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Tardebigge and Bentley Parish Magazine Photo by M Stafford by Photo ‘ Sarah Feeding Sheep at the Rogation Service at St
’ Tardebigge and Bentley Parish Magazine Photo by M Stafford by Photo ‘ Sarah feeding sheep at the Rogation Service at St. Mary’s, Lower Bentley’ Lower Bentley’ Mary’s, at St. Rogation Service at the sheep ‘ Sarah feeding June 2019 - £1 www.tardebiggechurch.org.uk Church Services Sunday 2nd June (Easter 7) 9.30am Café Church in the Church Hall 11.00am Traditional Morning Prayer 6.00pm Traditional Holy Communion Sunday 9th June (Pentecost) 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am Traditional Holy Communion at St. Mary’s 11.00am Family Service at St. Bartholomew’s 6.00pm Evensong Sunday 16th June (Trinity Sunday) 11.00am Holy Communion with Sunday Funday 6.00pm Evensong Sunday 23rd June (Trinity 1) 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am Worship For ALL 11.00am Traditional Holy Communion 6.00pm Evensong Sunday 30th June (Trinity 2) 11.00am Family Communion 6.00pm ‘Songs of Praise’ at St. Mary’s Songs of Praise Sunday June 29th 6.00pm St Mary’s, Lower Bentley, B60 4JA To request your favourite hymn, please contact Roger Powell Phone 07971 888776 [email protected] From Richard, the Team Rector June is a very bright time of year, full of flowers, featuring our longest day of the year. We are creatures of light, so it is an especial pleasure to be able to go out and enjoy the sunshine, wake up in daylight and delight in the gradual sunsets and long period of twilight that follows late into the evening. It is important to remember Jesus at this time of year, not just because Pentecost (Whit) and Trinity fall in June, but because his ministry was all about bringing light into dark places. -
November 2017 - £1 1
Picture “Gladys Price’s Flower Arrangement” by Jane Hall Email:[email protected]. November 2017 - £1 www.tardebiggechurch.org.uk 1 2 From Richard, the Team Rector As we reach November it is inevitable that our thoughts edge towards Christmas. What an enormous festival it has become! There is no religious event in the worldwide calendar that attracts such a wide amount of participation. You may already be signed up for Christmas meals, outings or shopping trips, and some of us will have a good idea as to who from our family and friends will be receiving a visit from us, and which ones will be paying us a seasonal visit. It is also inevitable that Christmas celebrations will be undertaken with varying degrees of respect to the fact that it is a Christian festival, although not our most important one. Christmas is inspiring because of the talk of peace and goodwill; it is fun because it is a celebration, and it is commercial because we exchange cards and presents. It is a way for people who don’t see each other very often to catch up, and there is nothing sinister or threatening about a baby in a manger, especially as we usually surround the crib with a host of cute and fluffy farmyard animals. Meanwhile, we have other remembrances; we celebrate parliamentary democracy on Bonfire Night; we mourn those we have lost on All Saints’ Sunday, also on November 5th this year; the following Sunday is Remembrance Sunday itself; then it’s only a fortnight to “Stir Up Sunday”, the Sunday before Advent, when the collect – “Stir up O Lord the will of thy faithful people…” - reminded generations of cooks to stir up the ingredients for their Christmas puddings, etc. -
Visitation News
Diocese of Worcester archdeacons’ visitation news Spring 2020 - issue 19 Dear Churchwardens PRAY – LIVE – BE When I was preparing to become We started the year with around a thousand church members from right across the Bishop of Dudley, I was asked diocese gathering together in a series of open conversations. It was encouraging what my priorities were going to to see so many of you engaging in this process of discerning how we best shape be. Three words came straight and resource ministry in and through as many healthy and sustainable churches as to me as personal priorities: possible. The questions we were wrestling with are not going to be answered with PRAY – LIVE – BE. Even in the quick fixes, but rather a careful reimagining of how we are church in the Diocese of midst of lockdown, I am still Worcester in 2020 and beyond, across the wonderfully diverse settings of the hamlets, finding them helpful. villages, towns, cities and large urban areas of our patch, reflecting different cultures and traditions. First of all, I need to PRAY, to have a living relationship with God at the heart of my life and woven into each day. I know We had no idea back then how much the world would change in a few short months. I will need to nurture that sacred centre, a place of inner This edition of Archdeacons’ Visitation News is only available digitally, and we have stillness in the midst of our turning world. I’ve spent most of been able to update this and one or two other articles, to reflect the different situation in which we now find ourselves. -
Report of Proceedings 2016 General Synod February Group of Sessions
