lights
For visiting trick-or-treaters
October 31
Halloween is a great opportunity to connect with families in your local area. What other night of the year do strangers knock on doors requesting gifts? We can give them the best Gift of all this Halloween.
This year Arise is offering church communities Bags of Hope, which contain a children’s Bible storybook, a Gospel of John, and some stickers, all within a takeaway bag ready for you to fill with sweet treats. If your church hasn’t ordered Bags of Hope, but you’d still like to share your faith with trick-or—treaters, here’s a quick shopping list of things you might need:
Paper/sugar-cane gift bags - you could even customise them with decorations and Bible verses
Small packaged sweets and treats - buy these from any supermarket, or you can even buy ones packaged with Bible verses
Family-friendly cards with a Christian message - Eden offers a variety of multipacks
For more ideas, check out this article from Arise magazine featuring suggestions for how to engage with Halloween.
Share your story
We’d love to hear how you get on as you shine in Sheffield this season. Please send any pictures, stories, and tips about what you’ve done during Arise Hallow to hello@arisesheffield.org, or tag us on social media using #wearyourfaith and #wyff2023.