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Community garden at Families@4 in Ipsley

Published: 14th May 2026

Families@4 is a new worshipping community at St Peter’s Church in Ipsley. Throughout 2026, they decided to theme their programme around learning about God’s creation and have created a garden in which the children and their families are growing vegetables and flowers.

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Vineyard prayer walk for Rogation

Published: 14th May 2026

People from across the Muddy Boots Rural Mission Area, as well as members of the Chaplaincy for Agriculture and Rural Life, gathered at Abberley Hills Vineyard last week for a prayer walk to mark Rogation.

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Church bells welcomed by school children

Published: 11th May 2026

New church bells arrived at Grade 1 listed Elmley Castle Church this morning, welcomed by the village as well as children from Elmley Castle CE First School.

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Celebrating 70 years at St John’s choir in Bromsgrove

Published: 11th May 2026

While the world has traded vinyl records for streaming and telegrams for smartphones, Dave Banner has continued to sing in the choir of St John’s Church in Bromsgrove. On 10 May Dave celebrated 70 years as a chorister at the church!

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Giving thanks for faithful service

Published: 10th May 2026

An article for June editions of parish magazines, from the Archdeacon of Worcester, Mark Badger.

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Bookkeeping service for parishes

Published: 7th May 2026

The finance team at the diocesan office now offers a bookkeeping service for parishes. It is hoped that this will be particularly useful for those churches who have treasurers wishing to retire or inexperienced treasurers who might need some support taking on the role, particularly with the legal aspects.


'Clipping' Whittington Church

Published: 6th May 2026

On Friday 1 May children from Key Stage 2 at Whittington CE Primary School gathered in the grounds of Whittington Church, stopping at various places to pray for our church and community.

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Bishop Hugh's art competition for schools

Published: 5th May 2026

Students in Church Schools across the Diocese are being encouraged to get creative and enter our new diocesan art competition.

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Dudley churches support the consecration of Bishop James Treasure

Published: 3rd May 2026

Over 90 people from Dudley churches made their way down to St Paul’s Cathedral last Friday to support former Rector of Dudley, James Treasure as he was consecrated as Bishop of St Germans in the Diocese of Truro.

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Community celebration in Whittington

Published: 30th April 2026

Whittington CE Primary School and the Church of St Philip and St James in Whittington have come together for a community celebration day. There were activities for the children at both the church and the school throughout the day and parents were invited to come in and take part alongside their children.

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Alpha Youth in Redditch

Published: 30th April 2026

St Stephen’s Church in Redditch has recently been running Alpha Youth alongside their adult Alpha course. 28 young people have been taking part ranging from age 10 to 17.

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Creativity for Belonging: 10 parish actions for racial justice

Published: 30th April 2026

Inspired by the UN World Creativity and Innovation day on 21 April, the West Midlands Racial Justice Initiative offers 10 practical ideas for parishes.

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Award for Café Chad in Kidderminster

Published: 29th April 2026

Café Chad at St Chad’s Church in Kidderminster has been given a ‘No Barriers’ Award for its work to ensure the café is a warm and welcoming space for all in the community.

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2026 National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast

Published: 29th April 2026

Tim Farron MP and the Christians in Parliament APPG invite all clergy in the Diocese to ask their MP to accompany them to the 2026 National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast.

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Chris Smith appointed to St Mark's Church in Pensnett

Published: 26th April 2026

Bishop Hugh has announced the appointment of the Revd Chris Smith as Curate in Charge (to be Priest in Charge) of the Benefice of St Mark, Pensnett.

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Making use of the Cornerstone grants database

Published: 24th April 2026

Grace Wrigglesworth, Operations Manager at Kingswinford and Wall Heath has used the Church of England’s grant database on the Cornerstone platform to raise £100k for their two churches in the past two years.

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Best Eco Churchyard competition

Published: 24th April 2026

This year the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) is celebrating its Centenary Anniversary and to mark the occasion CPRE Worcestershire is launching a competition to find the county's Best Eco Churchyard.

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Upton teenager wins preaching prize

Published: 16th April 2026

Solomon Unwin from Upton on Severn parish was this year’s winner of the Premier Unbelievable and Spring Harvest Youth Preaching Prize for Skegness.

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Longstanding PCC member at Upton Snodsbury steps down

Published: 16th April 2026

This year’s APCM at St Kenelm’s Church in Upton Snodsbury marked an historic moment! For the first time in over 60 years, Betty Turgoose was not present because, after serving on the PCC for the majority of her life, Betty had resigned.

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Ordinations 2026

Published: 13th April 2026

This year’s ordinations will take place over the weekend of 27 & 28 June. All are welcome to come and support the candidates, but please let us know if you will be robing.

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Stuart Currie to retire

15th May 2026

Bishop’s Chaplain, Stuart Currie will be retiring from his role at the end of August. Stuart joined our diocese in 1994 as Vicar of St Stephen’s Church in Worcester and for the past ten years has been Bishop’s Chaplain to both Bishop John and Bishop Hugh.

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