Welcome to your page, we wanted you to be able to enjoy being in church and so have created this page just for you. Each week we will put up…
Each week we will put up interactive children’s resources for you to engage with using your phone or tablet, we will have different levels of difficulty for most of the activities, do whichever ones you fancy. You should also find the Bible passage being used as the idea for the activities and an explanation for you to help you think about what God might want you to do this coming week. So click on the link below for this week (or any other), read the Bible passage and the explanation and then decide, do you want to do Easy, Medium or Hard – the choice is yours – Enjoy!
Parishes can download a QR code to use in orders of service to help make it easier for people to access this page on the website. They can scan the code using the camera app on their smart device.
Guardians of Ancora is a world-class digital game – an amazing virtual world that 8- to 11 year-olds can enter, and a place where the Bible stories come alive. We ask that if you use this app in church you must wear earphones or have the sound off. Oh and also check with the person who owns the device that you can use their data!
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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.