Report of Proceedings 2016 General Synod February Group of Sessions Volume 47, No. 1 2 Officers of the General Synod Presidents The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York Prolocutors of the Lower Houses of the Convocations Canterbury York The Ven Christine Hardman The Ven Cherry Vann The House of Laity Chair Vice-Chair Dr Philip Giddings Mr Tim Hind Secretary General Mr William Nye LVO Clerk to the Synod Chief Legal Adviser and Dr Jacqui Philips Registrar Mr Stephen Slack Secretary to the House of Bishops Legislative Counsel Mr William Nye LVO Mr Christopher Packer Secretary to the House of Clergy Deputy Legal Adviser Mr Jonathan Neil-Smith The Revd Alexander McGregor Secretary to the House of Laity Mr Nicholas Hills Officers of the Convocations Synodical Secretary of the Convocation of Canterbury Registrar Revd Stephen Trott Mr Stephen Slack Synodal Secretary of the Convocation of York Registrar Ven Alan Wolstencroft Ms Caroline Mockford Contents Full Synod: First Day (Monday 15 February) Introductions and Presentations 1 Appointment of the Chair of the Dioceses Commission 2 Presidential Address 4 Report by the Business Committee 9 Legislative Business: Amending Canon No. 34 17 Draft Mission and Pastoral etc. (Amendment) Measure 18 Shared Conversations on Spirituality, Scripture and Mission: Presentation 35 Questions 43 Second Day (Tuesday 16 February) Report from the Evangelism Task Group 85 Report of the Church of England–Church of Scotland Joint Study Group 104 Diocesan Synod Motions: Parochial Fees 129 Proposed Enabling Measure 142 Diocesan Synod Motion: Blood and Organ Donation 160 Full Synod: First Day (Wednesday 17 February) Diocesan Synod Motion: Impact of Sanctions on Benefit Claimants 169 Renewal and Reform: Presentation 189 Renewal and Reform: Ministerial Education 204 Renewal and Reform: Resourcing the Future 227 Prorogation 239 Full Synod: First Day Monday 15 February 2016 THE CHAIR The Archbishop of Canterbury (Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr Justin Welby) took the Chair at 2.30 pm. -
July/August 2020
Malvern Priory £1.00 Magazine JULY / AUGUst 2020 ISSUE The Parish Church of St. Mary & St. Michael BLACK LIVES MATTER On 15 June, the Bishop of Worcester, Dr John Inge and outside the Cathedral, remembering the amount of time the Dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson ‘took the knee’ that George Floyd lay unable to breathe. At the start outside the Cathedral to pray for all those affected by of the prayers, Dean of Worcester, Peter Atkinson said: repression, discrimination and injustice in a special “The Gospel of Jesus Christ tells us that every person video (https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/ is our neighbour. Yet the Church has often oppressed, blacklivesmatter.php) ahead of the protest planned in marginalised, or forgotten people. The Church has been Worcester over the weekend of 20/21 June. complicit in making slaves of black people, persecuting Bishop John said: “Since 25 May, when George Floyd Jewish people, waging crusades against Muslim people, lay dying with a policeman’s knee on his neck, his cry criminalising gay people, oppressing women, and ‘I can’t breathe’ has gone round the world. That dying abusing children. God breathed into all people the cry captures the despair of so many people for whom breath of life, but so often ours has been the knees that the world is a place of repression, discrimination, and have squeezed the life from others.” injustice. It captures the cry of so many black children, After remembering the long history of oppression women, and men; so many black communities all over and suffering for black people and giving thanks for the world. -
Report of Proceedings 2017 General Synod July Group of Sessions
Report of Proceedings 2017 General Synod July Group of Sessions Volume 48, No. 2 Officers of the General Synod Presidents The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York Prolocutors of the Lower Houses of the Convocations Canterbury York The Revd Canon Simon Butler The Ven. Cherry Vann The House of Laity Chair Vice-Chair Canon Dr James Harrison Canon Elizabeth Paver Secretary General Mr William Nye LVO Clerk to the Synod Chief Legal Adviser & Registrar Dr Jacqui Philips Mr Stephen Slack Secretary to the House of Bishops Legislative Counsel Mr William Nye LVO Mr Christopher Packer Secretary to the House of Clergy Deputy Legal Adviser Mr Jonathan Neil-Smith The Revd Alexander McGregor Secretary to the House of Laity Mr Nicholas Hills Officers of the Convocations Synodical Secretary of the Convocation of Canterbury Revd Stephen Trott Registrar Mr Stephen Slack Synodical Secretary of the Convocation of York The Ven. Alan Wolstencroft Registrar Ms Caroline Mockford Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of: W B GURNEY & SONS LLP 83 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0HW Telephone Number: 0203 585 4721/22 CONTENTS INTRODUCTIONS .......................................................................................................... 1 WELCOME TO ANGLICAN AND ECUMENICAL GUESTS ............................................ 1 REPORT BY THE BUSINESS COMMITTEE (GS 2060) ................................................ 4 DRAFT AMENDING CANON NO. 36 (GS 2029B) ........................................................ 14 DRAFT AMENDING CANON NO. 37 (GS 2029BB)..................................................... -
