Christian Aid Week 2024
Published: 9th April 2024This year, Christian Aid Week runs from 12 - 18 May - seven days, so many ways to make a difference.
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Thy Kingdom Come in 2024
Published: 8th April 2024Starting on Ascension Day (9 May) and running until Pentecost on 19 May is Thy Kingdom Come.
Celebrating Easter in the Brierley Hill team
Published: 4th April 2024The Brierley Hill team held a number of different services and activities to engage their community over the Easter weekend. Here, Licensed Lay Minister, Tracey Skidmore shares some of what happened.
Experience Easter in Worcester
Published: 28th March 2024St George’s and Claines churches in Worcester gave their local primary schools the opportunity to Experience Easter in an engaging way this year. Six stations were set up around the churches, which take the children through Holy Week, from Palm Sunday through to Easter Sunday.
Churches 'All Ears' for your ideas
Published: 27th March 2024Churches of the West Worcester Beacon are running a novel listening project, holding monthly Community Conversations to help them learn more about their communities.
Lent lunch raises funds for the Friends of the Holy Land
Published: 27th March 2024St Anne’s church in Wyre Piddle hosted a very happy lunch get-together last Thursday in their village hall in support of the Friends of the Holy Land.
40 people from our diocese receive Maundy Money
Published: 27th March 202440 people from across Worcestershire and Dudley received ‘Maundy Money’ from HM the Queen this morning in recognition of their exemplary Christian service to church and community over many years.
Partnership working enables new defibrillator
Published: 20th March 2024A new defibrillator has been installed on the outside of St Andrews church hall thanks to a joint project between St Andrew’s Church and Bridge Church Gornal as they seek to bless and serve their local community.
Hagley Music Festival
Published: 19th March 2024The Hagley Music Festival as been organised by the Church in Hagley since 2001 and has grown over the years! Read about why it started and how it's going!
Celebrating the ministry of women
Published: 15th March 20242024 marks 30 years since women were first ordained priest. A special service to celebrate the anniversary and all that has been achieved since then will be held at Pershore Abbey on Thursday 20 June at 7pm.
Car enthusiasts 'REVS' up for another year.
Published: 14th March 2024Do you have an interesting and well loved car that does not get driven enough? REVS is a Christian based group that has various meeting places in the West Midlands.
Being a Distinctive Deacon
Published: 13th March 2024Chris Sheehan is a Pioneer Minister in Evesham having been ordained six years ago. With a ministry focussed on working in the community, he decided to stay as a distinctive deacon rather than being ordained as a priest at the end of the first year of his curacy.
A time capsule in Malvern Priory
Published: 11th March 2024A time capsule has been placed underneath the new nave flooring in Malvern Priory.
Vocation Sunday - 21 April
Published: 7th March 2024Vocations Sunday takes place on 21 April in 2024.
New Rector of Ribbesford w Bewdley & Dowles & Wribbenhall
Published: 1st March 2024Bishop John has announced the appointment of the Revd Melissa Beynon as Rector of the benefice of Ribbesford w Bewdley & Dowles & Wribbenhall.
A leap day wedding!
Published: 29th February 2024St Mary’s Church in Madresfield was the setting for a leap day wedding on 29 February. The happy couple, Sophie and Steven Mason had waited for this date and worked with the church to have their wedding in Lent.
Grants to help with church repairs
Published: 29th February 2024Parishes will now be able to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to make repairs to their church buildings thanks to a new funding stream from the national church.
New Vicar of Claines & St George's Church, Worcester
Published: 23rd February 2024Bishop John has announced the appointment of The Revd Sarah Carwardine as Priest in Charge of the Benefice of Claines St John the Baptist and the Benefice of Worcester St George with St Mary Magdalene.
Marking Racial Justice Sunday in Bewdley
Published: 14th February 2024St Anne’s Church in Bewdley marked Racial Justice Sunday on 11 February. The recommended theme this year was migration, and the congregation prayed for the 100 million people displaced from their homes across the globe, roughly half of whom are children.
Surprises in Lent
Published: 9th February 2024An article for March editions of parish magazines from Stephen Edwards, Interim Dean of Worcester.
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Bishop Martin's Christmas Message
20th December 2024
Bishop Martin reflects on a poem by Howard Thurman in this year's Christmas message and explores how we can light candles in dark places as we pray for peace and hope.