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.
We have announced that Hugh Nelson, currently Bishop of St Germans in the Diocese of Truro will be our next Bishop of Worcester. On Tuesday 29 July, Bishop Hugh spent the day in the Diocese, getting to know some of our people and places.
Downing Street has announced that His Majesty the King has approved the appointment of Hugh Nelson as the 114th Bishop of Worcester.
A service to celebrate Learning Disability Week was held at Cookley Sports Club on 22 June at 3pm in conjunction with St Peter’s Church. Cookley.
A new half-hour monthly act of worship is taking place at St Kenelm’s Church in Clifton-on-Teme, with people of all ages gathering outside for Welly Church!
A thank you from the diocesan Morogoro Partnership Group for the £4,792.05 raised for the Morogoro Bible College Scholarship Fund in this year's Lent Appeal
The Diocesan Criminal Justice Affairs Group offers this bi-monthly prayer guide which we hope will be useful for personal and intercessory prayer in local parishes. This edition focusses on substance abuse.
Sue Adeney, NSM Minister and diocesan Eco Church lead, travelled to London this week to lobby her MP. She joined with approximately 5,000 people from across the country whose organisations were asking MPs to ‘act now, change forever’.
11 children from the Church of the Ascension CE Primary School in Wall Heath, Dudley have achieved the Archbishops’ Young Leaders Award. The children were presented with their certificates by Bishop Martin at a special collective worship in school.
Three additional stipendiary curates will be able to be recruited for 2026 thanks to new funding from the national church.
Richard Thorniley will retire at the end of this month after serving as Rector of Church Lench with Rous Lench & Abbots Morton & Harvington (the ARCH benefice) since 2001.
On Friday 20 June the Diocesan Education Team hosted their annual headteachers’ and senior leaders’ conference. This year, the conference was entitled: ‘Towards a Sustainable Future’ and was themed to inform our leaders and support them in their journey towards net zero carbon.
On Tuesday, Sian Morgan, Children, Youth and Families Minister in Kingswinford and Wall Heath, went to represent the Diocese at an afternoon tea at Lambeth Palace.
Bishop Martin is pleased to announce the appointment of The Revd Giles Joiner as Team Vicar in the Benefice of Gornal and Sedgley.
At the service to ordain priests last weekend, Bishop Martin and Bishop Bettina from the Evangelical Church of Central Germany recommitted to our partnership by signing a new partnership agreement.
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15th August 2025