Benefice of South Tawton with Belstone

Sunday May 7th Easter 4
8.30am             Holy Communion (Modern) South Zeal
9.30am             Family Communion Belstone

Sunday May 14th Easter 5
8.30am             Holy Communion (1662) Sticklepath
9.30am             Parish Communion South Tawton
9.30am            Junior Church. Church House
11.15am           Parish Communion Belstone

Sunday May 21st Easter 6
8.30am             Holy Communion (1662) South Zeal
9.30am             Junior Church. Church House
10am                Benefice Communion Belstone
6.30pm            Taize Service today

Sunday April 23rd Easter 2 St George’s Day
8.30am             Holy Communion (modern) Sticklepath
9.30am             Family Communion South Tawton
11.15am           Parish Communion with Holy Baptism Belstone
1.00pm             Area Scouts St George’s Day Service South Tawton
6.30pm             Meditation and prayers for healing Sticklepath

Thursday Ascension Day May 25th
10am                Holy Communion Sticklepath

Sunday May 28th Easter 7 Sunday After Ascension
8.30am             Holy Communion (modern) Sticklepath
9.30am             Family Communion South Tawton
11.15am           Parish Communion Belstone
6.30pm            Meditation and prayers for healing Sticklepath

All Welcome

Rectory Ramblings
May arrives and as summer looms we come again to the fund raising time of the year and I would like to use my page this month to advertise the Parish of South Tawton’s four main events for 2006.

At 7.30pm on Friday May 19th at St Andrew’s we kick off with a concert THE GASMAN COMETH, a celebration of the music of Flanders and Swann. Our artists for the evening are Roger and Christine Cleverdon who both studied at the Guild Hall School of Music in London. Roger was a chorister at Exeter Cathedral before singing as a Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey from 1965 to 2002 combining this, with freelance singing, piano and organ playing. Roger worked with Donald Swann from 1971 to 1992 in two shows, “Between the Bars” and “A Crack In Time” Roger has sung with the Two Ronnies and was one of the original Lumberjacks in the famous Monty Python Sketch! Christine is an organist and pianist and has previously been a teacher in South London. Roger and Christine live in Hatherleigh, and although now enjoying retirement are both utilizing their musical gifts in our local churches. Please ring me asap on 849048 to reserve a ticket, price £5.

On June 24th in and around St Andrew’s we hold our annual summer event with all the usual fun of a traditional country fete. In Church House ploughman’s lunches will be served from noon, puddings will be in church. At 1pm in church Annabel our gifted local harpist will be giving a short recital. Country dancing follows at 2pm and the Junior Brass Band perform at 2.30pm. We hope there will be a display of Kite flying in the field next to the rectory at 3pm.

The South Tawton Flower Festival will be held on August 18th 19th and 20th, with an evening of “Bubble and Bits” on the Saturday which will include a short summer concert.

Please mark this date in your diary and come and see the special talent of our flower arrangement.

Having sung in the Royal Albert Hall, York Minster, The Royal Festival Hall and Kings College Cambridge, Louise Mott sings for us at St Andrew’s on September 15th  Louise studied at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and The Royal College of Music. She has sung with English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North. Louise made her Proms debut in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music and her September concert will include music by Schuman and Braham’s.
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR CONCERTS AND EVENTS.

Michael

Quote for the month
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, their your heart; where your heart, their your happiness. Augustin of Hippo

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Tuesdays May 2nd 16th and 30th Rectory Bible Study 7.30pm

“The Gasman Cometh”

Friday 19th May, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Church South Tawton

A Celebration of Flanders and Swann

Roger Cleverdon-Baritone
Christine Cleverdon-piano
£5

Please ring 849048 for tickets

Wednesday 24th Archdeacon’s Visitation Okehampton Parish Church

FROM THE REGISTERS

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