Useful Links

GRAPEVINE PARISH MAGAZINE

The latest Grapevine magazines, covering news from all the Old Hills parishes can be found here:

Grapevine February-March 2024

Grapevine Nov Dec 2023

TANZANIA

To reflect our Diocese’s link with Tanzania, we will be developing our links via a Redditch based charity called  Mission Morogoro. Supporting a rural community near Berega and Tunguli, MM fund raises for the local hospital, supports ventures to reduce perinatal mortality and is also tasked to rebuild St Elizabeth’s Church – destroyed by floods in 2017. To be honest, they are not waiting for us to get their church rebuilt, the people of Tunguli are just getting on with it.  Find out more via:

www.missionmorogoro.org.uk

Update from Tanzania…

Over the last couple of years, our churches and schools have raised funds over Lent to support the rural community and church in Tunguli, Morogoro in Tanzania. Through the work of Mission Morogoro (a small Redditch based charity chaired by Revd Canon John Green) and the Diocese of Morogoro (a link diocese with Worcester), we are all helping to make a real difference in this community. 

Rev Gary has just uploaded a YouTube assembly onto the Old Hills Malvern Churches’ YouTube channel – Understanding Holy Week (for Early Years). It is available to view here… https://youtu.be/nCAitFe3NS0

LORDS ALIVE SERVICES ONLINE

The following services are available on line – just click on the relevant link:

Lord’s Alive Lifepath on YouTube – Walking on the lifepath – YouTube

Lord’s Alive December – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2752600201736088

Lord’s Alive November – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1281843642173380

‘What has inspired me over the last six months:’

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=820800632085341

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=355816925834943

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1053291771768253

Lord’s Alive October – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=270821117439567

Lord’s Alive September – https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=348359746207000

Life events (aka Births, deaths and Marriages) – Useful National websites:-

http://www.yourchurchwedding.org/

https://churchofenglandchristenings.org/

https://churchofenglandfunerals.org/

 

Did you ever wonder…… How does the Old Hill parishes fit in with the wider church?

The Old Hills parishes are part of the Diocese of Worcester. The Diocese is, in effect,  the regional structure of the Church of England and spans the County of Worcestershire and parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands.

The Diocese provides oversight and support to parishes.  There are two Bishops in the  Diocese. Rt Rev John Inge is the Bishop of Worcester. The Bishop of Worcester is a senior Bishop who  also sits in the House of Lords. There is is a supporting Bishop, the Bishop of Dudley. Bishop Martin Gorrick was installed as the Bishop of Dudley in January and started his ministry with us at the end of February.

For further information about the Diocese of Worcester. Please visit 
https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk

For further information on the wider Church of England , please visit
www.churchofengland.org

To find your nearest Church of England  Church, please visit
www.achurchnearyou.com 

Benefice Webpages on Guarlford Parish Council Website
http://www.guarlfordparish.uk/pcc_benefice_splash.htm 

As well as links to Church of England resources, did you know that this group of churches supports a number of charities?  Through our regular giving or famous coffee mornings or soup lunches, we strive to help those charities where their values and aims chime with your churches. As well as the Barnabas Fund, Bible Society, Children’s Society, Send a Cow, MAF, Christians Against Poverty (Malvern CAP) and Malvern Food Bank, we are linked with two charities with an international flavour….

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

Every year , the churches will collect filled shoe boxes for the charity, Teams4U.  This charity is growing and is founded by one of the original shoe box charity pioneers. This charity may not be as well known as certain other Shoe Box Charities, but is doing great things in the areas it operates.  It’s small enough to get to know and work with. It has gone back to basics and is working with partner organisations in Central/ Eastern Europe – areas where still 24/7 electricity and mains water are not as prevalent as here in Old Hills and people still live in clay brick huts in certain parts of Romania that Rev Gary visited in 2016.  Last year , over 320 boxes were collected through the kind endeavours of so many people including Guarlford and Powick WIs, the Worcestershire Scouts, Powick, Callow End and Madresfield Primary Schools and many individuals that were excited by the idea. We are hoping for more, year on year, despite Brexit! If you want to get involved, by collecting items for a shoe box or doing some yourself, contact us for more info. You will be sending unconditional love to a child or a family in time for Christmas ( or the Orthodox Christmas) by your kind actions . Find out more :

www.teams4u.com 

 

Renew

Renew is a Christian charity supporting people who are enduring or recovering from mental health issues. Running on Friday’s (10am- 1230pm) at the Link Garden Centre in Powick ( Off the main A449 near the playing fields). Powick Church is one of a number churches that support this venture through prayer, puzzles and cake. Contact us for further information on how you can get involved. Please note that Renew was suspended due to the pandemic and has yet to restart.

We are also beginning to forge links with a navy warship too, via Rev Gary’s Padre role with the local Royal British Legion and personal contact. More soon about this interesting development!

Photograph Acknowledgements – photographs on this website have been sourced or supplied from a variety of fantastic local parishioners whom are good photographers too. Thank you to Angus McCulloch, Robin and Theo Shuard and Mike Richmond.  If you see a photo of yours on this site, and wish it to be acknowledged, please let Rev Gary know.