News Stories
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21 May 2021
Families connect God and nature in Wild Church
Families gathered in the churchyard at St James Church, Emsworth, for the first ever meeting of 'Wild Church'. This is a way of connecting nature with spirituality in a family-friendly way. It's going to be happening each month from now on. Read more
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2 May 2021
Team for North Gosport completed by double licensing
The licensing of the Rev Samantha Martell and the Rev Jude Greenfield as team vicars of Gosport North has completed the team to run this new parish. They were licensed together at St Mary the Virgin, Rowner, by the acting Archdeacon of the Meon Read more
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22 Jan. 2021
Restructure of diocesan central staff announced
We have restructured our central staff team to continue to provide support to parishes and schools in future. This re-shaping has involved reviewing and changing job descriptions for most of the team, and sadly some redundancies too. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted diocesan finances, as has been the case for our parishes, and therefore we have had to review and reduce our expenditure. Those staff changes have now been announced Read more
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22 May 2020
Portsmouth’s largest church launches new church plant
Harbour Church in Portsmouth is preparing to launch a brand new daughter church in Cardiff. They’ll send a team to Wales to start up ‘Citizen Church’ from September. Read more
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10 Jan. 2020
New space for workers created inside church
St Luke’s Church in Southsea has created a space inside its church building for lone workers and those who are self-employed to use as a base for their work. The Host Space is created every Monday morning and cleared away again on a Friday afternoon. Those who work there are encouraged to engage with spiritual activities and with those working alongside them. Read more
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9 Oct. 2019
Leaders learn about pioneering and church planting
Clergy and lay leaders met in Liphook to hear more about how to plant new churches and engage in pioneering at our Reach Conference. They heard from those who have already planted churches and engaged in pioneer ministry from our diocese. Read more
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8 Oct. 2019
Bishop and ska choir help celebrate church’s 2nd birthday
A church plant has celebrated its second birthday with a visit from a ska choir and the bishop. St Margaret’s Community Church has now outgrown the church hall where it was meeting originally and is worshipping in the refurbished church building Read more
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6 Oct. 2019
First parishes reorganised in Gosport
The first parishes have been reorganised as part of our Resourcing Growth programme. The parishes of Bridgemary, Elson and Rowner will be merged to create a new team ministry. Read more
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18 July 2019
Church Commissioners’ decision on pastoral reorganisation plans
The Church Commissioners have approved some of our proposals to reorganise parishes and declined others. Clergy and lay representatives from various parishes and from our diocesan central team travelled to London for a hearing to determine whether parishes would be merged in three strategically-important parts of our diocese. Read more
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29 April 2019
Portsmouth MP supports church’s desire to serve community
Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan was one of dozens of people who helped a Portsmouth church work out how their building could be used to serve the local community. St Margaret’s Community Church hosted the community day as it threw open its doors for the first time in more than three years. Read more