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Lottery success for Top Church, Dudley

Published: 10th December 2018

In its 200th year,Top Church in Dudley has been awarded 106,000 of initial National Lotterysupport* to enable the Church of St Thomas and St Luke at the top of DudleyHigh Street to continue with its plans to conserve the historical elements ofthe bui


Diocesan Office switch to Parish Buying's Energy Basket

Published: 6th December 2018

Like the majority of our churches, the diocesan officebuilding in Worcester is not easy to heat and its important to find the bestcost for our gas and electricity while remaining true to our commitment tousing sustainable energy sources.Using the Ene


Bishop Graham visits Top Church, Dudley

Published: 18th January 2019

The new Sunday afternoon service at Top Church was busy lastSunday as a visit from Bishop Graham brought worshippers together from both themorning service and afternoon gathering. In a time of worship, Bishop Grahamwas interviewed by Vicar James Trea


St James', Norton receives a grant to help local school children

Published: 26th November 2018

The PCC of St James' Church in Norton Juxta Kempsey, just outside of Worcester, has beensuccessful in securing a grant of 9,800 from Heritage Lottery Fund Awards forAll to support the Benefices early intervention mentoring work in localschools. Over


Letter from Archdeacon of Worcester

Published: 6th December 2018

We live in tumultuouspolitical times, so much so that many people are literally switching off fromTV and radio news. It does indeed seem that megaphone diplomacy, which, ofcourse, is no diplomacy at all, is playing a bigger part in our publicdiscours


Christmas Tree Festivals 2018

Published: 6th December 2018

Evergreentrees represent life in the cold and dark of winter, whilst their adorningornaments symbolise parts of the Nativity story and Jesus Christ as the lightof the world.St Peter, CradleyThisyear, St Peters Church, Cradley, are hosting their first


Plough Sunday 2019

Published: 6th December 2018

Plough Sunday is on 13 January in 2019


More lottery support for St John, Brockmoor

Published: 4th December 2018

St Johns Church in Brockmoor has received agrant for 10,000 from the National Lottery Big Lottery Fund to makeimprovements to the building.Thanks to National Lottery players, work can goahead to improve toilet facilities at the Grade II listed buildi


New Director of Music at the Cathedral

Published: 2nd December 2018

The chapter of WorcesterCathedral is delighted to announce the appointment of Samuel Hudson as organistand director of music at Worcester Cathedral.Sam has been the director ofmusic at Blackburn Cathedral since 2011, where he is also the artistic dir


New Safeguarding Independent Chair appointed

Published: 13th August 2019

Geoff will work closely with our Diocesan Safeguarding Advisers as well as other external bodies to ensure safeguarding in the diocese is as effective as possible and subject to robust and independent scrutiny.The Chair of the Safeguarding Advisory P


Thinking stewardship at Christmas time

Published: 29th November 2018

Christmas is all about giving, but how many ofus stop to think about the reasons why we give and how it relates to our faith?For Christians, the surprise of Christmas is thebaby being born, in poverty and in exile, but too often that baby gets lostbe


Over 185 shoe boxes collected in Powick, Callow End, Madresfield and Guarlford

Published: 29th November 2018

Over 185 Christmas shoeboxes have been filled by school children and others in Powick, Callow End, Madresfield and Guarlford to be given to Teams4U, a Wrexham based charity thatdelivers filled shoes boxes collected all across the country for Chr


New Finance Manager of the DoWMAT

Published: 29th November 2018

Claire Rushton took up her post as the new Finance Manager of theDiocese of Worcester Multi Academy Trust (DoWMAT) on Monday 5thNovember, this year. Claire joins the DoWMAT from Pershore High School, where shespent 13 years, progressing from School F


Hugh Burton to become Team Rector in Dudley

Published: 18th November 2018

An announcement from the Bishop.


Fabulous Festive Fayre - and a New Organ Too!

Published: 27th November 2018

Fabulous Festive Fayre - and a New Organ Too!


All Saints resourcing church launch

Published: 27th November 2018

All Saints was packed on Sunday morning as the congregationgathered to officially launch the church as one of two resourcing churches inthe Diocese of Worcester. As aresourcing church, All Saints will receive investment of 2.2m thanks to agrant from


New Chairs of the Diocesan Synod 'Houses'

Published: 27th November 2018

At the first meeting of the new Diocesan Synod last week, newChairs for the Houses of Clergy and Laity were appointed.Hugh Richards from Chaddesley Corbett will head up the House ofLaity and the Revd Claire Lording from Pershore has become Chair of t


Young people spread Christmas cheer in Worcester!

Published: 4th December 2018

Members of our Children's and Youth Councils headed to Worcester last Saturday to spread someChristmas cheer at the start of Advent.In small groups, the young people aged from 8 to 14 offeredto pay for the parking of shoppers in the city centre and w


Worcester Diocesan Synod

Published: 22nd November 2018

"If Diocesan Synod were not to exist there really would be no forum where we could make decisions, reflect upon, and think about wider issues." (Bishop John)The video can be downloaded from Vimeo or if you'd like it as a DVD to show at your chur


A new children's choir in Leigh

Published: 22nd November 2018

A new childrens choir has been started in the church ofLeigh, Southwest of Worcester in the Worcestershire West Rural Team.Animato childrens choir is not explicitly a church choirbut was set up by a member of Leigh Church, Claire Jaggers, as a way of

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Melissa Rose: 10 years of being an LLM

15th May 2025

Melissa Rose is a Reader or Licensed Lay Minister (LLM) in Dudley. She was one of our first LLMs to be trained at Queen’s Theological college and was licensed in September 2015.

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