The Diocesan Mailing is produced every two weeks and contains news, training opportunities and events from around the diocese and wider Church of England. The Training Mailing is produced every month and is a round up of upcoming training opportunities around the diocese.
2026 is 800 years since the death of St Francis. To mark this anniversary, Franciscans are planning a pilgrimage which will begin in Almouth and finish in London, visiting all the Franciscan houses - it will come through our diocese in August and they'd love people to join them!
Our diocese hosts a group whose focus is criminal justice. The group offers a faith perspective on criminal justice matters and raises awareness of the issues. CJAG offers this bi-monthly prayer guide which we hope will be useful for personal and intercessory prayer in local parishes. May's prayers focus on those serving an indeterminate sentence.
Licensed Lay Ministers from across the Diocese gathered at Holland House this weekend for a chance to learn together, support one another and socialise.
Jackson Brown, age 12, is trying to visit all the Anglican Cathedrals in England and is jumping for joy outside each one! He is sharing photos of his jumps on his ‘Cathedral Jumping’ Instagram account.
Last week Bishop Hugh met with our diocesan network of paid Children and Young People Ministers to listen to and encourage them.
Bishop’s Chaplain, Stuart Currie will be retiring from his role at the end of August. Stuart joined our diocese in 1994 as Vicar of St Stephen’s Church in Worcester and for the past ten years has been Bishop’s Chaplain to both Bishop John and Bishop Hugh.
Families@4 is a new worshipping community at St Peter’s Church in Ipsley. Throughout 2026, they decided to theme their programme around learning about God’s creation and have created a garden in which the children and their families are growing vegetables and flowers.
Peter Carmody-Heaton is a pioneer priest who has been working in a new role as a Community Missioner primarily for The Forge Group, to help bring people to faith.
People from across the Muddy Boots Rural Mission Area, as well as members of the Chaplaincy for Agriculture and Rural Life, gathered at Abberley Hills Vineyard last week for a prayer walk to mark Rogation.
Bishop Hugh enjoyed a tour of Pershore and Evesham deanery yesterday, as he continues to get to know the churches and communities of our diocese.
New church bells arrived at Grade 1 listed Elmley Castle Church this morning, welcomed by the village as well as children from Elmley Castle CE First School.
While the world has traded vinyl records for streaming and telegrams for smartphones, Dave Banner has continued to sing in the choir of St John’s Church in Bromsgrove. On 10 May Dave celebrated 70 years as a chorister at the church!
An article for June editions of parish magazines, from the Archdeacon of Worcester, Mark Badger.
The CEO of Friends of the Holy Land, Brendan Metcalf will be coming to speak at St Andrew’s Church in Ombersley on Monday 8 June at 7pm.
The finance team at the diocesan office now offers a bookkeeping service for parishes. It is hoped that this will be particularly useful for those churches who have treasurers wishing to retire or inexperienced treasurers who might need some support taking on the role, particularly with the legal aspects.
On Friday 1 May children from Key Stage 2 at Whittington CE Primary School gathered in the grounds of Whittington Church, stopping at various places to pray for our church and community.
Students in Church Schools across the Diocese are being encouraged to get creative and enter our new diocesan art competition.
Saltmine Theatre company delivered interactive performances to pupils at five schools in diocese of Worcester last week to help bring the bible to life and make it fun, memorable and accessible to the primary aged children.
Over 90 people from Dudley churches made their way down to St Paul’s Cathedral last Friday to support former Rector of Dudley, James Treasure as he was consecrated as Bishop of St Germans in the Diocese of Truro.
Whittington CE Primary School and the Church of St Philip and St James in Whittington have come together for a community celebration day. There were activities for the children at both the church and the school throughout the day and parents were invited to come in and take part alongside their children.
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19th May 2026