Parish News Holy Cross Group of Churches
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Due to Covid19 This Issue Is a Free Edition and Available Only Online
Due to Covid19 this issue is a free edition and available only online Who’s Who: Priest: Revd Michelle Ward (Shellie) The Vicarage, Church Street, Broadway. WR12 7AE Email: [email protected] 852352 St. Michael and All Angels’ Church with St Eadburgha’s Church Churchwardens Kevin Beasley (also Treasurer & ALM)) 858672 59 Morris Road, Broadway [email protected] John Hayes (Also ALM) 852296 6 Buckland Close [email protected] Curate Revd Jo Williamson 853061 [email protected] Deanery Synod Joan Reading (also Safeguarding) 858148 PCC Secretary Sarah Beasley email: [email protected] 858672 Deputy Church Warden Gill Hammond 858748 Parochial Church Council Stuart Bates 852321 Valerie Charlton (also Flowers for St Michael’s) 859476 Colin Harper (also Organist and Director of Music) 751290 Marilyn Walker 859343 Peter Grant 858268 Electoral Roll Elizabeth Chard 852723 Friends of St Eadburgha’s Phil Whatmough (Chair) 852120 Robin Baker (Treasurer) 852842 Flowers St Eadburgha’s Margot Beaumont 859236 Churches Together in Broadway Dominique Hardiman 858821 St. John the Baptist, Wickhamford Church Wardens Ken Maden 830510 Pat Clinton (also Deanery Synod, Electoral Roll Officer & Flowers) 832112 Treasurer Carole Collis 882018 PCC Secretary Jackie Knight 830464 Other Useful Contacts Broadway Editor of the Grapevine Miss Cellaneous [email protected] Grapevine Distribution John Hayes 852296 Broadway Library: open Mon 9.30-4.30, Wed & Fri 9.30-4.30 & Sat 9.30-1 01905 822722 Lifford Hall (Bookings) Sue Southern—07874 -
St John-In-Bedwardine Parish Magazine May 2016 40P
St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Magazine May 2016 40p Welcome to St JOHN-IN-BEDWARDINE The Parish Church of St John’s St John’s is far more than the most historic building on the Westside of Worcester; it is the centre of a worshipping and sociable community of people, and a resource for everyone in St John’s. The church is open most weekdays for people to drop in to visit or for quiet; to sit, pray or light a candle. WEST WORCESTER CLERGY Day off The Reverend Dr CHRISTOPHER STUART (Vicar of St John’s) Saturday The Reverend PHIL BRADFORD Friday The Reverend SARAH COTTRILL (Assistant Curate) Monday CHURCHWARDENS Gordon Templeton, Joy Job. SUNDAY SERVICES AT ST JOHN’S This is the usual pattern. Please see the other notices or the back cover of the Parish Magazine for the actual services in a month. 8.00 a.m. Every week Holy Communion (BCP) 10.30 a.m. Every week except 2nd Parish Eucharist with Children’s Church Family Service with Children’s 2nd Sunday in month Participation 5.00 p.m. 1st Sunday in month Evensong (BCP) 3rd Sunday in month Evensong (BCP) 4th Sunday in month Service of Wholeness and Healing WEEKDAY SERVICES 5.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday Evening Prayer 9.45 a.m. Thursday (at St Clement’s) Holy Communion (BCP) 10.45 a.m. Thursday (at St Michael’s) Holy Communion (Modern language) PATORAL CARE: The church’s Pastoral Care Group offers support if you are lonely, bereaved, or unable to attend church. -
Diocese of Worcester Director of Education Application Pack Welcome to the Diocese
Diocese of Worcester Director of Education Application pack Welcome to the Diocese Church of England education, along with all The experiences of the last 12 months of pandemic and other partners in the world of education, is at an lockdowns, alongside ever-tightening budgets, mean that exciting yet complex moment in time. headteachers and governors are increasingly attempting to do more with less. The Government’s academy agenda is now well- established and Diocesan Boards of Education The Diocesan Education Team aims to walk with school (DBEs) are actively playing their part in the colleagues as they navigate these pressures, offering provision of high-quality education in both the training, advice, and support along the way. academy and the maintained sectors. Together, we explore new models of leadership and The Worcester DBE is proud to be a proactive alternative operational structures and we seek to ensure partner with local authority colleagues in Dudley that Church of England education in Dudley and and Worcestershire, as well as with multi Worcestershire is fit-for-purpose for the next generation. Bishop John: academy trusts (MATs) across the Diocese. “Thank you for showing interest in This joined up approach to education is having a this post. It is a crucial one for the positive impact for the more than 22,000 Diocese of Worcester and all those children and young people in our 100 Church associated with its 100 church schools, as well as for the staff and leaders of schools, particularly the young people these schools. who attend them. In this time of Despite the many exciting opportunities and change, in both education and the developments with which the DBE is involved, church, it is all the more significant.” there is no denying the difficulties that are faced by our in-school colleagues on a daily basis.