Benefice of South Tawton with Belstone

Services January 2005
Please be assured of a warm welcome at all our services

Sunday 2 nd Christmas 2

8:30 a.m. Holy Communion, South Zeal (modern)
9:30 a.m. Family Communion, Belstone
11:00 a.m. Matins, South Tawton

Sunday 9 th Epiphany 1

8:30 a.m. Holy Communion, ( 1662 Said) Sticklepath
9:30 a.m. Parish Communion , South Tawton
( 9:30 a.m. Junior Church at South Tawton )
11:15 a.m. Parish Communion, Belstone

Sunday 16 th Epiphany 2

8:30 a.m. Holy Communion, ( 1662 Said) South Zeal
9:30 a.m. Junior Church at Church House, South Tawton
10:00 a.m . Benefice Communion, Belstone
6:30 p.m. Taize Service, South Zeal

Sunday 23 rd Epiphany 3

8:30 Holy Communion, ( 1662 Said) Sticklepath
9:30 a.m. Family Communion, South Tawton
11:15 a.m. Parish Communion, Belstone
6:30 p.m. Sung Evensong, Sticklepath

Sunday 30 th Epiphany 4

8:30 a.m. Holy Communion, ( 1662 Said) Sticklepath
9:30 a.m. Parish Communion , South Tawton
11:15 a.m. Parish Communion, Belstone

Dates for your diary

April 10 th - Music workshop, St. Andrew's South Tawton 4p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Bring and share tea followed by worship at 6:30 p.m.

April 14 th - Parish AGM, Belstone, Village Hall, 7:30 p.m.

April 18 th - Parish AGM, South Tawton 7 p.m.

June 20 th - Okehampton Choral Society, St. Andrew's, South Tawton , 7:30 p.m.

June 25 th - Summer Event, St. Andrew's, South Tawton

( Lunches, games, stalls, dancing etc)

August 19 th - 21 st St. Andrew's, South Tawton , Flower Festival

'All things bright and beautiful'

October 15 th - Exeter Cathedral Choir in concert, St. Andrew's, South Tawton .

November the 5 th - Autumn Fayre, 2 p.m. Victory Hall, South Zeal.

November 25 th - Historical Pageant, St. Andrew's, South Tawton 7:30 p.m.

Please put these dates in your diary and look out for event posters.

Rectory Ramblings - January 2005

A New Year has arrived, may it be one of peace and joy for you all. As we look back on 2004, we will all have our individual thoughts and memories. For some it will have been a year of positive enjoyable experiences, for others the twelve months may be remembered for times better forgotten and events that we will never be able to forget for their sadness or their impact upon us.

There are times when we get glimpses of how the world or indeed the Church can and should be, times where love and goodness and hope rise above the everyday humdrum of life. Jesus said ' Behold I make all things new'. God has the power to transform as he walks beside us in our happiness or our despair. I pray that in 2005 he will help us to see how life can be in his promise that he is with us always and that in Christ all things are made new.