In July an Archbishops’ Council grant of over £5 million was awarded
to the Diocese to enable two ‘resourcing churches’ to be established
in Worcester and Dudley. All Saints’ Church in Worcester and St
Thomas & St Luke in Dudley (Top Church) will each receive funding
to develop their church buildings and employ additional team
members to enable them to grow and become a resource for all
churches across the Diocese.
All Saints in Worcester will be looking to further
develop St Helen’s on the High Street as well as All
Saints’ itself. In 2002, All Saints was relaunched
to provide an Anglican evangelical ministry which
was missing in the City of Worcester and has since
grown to nearly 400 members. The funding from the
Church Commissioners will enable All Saints’ to develop
and expand further, growing leaders and supporting other
churches in Worcester and beyond.
The new resourcing church in Dudley is an opportunity
to establish a congregation in Dudley which will be very
different from the other Church of England congregations
currently in the town. Top Church will be redeveloped and
improved and a new team there will work with the existing community to bring new life
to this iconic church to enable it to best serve the needs of the local area.
Please pray for both All Saints and ‘Top Church’, that the plans will develop smoothly,
that they will help more people to come to faith and that they will be a real resource
for other churches in the Diocese.
Bromsgrove Deanery – Rural Dean: Paul Lawlor; Lay Chair: David Hargreaves
The Church of the Province of Uganda: Archbishop Stanley Ntagali
Diocese of Swansea and Brecon (Wales): Bishop John Davies
Diocese of Leicester: Bishop Martyn Snow with Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani (Loughborough)
