TEME VALLEY SOUTH - A PARISH IN WEST WORCESTERSHIRE
Set in a glorious part of the country in the west of Worcestershire with churches that have been here for hundreds of years, we are a Christian presence in the village communities of Eastham, Hanley Childe, Hanley William, Kyre, Rochford, Stanford and Stoke Bliss.
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MEET OUR PRIEST IN CHARGE
REVEREND JULIA CURTIS
Priest in Charge
Benefice of Teme Valley South
Rectory Phone number: 01886 853286
Rectory email address: revjuliacurtis@gmail.com
Rev’d Julia Curtis is the Priest in Charge of Teme Valley South and also a Rural Mission Enabler for the Diocese of Worcester. She is passionate about rural ministry, the important role the church has to play in rural communities and celebrating the rhythm of the seasons alongside the rhythm of the church calendar.
Rev’d Julia is also Curate in Charge of the neighbouring parishes of Clifton, Harpley (Lower Sapey) and the Shelsley’s. Prior to ordination, she worked as a Chartered Accountant for a number of years including being the Finance Manager at Norwich Cathedral. She is married to John and they have two adult sons.
Most of our churches are open from dawn to dusk, seven days each week. Join us for one of our regular services or feel free to visit and use them for private prayer.
The Pastoral Team are there to offer support to all those in our local community. Parishoners, trained and supported by the local church, are there for you if you need them.
Supporting Rev'd Julia, our Priest in Charge, we have a great team of ministers and lay people spread across the parish. Feel free to reach out to them.
Teme Valley South is part of a Rural Mission Area - a group of rural parishes in the west of the Diocese of Worcester which started working collaboratively across 156sqm of our wonderful landscape in 2024.
There are three paid priests working across the area, one full time and two of us part-time. We have been meeting regularly since early summer, have covenanted to collaborate positively and are based as follows:
Rev’d Sallie Butcher – Mamble with Bayton, Rock with Heightington and Far Forest
Rev’d David Morris – 4 churches of Teme Valley North, Abberley, Shrawley, Little and Great Witley.
Rev’d Julia Curtis – 7 churches of Teme Valley South, Clifton, The 2 churches of the Shelsleys, Lower Sapey (Harpley)
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In addition to the seven TVS churches, Rev'd Julia is also Curate in Charge, working with the following churches
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Philippians 2:5-8 28/04/2025
