The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are calling for Church of England churches to put public worship on hold and become a “different sort of church” in the coming months to face the challenge of coronavirus.

Yet again another highly successful Community Breakfast was held in the Church on 7th March 2020. This time we fed over 150 people, with 145 having cooked breakfasts in the 2½ hours!

On a very wet and windy morning 21 intrepid souls met at the church to head off to Webb’s of Wychbold for morning coffee followed by the trip to Cadbury World for as tour of the factory, afternoon tea and then a trip round Bourneville village.

At St David’s we are preparing to celebrate one hundred years of Christian worship in the building in Comer Gardens. Originally the Comer Gardens Mission, the building was dedicated to St David on March 1st 1966, this particular saint being chosen as there was no other church in Worcester dedicated to him.
So what do we know about Saint David?

As he lay dying at Newark in October 1216, his authority in tatters and his realm engulfed by civil war, King John made his will. In it, he stated his desire that his body be ‘buried in the church of the Blessed Virgin and St Wulfstan at Worcester’. His original intention had been burial at Beaulieu Abbey, a house he had founded and whose monks desperately sought his corpse, but by late 1216 Hampshire was deep in enemy territory. So John, along with the earliest surviving English royal will (still held by the Cathedral Library), made his last journey to Worcester, secure and dependable, to be laid to rest beside the last Anglo-Saxon bishop and his patron saint, in a tomb he still occupies.

Margaret Miller brought in some very tasty French Epiphany Cakes that were flaky pastry with a frangipane filling. In France they are made with feve (Broad Bean) in the cake and the finder is made King for the day. Margaret made ours with small figurines in which people were able to keep. The photos below were taken after the service whilst people were eating and celebrating.

This month sees the week of prayer for Christian Unity, taking place from 18th to 25th January, an annual initiative in which churches throughout the world are asked to pray for one another as a way of growing closer.

On Saturday 14th December the children put on a wonderful performance of the Nativity Story. Around twenty local children participated, having been working hard at rehearsals during November.