Gifts for Perry Wood Primary School
Published: 21st April 2023Just before Easter, Holy Trinity and St Matthew’s Church in Ronkswood gave gifts to the children in Years 2 & 3 at Perry Wood Primary School.
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Faith through Films resource
Published: 19th April 2023Faith through films is the latest resource from the Calling Young Disciples team, which uses different films to explore a theme linked to a bible passage.
Silver Eco Award for St Anne’s Church in Bewdley
Published: 18th April 2023Bishop Martin recently visited St Anne’s Church in Bewdley where he was able to present the church its silver Eco Church Award!
Are you using the free Life Events Diary?
Published: 12th April 2023The Life Events Diary is offered free to CoE churches and is an online administration tool to help streamline the administration of baptism, weddings, banns, and funerals.
Kidderminster Churchwarden receives Maundy Money
Published: 11th April 2023Michael Gough from Stone Church near Kidderminster was among 74 people to receive ‘Maundy Money’ from HM the King in recognition of their exemplary Christian service to church and community over many years.
Interactive treasure trail around Malvern
Published: 3rd April 2023St Andrews and All Saints Churches in Malvern have developed a free interactive treasure hunt around the town and hills, which can be completed any time between 1 and 17 April.
Messages of hope this Eastertime
Published: 1st April 2023This year's Easter messages from our bishops remind us that the Easter story always gives us hope in a difficult world.
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Exploring Holy Week through art
Published: 31st March 2023Many of our clergy have been going into schools this week to talk about Easter. Gary Crellin, Vicar of Powick, Guarlford & Madresfield with Newland has used an original piece of artwork to explore the story in a completely different way!
Telling bible stories through Playmobil
Published: 30th March 2023During lockdown, curate Julia Quinn was keen to find a way of continuing to connect with people, so began recording short films of bible stories using Playmobil.
Transformation Programme Director appointed
Published: 29th March 2023Damian Herbert has been appointed as the new Transformation Programme Director for the Diocese, replacing Rob Quarton who will be retiring at the end of April.
Reconsidering the Easter Lily
Published: 28th March 2023Have you considered the environmental impact of using lilies in church floral displays this Easter? The Sustainable Church Flower movement are arguing it's time to make a change.
New book of the Dean's sermons
Published: 27th March 2023To mark his retirement later in 2023, Sacristy Press are publishing a collection of 50 sermons preached by the Dean, Peter Atkinson over the past 30 years.
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Paying Ministry Share in a rural benefice
Published: 24th March 2023In 2022, the benefice of Church Lench w Rous Lench & Abbots Morton & Harvington managed to pay their Ministry Share in full, helped with a grant from the Ministry Support Fund. Read more about their story.
National Church commits significant long-term funding to our diocese
Published: 17th March 2023The national church has agreed in principle to allocate significant funding to our diocese over the next seven years, investing in our plans to grow as Kingdom People and supporting the priorities agreed by the Diocesan Synod.
Rich Johnson becomes National Leader of New Wine
Published: 17th March 2023Rich Johnson, Vicar of All Saints in Worcester is to be the new National Leader of New Wine, a network of evangelical churches in England. Rich will take on the role from May. He will be seconded to New Wine for 45% of his time while continuing to work in our Resourcing Church for the other 55%.
Diocese joins ACAT
Published: 15th March 2023The Diocese has become a member of the Association of Church Accountants and Treasurers (ACAT), enabling treasurers to join ACAT at no cost to their parish and access their range of advice.
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Impact of Ministry Share on Netherton Church
Published: 13th March 2023The Forge group of churches are in a highly populated but very deprived area, with parishioners in the bottom 10% of the country economically. However, during 2022 they were able to considerably increase their income, helped in part by the move to Ministry Share.
Diocesan Holy Land Pilgrimage
Published: 13th March 2023During February, Bishops John and Martin led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Watch a film of some of the pilgrims sharing their thoughts on the experience.
School children encouraged to 'Gather' in church
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.
Book of Prayer published ahead of coronation
Published: 1st March 2023The Church of England is calling for a period of prayer leading up to the Coronation and has released a book of Daily Prayers for the Coronation of King Charles III. There is also now a page on the Church of England's website with resources for churches.
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Reflecting on the Health and Sustainability Conversations
31st July 2025
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.