Chaplaincy Stories: You either like hospitals or you don't!
Published on: 29th October 2025Rev'd Philip Roberts has been an NHS Chaplain for over 35 years; when someone said 'you're not a proper' vicar', he took it as a compliment.
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Rev'd Philip Roberts has been an NHS Chaplain for over 35 years; when someone said 'you're not a proper' vicar', he took it as a compliment.
 
                            
                    Chaplaincy to our cadet groups is "life-giving". Rev'd Phill Brown is chaplain to the Hereford Sea Cadets and Rev'd Paul Roberts is chaplain to the Hereford & Worcester Army Cadet Force
 
                            
                    "God knows, and that is enough” – the quiet work of Anna Chaplaincy reaches deep into the community in Bridgnorth. Jane Peeler is an Anna Chaplain; here she explains how it is a quiet ministry, but with Jesus at its heart
 
                            
                    St Dubricius Church in Whitchurch is experiencing an encouraging response from visitor engagement this summer, as tourists increasingly seek something beyond the beautiful countryside of the Wye Valley and Symmonds Yat area – a deeper spiritual connection and welcome.
 
                            
                    Rev'd Penny Littlewood is Mothers' Union Chaplain for the diocese. As she observes here, there is a lot wrapped up in the Mothers’ Union strapline ‘Christian care for families’.
 
                            
                    Rev’d Andy Ackroyd is Vicar in Madeley, Shropshire, in the Severn Borders Deanery, and recently became Disability Advisor to the diocese. He has a personal interest in including people with Learning Disabilities in our worshipping communities and he is a champion for inclusivity – for ALL our benefits, as he explains here.
 
                            
                    The names and citations of the recipients of this year's Order of St Ethelbert Awards have been announced
 
                            
                    For Jed Dunn, being a hospital chaplain and Anna Chaplain means being a ‘light worker’ – someone who brings light into the dark place; to do that, he says, you need to go into those dark places, and you need to be prepared and protected.
 
                            
                    In Greater Whitbourne parish, strategic funding is helping community projects to blossom
 
                            
                    In Brown Clee benefice, having a dedicated administrator has meant more missional energy, with tangible results
