Doing us credit
Last Updated: 20th January 2014Shifnal is now served by a new FAIRshare Service Point.
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Tamworth Street Angels Commissioned
Last Updated: 8th September 2021Members of Tamworth's Covenanting Churches (TCC) crowded into St Editha's Church on Sunday to celebrate the town's many social action projects and to commission Tamworth Street Angels.
Growing Young Leaders
Last Updated: 30th July 2014Growing Young Leaders is an opportunity for young people age 14-20 to develop their faith and ability to lead and work with others.
Courses - Lent to all
Last Updated: 30th January 2014Like buses, home-grown Lent courses arrive in twos.
A Warm Welcome for the Archbishop of Canterbury in Stafford
Last Updated: 30th July 2014The Right Revd Justin Welby was in Stafford this week, speaking to a barn full of 4,500 teenagers at the Staffordshire Showground. The occasion was an annual event that attracts young people from churches throughout the Midlands and north of England.
GraveTalk
Last Updated: 8th September 2021Planning your own funeral and how we would like to be remembered are just two of the topics being discussed in 'GraveTalk', conversations being run in the Diocese of Lichfield to provide people with the opportunity to talk about funerals and death.
Icons as Liturgical Art
Last Updated: 13th February 2014February in Lichfield Cathedral will stand out as a great opportunity to contemplate the place of icons in our spiritual lives.
Near Neighbours
Last Updated: 8th September 2021Following its success in Birmingham, London and Bradford, Near Neighbours has now come to the Black Country (Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Dudley). Grants between £250 and £5,000 are available, providing seed capital for local groups and organisations who are working to bring together neighbours, to develop relationships across diverse faiths and ethnicities in order to improve their communities.
Celebrating Priesthood
Last Updated: 8th September 2021It is the 20th anniversary of women's ordination to the priesthood, and there are national celebrations, including a service at St Paul's Cathedral on May 3rd.
Cathedral Volunteers and Listeners Celebrate 25 Years
Last Updated: 18th September 2014Have you heard the Diocesan Digest, Sound Magazine for Lichfield Cathedral? It celebrates its 25th birthday this weekend.
Crusty Church – One teacher’s reflections on going to a new church for the first time.
Last Updated: 8th September 2021Revd Pauline Shelton is one of this diocese's teachers based at Shallowford House. Last year she spent some time rediscovering the experience of being a stranger in a new culture, class or church: This video sums up her mouthwatering discoveries.
Celebrating Men and Women Working Together in Ministry
Last Updated: 23rd May 2014There was celebration at Lichfield Cathedral on Saturday as the Diocese marked the 20th anniversary of the ordination of the first women priests.
Diocese launches new video to support Safeguarding in Parishes
Last Updated: 23rd May 2014The Diocese of Lichfield has launched a new DVD to provide basic Safeguarding training in parishes.
Lay Minister Applies Training at the Coalface
Last Updated: 18th December 2012Video story of how a Stoke-on-Trent Lay Minister turned fiction into fact
Marvellous
Last Updated: 26th September 2014An interview with Neil Baldwin
Time Out Of Church is focus of Stafford Area Lecture
Last Updated: 23rd May 2014At a stimulating session for church leaders, Neil Hudson from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity asked how people put our faith into practice in our everyday lives.
For Richer, For Poorer
Last Updated: 6th December 2024On Saturday June 14, the Bishop of Lichfield is hosting "For Richer, For Poorer" at the Beacon International Centre, Stafford, from 10am - 3pm.
Inspiring All Age Worship
Last Updated: 8th September 2021A day conference on leading worship that really is all-age (and all traditions/styles), at The Beacon International Centre, Stafford, Saturday June 28, 10am - 4pm.
Leek Club Day
Last Updated: 13th June 2014Each July, Leek holds an ecumenical festival, one of the biggest events in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Leek Club Day is a tradition with over 200 years of history, and an institution well supported by the community.
From Advent to Harvest
Last Updated: 13th October 2014A new book of resources is published, for leading worship through the church year, from former Lichfield Diocese priest and Director of Ordinands, Revd Preb Mark Geldard.
For Richer, For Poorer - hearing stories of poverty and partnership
Last Updated: 30th June 2014'If people are in poverty, then it's their own fault' is a common generalisation, but close encounters with those who experience poverty are proving that is rarely the case.
Rescuing the children
Last Updated: 8th September 2021'Dilan dropped in at Sanctus a few weeks ago, just a lady in a distraught state'. Revd Sally Smith is used to welcoming new faces to Sanctus, a support group for refugees at St Mark's in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. But this new face was to prompt Sally to jump on a flight and journey hundreds of miles across Bulgaria. 'Dilan is a Kurdish Syrian. Her husband was killed by government forces, and she has five children, aged between three and fifteen. They fled as refugees into Turkey, and then onto Bulgaria, where they were processed in Harmanli refugee camp.'
New Revs Ordained
Last Updated: 30th June 2014There were great celebrations this weekend as twenty-two new Reverends were ordained in Lichfield Cathedral.
First Archdeacon of Lichfield dies
Last Updated: 23rd October 2014The Venerable Richard Ninis, the first Archdeacon of Lichfield has died.
Enabling Churches Conference Resounding Success
Last Updated: 8th July 2014"The Enabling Churches conference held in the diocese was a resounding success" says Bishop Clive Gregory.
Preaching workshop
Last Updated: 15th July 2014"Without doubt, the best organised and delivered, and most relevant workshop I have ever attended".
Local vicar, Revd Preb Pat Hawkins to be new Canon of Lichfield Cathedral
Last Updated: 15th July 2014Lichfield Cathedral has appointed a new Canon for Pastoral Development and Mission.
Like Son, Like Father
Last Updated: 15th July 2014It's not unusual to find married couples who follow each other along the path to ordination, but this June was a joyful time for the Merry family.
Birches Head Memorial Window
Last Updated: 8th September 2021Frank McGregor is no stranger to putting big art in the service of God. But the St Matthew's memorial is among the biggest commemorative art projects ever attempted.
10 million rely on church community support shows new research
Last Updated: 15th July 2014New research conducted for the Church Urban Fund, CUF, shows that 10 million adults a year in England use community services from churches.
