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.
ChristianAid is urging churches to support an appeal offeringa lifeline to those impacted by torrential rain, floods and landslides thathave displaced millions of people across India, Bangladesh and Nepal.Minoritycommunities, such as those belonging
31st March is Mothering Sunday.
On Thursday 1 August, threemen will be taking to the river Avon in a rowing boat to complete a 24.5 milerow from Stratford upon Avon to Cropthorne, just outside Evesham.They will be completing thissponsored row to raise money for our diocesan retreat
In June, churchwardens at St Marys church in Oldswinfordnoticed a problem with the gutters and wanted to find a solution.They immediately turned to MaintenanceBooker,the new website which makes caring for churches much easier.Using MaintenanceBooker
Worcester Cathedral has been shortlisted as one of five potential venues for Tim Peakes Soyuz Spacecraft to beexhibited later this year. It is an exciting prospect to be able to host such asignificant piece of modern national history in a vastly cont
An announcement from the Bishop.
The Bishop of Dudley, Graham Usher, left the diocese at the weekend to become the Bishop of Norwich. Two celebrations were held in Worcester and Dudley to reflect the role Bishop Graham has played throughout the whole diocese.
An announcement from the Bishop.
Diane Reeves has been appointed as Strategic ProgrammeManager in the diocesan office. Funded through a grant from the ArchbishopsCouncil, Diane will help manage our programme of projects in our four priorityareas under the Kingdom People vision: chil
This year's lent course from the Church of England will be #LiveLent- Let your light shine. It is a Lenten journey through the Gospel of John, offering ashort daily reading, a pause for reflection and prayer and a challenge toact,with a focus on
​An Announcement from the Bishop.
The organisers of Battles Over, a national andinternational event marking the armistice, wants to see more than 1,000churches and cathedrals participate by ringing their bells simultaneously at7.05pm on the night of November 11th 2018.Pageantmaster B
StJohns Church in Brockmoor has received a grant for 176,100 from the HeritageLottery Fund (HLF) to carry out vital repairs and improvements to the building.Thanksto the National Lottery, work can go ahead to repair the roof, brickwork andstonework,
This year, Fairtrade Fortnight runs from Monday 26 February until Sunday 11 March.
Racial Justice Sunday is on 18 February.
Worcester Mayor Steve Mackay will host a Holocaust Memorial Day event in the Guildhall on Saturday 27 January at 10.30am.
Acts 2.41-47 and Luke10.25-37In recent weeks the most common question that Ive been askedhas been, What will you miss about being bishop of Dudley? So here are my topten things:The warmth of the people.Slow cooked grey paysand bacon.The tell you dire
I did a calculation last week about howmuch time I have a spent on the M5 in the last five and a bit years. I workedit out as 858 hours, plus or minus a few hours. Thats just over five weeks.Thats five weeks of my life that Im never going to get back
Do you,like me, love to see people of all ages growing in faith and enjoying the loveof God?One ofour four priorities within the Kingdom People vision is to increase ourengagement with children, young people and their families across thediocese. Our
The Legions Biggest ever membership event marking 90 years since the Great Pilgrimage of 1928. A decade after the end of WW1, veterans and war widows visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres before marching to the Menin Gate.On 8 August 2018,
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