Welcome to the Gornal and Sedgley Team Ministry website.
Our parish includes All Saints' Church in Sedgley, St Andrew's in The Straits and St Peter's in Upper Gornal.
We've been a 'team ministry' since 2005 - team-working allows us to provide spiritual and pastoral care to a wide area including Upper Gornal, the Straits and Sedgley.
If you need to talk to someone, and/or request them to pray for you, here is our team - please call or email them:
(PLEASE NOTE: For enquiries concerning Baptisms, Marriages, and arranging for 'Away Banns' to be read for marriages outside this Parish, contact Gail Griffiths our Administration Assistant, 01902 540289, email: admin@allsaintssedgley.co.uk )
Revd Catherine Mitchell
Acting Team Rector
Tel: 01902 677897
Email: vicargornalandsedgley@allsaintssedgley.co.uk
Canon Jan Humphries, Licensed Lay Minister
Tel: 01902 661275
Mobile: 07954 314102
SAFEGUARDING
The Parish of Gornal and Sedgley takes the issue of safeguarding very seriously, ensuring that children and young people as well as adults are kept safe whilst in our care is an integral part of our church life.
If you, or someone you know feels unsafe, here is a list of people who can help:
Barbara Baker
Parish Safeguarding Officer
Tel 01902 882847
Email: safeguarding@allsaintssedgley.co.uk
Catherine Mitchell
Acting Team Rector
Tel. 01902 677897
Email vicargornalandsedgley@allsaintssedgley.co.uk
Diocesan Safeguarding Team
Email: safeguardingadvice@cofe-worcester.org.uk
Dudley Adult & Children’s Social Care
Tel 03005 550055 ( out of hours 03005 558574)
If you have concerns that someone is at risk of immediate harm, contact the police on 999.
SAFE SPACES
An independent service supporting survivors of church-related abuse.
Launched in September 2020, this service offers support to survivors of church-related abuse, whether or not a report has been made.
This independent service is run by the charity Victim Support and funded by the Church of England, the Catholic Church in England and the Church of Wales.
It is free to access via telephone, email or web-chat
Tel: 0300 303 1056 (answerphone is available)
email: safespaces@victimsupport.org.uk
Web-chat is available via the Safe Spaces website: https://www.safespacesenglandandwales.org.uk
The latest news, events and forthcoming services are included in our weekly notice sheets.
THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL FIND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION:
BEACON MAGAZINE
ALL SAINTS' WHO'S WHO
All Saints' Who's Who updated October 2022
PATTERN OF SERVICES ACROSS THE PARISH OF GORNAL AND SEDGLEY
(updated March 2023)
PLEASE SPONSOR CHURCHWARDEN STEVE'S LONDON MARATHON RUN
As you may be aware, our Churchwarden Steve Castle is due to undertake that most gruelling of fundraising challenges The London Marathon on Sunday 21st April 2024, when he and his son Harry run together in aid of Dementia UK.
They have already raised an astounding £9,600, but Steve would very much like to take their total over the £10,000 mark.
If you'd like to make a donation, here's the link:
Donate to Steve and Harry's London Marathon run for Dementia UK
FAREWELL TO REVD CALUM AND FAMILY
On Sunday 7th April 2024 at the 11.00am service at All Saints', we said goodbye to Revd Calum Burke. He has spent the past year with us as Curate attached to Top Church Dudley, on an extended placement with the Gornal and Sedgley Team.
Here are a few pictures of Calum's farewell service:
Parish farewell to Revd Calum and family 7/4/24
Revd Calum will be Interim Priest in Charge in the Benefice of Thornbury, Woodhall with Waterloo in the Bradford Episcopal area.
DEFIBRILLATOR INSTALLED AT ST ANDREW'S
A defibrillator has been installed on the wall outside St Andrew‘s Church on the Straits. This life-saving piece of equipment is now be readily accessible for anyone to use in the case of an emergency.
Defibrillators are devices that apply an electric charge or current to the heart to restore a normal heartbeat. If the heart rhythm stops due to cardiac arrest, a defibrillator may help it start beating again.
Thank you to Canon Jan and Revd Catherine for facilitating this great new initiative.
ALL SAINTS' GOOD FRIDAY CRAFT WORKSHOP
Barbara Price writes:
'The Workshop went very well today, with 39 children registering for the activities.'
Good Friday 2024 Craft Workshop pictures
ALL SAINTS' NEW CHURCH SIGN
Liz and Chris Williams, who arranged for All Saints' sign in Vicar Street to be brought up to date.
