Most of the time a spiritualist medium will have trained his or her natural gift over a number of years, often through a development group at a spiritualist church.

A spiritualist church is a local venue where a band of hardworking committee members give up their free time to keep the doors open all the year round.

Mediumistic speakers will use clairvoyance when they take a service at a spiritualist church; being clairvoyant, they are an instrument that is used to prove there is an existing world on another plane that is free from pain and other physical restraints.

Spiritualists believe there is no death. Rather, it is a matter of stepping through an open door to a dimension where the physical body is no more and other departed family members will be there to meet and greet their loved ones.

The service is held to allow visiting mediums give messages from family, friends and even neighbours who wish to let everyone know they are still alive; unfortunately time is short and not everyone attending the service is able to receive a message.
One point to remember is that mediums are also here to live an earthly life even though they are happy to use their gift to bring comfort to those who have suffered from bereavement.

There is no one forcing a person attending church to believe in the afterlife and if a person wishes to book a private reading by a local medium, they can use search engines to find private readings in the area where they live such as Cheshire, Merseyside or the Wirral to arrange a booking.