West Midlands Methodist District

Who we are

The West Midlands Methodist District is being formed by the merging of the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury and Birmingham Methodist Districts on 1st September 2025.

The West Midlands District will be:

* 320 churches grouped in 21 circuits across Birmingham, Wolverhampton and the Black Country, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. 

* Diverse in race and ethnicity, social and economic status, sexual orientation and gender identity, age and background, theological and political belief and yet called to explore and live the way of Jesus together.

* Serving communities in rural, inner city, market town, suburb and city centre settings from the Welsh Marches to Tamworth and Stafford to Evesham, including the cathedral cities of Hereford, Worcester, Lichfield and Coventry and the whole of the West Midlands conurbation.

The District exists to:

• Enable local churches to flourish
• Connect people
• Evolve with the changing picture of Methodism
• Initiate new work
• Challenge the status quo