November & December Church Maintenance Tips
Published: 17th November 2025Your guide to maintenance jobs in your church during November and December from the Church Buildings Team.
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Sharing Hope in Redditch
Published: 14th November 2025Members of St Stephen’s Church in Redditch have been sharing hope in different locations across Redditch, offering people free tea and coffee and a chance to talk about faith and about anything which might be worrying them.
Celebrating joy, creativity and community with iSingPop and Café Church
Published: 14th November 2025Gail Rogers, Vicar of Beoley and Alvechurch explains how an iSingPop workshop in the local first school resulted in a joyful Café Church with 27 children attending.
Joyful Light Trail event for families in Claines
Published: 13th November 2025Claines played host to a joyful family ‘Light Trail’ during the half term holiday, which ninety people participated in. Ten households in Claines decorated their homes as “light stops,” each displaying a word that formed part of a Bible verse, for participants to unscramble.
Diocesan Small Churches Choir
Published: 11th November 2025At the celebration service for small churches service held in the Cathedral last May, a number of singers expressed a wish to be able to sing together more often. Mark and Linda Blackwell from Fladbury (Nr Evesham) felt called to use their experience to try to set up a choir made up from singers from the small churches across the Diocese to sing at occasional services at Worcester and other cathedrals.
Remembrance: Who is my neighbour?
Published: 10th November 2025At the Remembrance Sunday service in the Cathedral, Bishop Martin preached on the question asked of Jesus: 'Who is my Neighbour?' He has written an opinion piece for local media based on that sermon.
Please pray for the COP30 Climate Conference
Published: 10th November 2025Climate COP30 begins in earnest today, 10 November and runs to 21 November in Belim in Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon. An Anglican delegation is attending led by Archbishop Marinez of Brazil.
Partnership with iSingPOP has successful first year
Published: 6th November 2025Parishes across the Diocese working with Kirsty Pierson from iSingPOP this year, have reported how much this support has helped them reach new families and children. We hope it will be possible to extend the pilot to see how this initial success can be further embedded and built on.
Claines Church to launch new ‘Bubble Church’ service thanks to grant funding
Published: 6th November 2025In January 2026 Claines Church, will be launching a new and exciting church service for children called ‘Bubble Church’. This has been made possible thanks to a grant from the ‘Healthier Churches Fund’.
Cascades of Poppies on churches for Remembrance
Published: 3rd November 2025Churches across Worcestershire and Dudley are marking Remembrance Day with stunning displays of knitted and crocheted poppies, often stretching down the tower or from the roof of the church.
A Cross of Community and Hope
Published: 3rd November 2025At St Thomas’ Church in Stourbridge, members of ‘Chewsday Church’ have recently unveiled a large cross, intentionally crafted with a rough and imperfect surface to reflect the brokenness of our world.
Please pray for our partner dioceses
Published: 2nd November 2025Two of our partner dioceses, Peru and Morogoro (Tanzania) have recently been experiencing political turbulence and need our prayers.
New Rector of Pedmore and Wollescote
Published: 31st October 2025Bishop Martin as Acting Bishop of Worcester has announced the appointment of the Revd Claire Cox as Rector of the Benefice of Pedmore and Wollescote.
Refurbishing Harvington rectory
Published: 30th October 2025The clergy housing team have recently worked on Harvington Rectory following the departure of the Rector there after 24 years in post. The team had just three months to prepare the house before the new Rector and his family moved in.
Bromsgrove Spire restoration completed
Published: 30th October 2025The long-awaited restoration of the landmark spire at St John’s Church in Bromsgrove has been completed, with the re-gilded weathervane cockerel returning to its lofty perch to enjoy the view for decades to come,
New Children and Families Worker for St Peter’s Bengeworth
Published: 29th October 2025Former primary school teacher Emily Holmes has recently joined St Peter’s Bengeworth in Evesham as ‘Children and Families Worker’. Emily is keen to bring more families into church and has a real heart for creating neurodiverse-friendly spaces where all children feel safe and valued.
Silver Church & School Partnership Award presented
Published: 22nd October 2025Red Hill CE Primary and St Martin’s Church, London Road, Worcester have received a silver Church and School Partnership Award. It was presented to them by Archdeacon Mark and Diocesan Director of Education, Tim Reid in a special service in the church.
Challenges facing the Police
Published: 21st October 2025Criminal Justice Affairs Group Prayer Guide for October 2025
New Chair of the West Midlands Racial Justice Regional Board
Published: 18th October 2025The West Midlands Racial Justice Initiative (WMRJI) has announced the appointment of Dawn Brathwaite as the new Chair of the Regional Board, succeeding Dean Andrew Zihni.
Exploring the mission opportunities of new housing
Published: 17th October 2025Clergy and others gathered at St Helen’s Church in Worcester for a day on exploring the mission opportunities of new housing developments. Speakers spoke about the process that new developments go through, how churches can get involved and different ways in which churches can come alongside those in new homes and help to build community.
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November & December Church Maintenance Tips
17th November 2025
Your guide to maintenance jobs in your church during November and December from the Church Buildings Team.