The Diocesan Mailing is produced every two weeks and contains news, training opportunities and events from around the diocese and wider Church of England. The Training Mailing is produced every month and is a round up of upcoming training opportunities around the diocese.
Over 120 church school leaders from the Diocese of Worcestercame together for the annual Headteachers and Senior Leaders Conference, heldat Stanbrook Abbey on Friday 19 October. The theme of Good Mental Health andWell-being for All, provided delegate
St Mary's Church in Kempsey and St James the Great Church in Norton have both received funding to enable biodiversity projects to take place in their churchyards and the surrounding areas. St Mary's, Kempsey has received 8,471of funding from the
An announcement from the Bishop.
An announcement from the Bishop.
You can take your churchcollection by contactless card this Christmas!As less and less people carrycash, its becoming increasingly important for parishes to look at alternativeways to receive donations. Theres a new category on the Parish Buying webs
Barbara Price, member of All Saints, Sedgley has spent hourscataloguing and researching 294 soldiers who died in the First World War fromthe local area. She now has individual profiles on all the men who died and hasvisited many of the graves in Engl
Today is World Toilet Day, which is about taking action toensure that everyone has a safe toilet by 2030. Over 62% of people around theworld dont have access to safe sanitation with 4.5 billion living withoutaccess to a safe toilet.As churches work t
A new cookbook israising funds for Mission Morogoro, a Worcestershire based charity whichsupports projects in our partner diocese of Morogoro in Tanzania, East Africa. In 2016 astorm devastated the church building in Tunguli, a village in Morogo
RobertHigham has asked us to pass on his thanks related to his retirement last monthas Diocesan Secretary. He writes: Thank you to all who were involved inmarking my retirement whether at the Cathedral, at events in the DiocesanOffice or in
Thousands gathered in Worcester on RemembranceSunday to mark the exact centenary of the Armistice at the eleventh hour of theeleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. I have to confess that I wasabsent. Not I hasten to add, because I was nervous of
Many of our churches commemorated 100 years since the end of the First World War on Sunday. Here's what happened at St. John in Bedwardine Church in Worcester. Being the 100th Centenary of the end of the Great War (World War 1), members of the c
A total of 703,209 was received by DoWMAT and was used to complete projects including fire safety work, the replacement of structural features and cloakroom refurbishments. The majority of projects were completed over the summer break, with the remai
If your church uses floral foam for flower arranging ('oasis'), please consider the environmental impact:1. FLORAL FOAM IS PLASTIC. Because of itscellular foam structure, it very easily crumbles into microscopic fragments, addingto the g
A small group from our diocese are currently on a visit to our friends in the Diocese of Peru. Here you can read more about what they're doing. On Saturday 10 November, Phil Bradford and Doug Chaplin write:A six hour bus journey from Perus secon
TheChristian faith is essentially about love because God is love.AtChristmas we celebrate Gods love for us in coming to share our human life inthe person of Jesus. At Easter we celebrate the depths of that love in dyingfor us, and its triumph over d
An article on the chaplaincy at HMP Long Lartin by Anglican Chaplain, Stephen Blake.
Why not #FollowtheStar this Christmas?
The Children and Youth Councils are bringing Christmas Cheer to the streets of Worcester.
Astley CE Primary School have marked the centenary of the end ofWorld War One with a poppy installation of their own.Children in Stay and Play and Elm Class have been busyrecently turning the bottom of plastic bottles into poppies. These were thendis
As we approach the winter months, Church Buildings Officer,Mark Carter offers some advice about things to focus on as you care for yourchurch building.Clear leavesAutumn means that leaves are falling from trees andgathering in places where they could
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26th June 2025