Tardebigge parish launch monthly Forest cafe church
Last Updated: 3rd April 2025 | Published: 22nd October 2024Tardebigge parish have launched a new Forest Cafe church at St Bartholomew's that meets on the first Sunday of the month.
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New Children and Young People worker for Worcester South East Team
Last Updated: 3rd April 2025 | Published: 26th September 2024Debra Hill has been recruited as Children and Families Worker for the Worcester Southeast Team and St. Barnabas. Debra has lots of ideas and is very keen to get going. She hopes to see children’s ministry flourish at all the churches.
Support with introducing worship to social groups
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 30th July 2024Soulspace is a free resource available online that offers advice on how to gently introduce an optional worship element to established groups either before or after the main activity.
NWC learning pathway meets for second time
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 18th July 2024Last Friday night saw the second meeting of the Myriad learning community for leaders of New Worshipping Communities in the Diocese and their teams.
New Worshipping Communities Enabler Kim Brown visits Sanctuary Arts NWC
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 26th June 2024Kim Brown, New Worshipping Communities Enabler recently visited the Sanctuary Arts New Worshipping Community in Kempsey to interview ALM Kay Mason and find out more.
ISingPop Inspired New Worshipping Community
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 16th June 2024Many schools and parishes in our diocese enjoy iSingPop visiting for one-off events, bringing their dance routines and faith-based songs for the children to learn. NWC Enabler Kim Brown visited a church and school in Gloucestershire who have taken it further, creating a new worshipping community in the school hall.
West Worcester Beacon Benefice’s Three New Worshipping Communities
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 18th June 2024One of our four new priorities is to create 100 New Worshipping Communities by 2030. West Worcester Beacon have three New Worshipping Communities: Breakfast Church, Wild church and All Together.
The 3Ts New Worshipping Community in Brockmoor Reaches First Anniversary
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 22nd May 2024The 3Ts (Tea, Toast and Talk) is a New Worshipping Community that meets on the first Sunday of the month at St John’s Church in Brockmoor near Brierley Hill in the Greater Dudley deanery.
St Andrew’s Malvern children and families work thriving with 100 children
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 7th May 2024Children, youth and family work is thriving at St Andrew’s church in Malvern with over 100 children and young people on their books and over 50 attending most Sundays.
Flyfords Walking Church
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 29th April 2024A small group from the Flyfords group of Churches, just outside Pershore, met on 28 April for their first walking church.
‘Singing Angels’ singing group remastered by Curate Claire Cox
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 3rd April 2024Curate Claire Cox launched a new multigenerational singing group last month at Old Swinford Church in Stourbridge. This is the third time Claire has found success with her ‘Singing Angels’ format as a way to praise God and build community.
A focus on New Worshipping Communities
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 1st February 2024Last weekend saw the first meeting of a new learning community for leaders of new worshipping communities and their teams in parishes across the Diocese.
Introducing Beoley New Worshipping Community: Church at 4
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 6th December 2023Church @ 4 is a cafe style New Worshipping Community run by St Leonard’s Church in Beoley to the north-east of Redditch. It has been running since May and takes place monthly, at the YMCA Willow Trees Community Centre in Church Hill, Redditch.
New Worshipping Community ‘Create’ meets in Kempsey
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 23rd November 2023‘Create’ is an arts ministry facilitated by experienced artist, teacher and now LLM Kay Mason. ‘Create’ NWC meets at St Mary's Church in Kempsey, Worcester.
Engaging with care homes in Lapal
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 16th November 2023St Peter’s Church in Lapal, Halesowen has been reaching out to local care homes with two new worshipping communities.
New Worshipping Community in Worcester care home
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 30th October 2023Holy Trinity & St Matthew, Ronkswood has started a new worshipping community in a local care home, which they also plan to take to other venues in the local community.
Thriving Kingdom Arts in Worcester attracts attendees from Birmingham
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 19th September 2023Kingdom Arts, sometimes called 'Messy Church for adults' is a new worshipping community that has been running eight years at St Georges’ Church in Worcester.
New Worshipping Communities in Bromsgrove
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 5th May 2023On the last Saturday of each month, a group of people gather in St Godwald’s Church Hall on the edge of Bromsgrove for ‘Pizza and God’, the parish’s café church. This new worshipping community is one of a series of alternative opportunities to come together for worship across Bromsgrove.
School children encouraged to 'Gather' in church
Last Updated: 8th April 2025 | Published: 3rd March 2023Gather is a new partnership between a Church of England Primary School and their local church. It is a monthly act of worship immediately after school for children and their parents/ carers which uses elements with which the children will already be familiar from school.
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Kingswinford Parish Hosts Joyful iSingPOP Holiday Club
14th August 2025
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.