Churches across Worcestershire and Dudley are opening their doors for this year’s Heritage Open Days with a range of activities for all ages and a chance to discover the story behind our historic churches and the communities they serve.
Do you want to deepen your church’s ongoing commitment to justice, and help to overcome some challenges facing your community? One possible step would be to sign up for Church Action on Poverty Sunday, which takes place on 19 October.
St John’s Church stepped in to host the Halesowen Uniform Exchange during the school holidays, after the usual venue had become unavailable at short notice.
On the morning of Thursday 21 August St Johns church in Halesowen hosted a special session of what has come to be known as 'Donut Club' to support local year 11s who were collecting their GSCE results.
This Season of Creation, churches across the country are making the Great Switch to a green tariff - and we’d love you to be a part of it.
Rosie Venner is a member of St Martin’s Church, London Road Worcester and is also Director of Movement Building at The JustMoney Movement, a national Christian Charity which works towards a fairer, greener world.
We have been made aware that the external organisation that we use for DBS checks (APCS) has had a significant data breach and information found on documents used to check identification has been compromised (names/ addresses/ passport details etc).
Children from Wyre Forest West Churches have enjoyed a summer activity day on the theme of Kingdom Builders (based on the Roots Kingdom Builders Holiday Club resource).
Bishop Martin has announced the appointment of The Revd Richard Wood as Curate in Charge of St Nicholas, Warndon in Worcester.
Jayne Parker recently spent several days at the Diocesan Office on a curacy placement, gaining insight into the behind-the-scenes work that supports the life of the Church.
ITV Central News visited All Saints Worcester's 6pm service on Sunday 17th August to interview young members of the congregation and Rev Rich Johnson about 'The Quiet Revival', that is the research data that shows that more young adults are coming to church!
In this short film Paul Wilcox from West Worcester Beacon Benefice shares how their three New Worshipping Communities have led to the growth of their main congregation at Hallow.
The Diocesan Church Buildings Team recently visited St John's church in Bromsgrove where works are underway to replace, restore and repoint parts of its Spire.
Church run charity Community Link on Cradley Heath high street run a Uniform Bank in the school summer holidays where they give out second-hand school uniform for free. The charity report hundreds of families now use the service.
Churches across the UK are invited to celebrate Disability Awareness Sunday on 28 September 2025 by the Christian Disability charity ‘Through the Roof’ who are offering free resources via their website.
During the first week of August, Kingswinford parish hosted an exciting iSingPOP holiday club at St Mary’s Church featuring iSingPops catchy worship tunes and dance moves. The club proved hugely popular, with attendance peaking at 53 children.
Since launching as a renewal church, the congregation at St Stephen’s Church in Redditch has already doubled in size and some of the funding they have received from the national church is being used to build a core team which will help support continued growth.
St Mary’s Church in Hanley Castle, just outside Upton on Severn in the south of our diocese has become the first church in the Diocese to achieve a gold Eco Church award, which was recently confirmed following a visit from the A Rocha assessment team!
After a short wait of just 150 years the congregation of Holy Trinity, Trimpley is celebrating having a toilet! The new facility was blessed by Bishop Martin at a celebration service last month.
Over the past couple of months, members of the diocesan and deanery teams have met with representatives of every church in our Diocese for a 45-minute conversation on the church’s current missional and financial health.
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4th September 2025