The funeral of PC Andy Boardman from West Mercia Police took place at St Mary’s Church in Kidderminster yesterday. PC Boardman was aged just 43 when he died suddenly of…
PC Boardman was aged just 43 when he died suddenly of natural causes. He had served in both West Mercia and West Midlands Police forces as well as in the Royal Marines. He had most recently been based in Kidderminster and the funeral was led by the Revd Tim Williams, who is a volunteer Chaplain to Kidderminster Police Station. The Revd Dick Johnson, lead Chaplain for West Mercia Police preached on Ecclesiastes 3:1-10.
Over 350 people filled St Mary’s Church for the funeral, which was also live streamed on Zoom to around 50 people. It was attended by senior members of both police forces and there was a guard of honour as the coffin came into church.
Please do pray for PC Boardman’s family and friends. May he rest in peace.
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.
