The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally will visit the Diocese over the weekend of 6 and 7 February. She will spend two days in the Diocese visiting churches and meeting with a range of people; hearing some of our stories and offering encouragement.
She will spend two days in the Diocese visiting churches and meeting with a range of people; hearing some of our stories and offering encouragement.
On Saturday, Archbishop Sarah will spend time in the southern part of the Diocese, meeting with clergy and lay leaders for a prayer breakfast before attending different community events and new worshipping communities in Malvern, Bromsgrove and rural Worcestershire.
The day will end in the Cathedral at 7.30pm, where all are welcome to come along to an event where Archbishop Sarah will be interviewed by a panel of young people. There will also be a chance to pray and worship together.
On Sunday, Archbishop Sarah will travel to Dudley where she will take part in a family service at our renewal church in Sedgley. She will have lunch with the Chaplaincy team at Russell’s Hall hospital before enjoying afternoon tea with local clergy and lay leaders and then presiding at an ‘On Fire’ service in Kingswinford.
Please put 7.30pm on Saturday 6 February in your diaries and look out for more details nearer the time – it would be great to have the Cathedral full to welcome Archbishop Sarah to our diocese.
At the recent Clergy Conference, the diocesan stewardship team launched a Boomerang offering, to help activate generosity across the Diocese. Each person was given a £5 note to take home, pray with and see what act of generosity God was calling them towards. We also asked them to share their stories of how the money was used.
Many of our churches hosted ‘light parties’ at the end of October as a popular alternative to Halloween. Some of our renewal churches hosted the biggest celebrations.
Our diocese has been awarded £3.6 million to continue to support churches as part of phase two of our programme to ensure our churches are healthy and sustainable for the future.
Kelly Gordon is a member of Wordsley Parish in Greater Dudley Deanery. She has recently been selected as one of only three people in the UK to be part of the Leaders Europe programme within the Obama Foundation.
St Peter’s CE Academy and St Peter’s Church in the Saltway Team have been awarded a silver Church and School Partnership Award recognising the close relationship between the church, school and local community.
This year’s Church of England Advent and Christmas theme focuses on the first and greatest Christmas gift of all: the gift of God being born as one of us in Jesus Christ.
An article from Archdeacon Mark for December editions of parish magazines.
The Muslim-Christian dialogue group in Lye, Stourbridge, arranged a litter pick on 31 October to clear up two local streets.
A new singing group for children will launch at St Peter’s Centre at Pedmore Church on 15 November, 10 years after Singing Angels originally began at St Andrew’s Church on the Straits.
Bishop Hugh visited Cropthorne with Charlton C of E First School on 3 November to share in their collective worship and meet with the children.