You may have noticed a new sign in the grounds of All Saints', which has been organised by Chris and Liz Williams.
The supplier is the Church Noticeboard Company; the new sign has two compartments allowing large posters to be displayed. They are lockable, and posters are attached inside using magnetic pins.
The adhesive vinyl lettering can be changed when required with the minimum of fuss.
It's a clean, bright and attractive improvement to the frontage of the church. Thank you so much to Liz and Chris for your work.
PALM SUNDAY 2024
The Blessing of the Palms inside the Church Hall.
On Palm Sunday we met in the church hall at 10.45am for the Blessing of the Palms, and our Palm Sunday Procession across the road to Church. Our palm fronds represented the palms laid down on the road before Christ as he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.
More images from the Palm Sunday Palm Blessing and Procession 2024.
Noah’s Ark News
Linda Watkins writes:
"We have come to the end of our Spring term. Firstly it was lovely to see and welcome Catherine.
We had our usual Mothering Sunday activities and our Easter Bonnet parade. Thank you to Barbara Price and Gail for making the difficult decision of judging. We had an Easter Egg hunt, there was a free raffle, all of the children were able to take an Easter Egg home
We hope you all have a Blessed Easter.
The Noah’s Ark Team
Working for our community"
Pictures of Easter Bonnet/Easter Egg Hunt
All Saints' Bench Mark
Unless you happen to be looking for it, it's most likely you wouldn't notice it - this metal plate is set into the lower part of the south-east face of All Saints' church tower. What is it, what's its purpose, and why is it located on the church wall?
Stained Glass at All Saints'
John Anderson has kindly compiled and printed an excellent report about the many beautiful stained glass windows at All Saints', based on research by experts Dan Humphries Stained Glass Ltd. Occasionally we receive enquiries from external researchers about them - and the eminent companies that fabricated them - as they are all of great historical interest, so it's very useful to have what we've found out about them available in a concise publication of this sort. There is a printed version available in church - a pdf version can be viewed here:
'CHURCH' EMAILS - PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS
Recently members of our congregations have been receiving emails purporting to be from Revd Catherine Mitchell and addressed to them personally, asking for 'assistance online'.
These do not bear Revd Catherine's real email address, and are almost certainly intended to defraud the recipient if replied to.
The names of other members of the congregation may also have been used falsely.
*RECENTLY OUR CHURCHWARDEN KEITH TOMLINSON'S EMAIL HAS BEEN CLONED
Please be vigilant - and certainly never reply to any unusual or unexpected communications or click on any links without checking their validity.
PARISH INFORMATION LEAFLET
Click here to see leaflet with info about Gornal and Sedgley Team Ministry activities
GENERAL INFORMATION
BEREAVEMENT HUB
ARRANGEMENTS FOR BAPTISMS AND WEDDINGS
There have been some recent changes in the information we provide about arrangements regarding Baptisms and Weddings...
BAPTISM BOOKINGS
For enquiries concerning Baptisms, please contact Gail Griffiths our Administration Assistant, 01902 540289, email: admin@allsaintssedgley.co.uk
DISCUSSING OR BOOKING A WEDDING
To discuss the Reading of the Banns, or to make any enquiries about arranging a wedding, please contact the Parish Office, from 10.00am-12.30pm, Monday to Friday:
Phone number: 01902 540289
Please do not contact the Acting Team Rector directly.
GIVING TO ALL SAINTS' CHURCH
If you have a smartphone, use your camera to access the 'Give a Little' website, then press the arrow to 'thyg.uk' to choose how much you wish to contribute:
Alternatively you can use this link to the 'Give a Little' website:
tinyurl.com/allsaintsgivealittle
Our Facebook site
Our Facebook site provides an added facility for communicating with other members of our church community and with our Team Ministry.
PARISH OFFICE
Address:
All Saints' Parish Office
Ladies Walk
Dudley
DY3 3UA
Phone number: 01902 540289
Our Administration Assistant is Gail Griffiths.
Other contact email addresses:
Keith Tomlinson, Churchwarden:
churchwardenkeith@allsaintssedgley.co.uk
John Anderson, Treasurer and Churchwarden:
treasurer@allsaintssedgley.co.uk
Our website
If you'd like to contribute any information about forthcoming church events, write an article, or correct anything on the site, please send your information to Martin our website editor:
mmjones29@gmail.com