Parish Office.
Over the next few weeks, the office opening times will be sporadic. Mel will be mainly working from home.
If you leave a message on the answering machine (01626 211346), or send an email (office@newtonabbotparishes.co.uk), she will respond.
News of our Team Vicar – Rev Gareth Regan
Dear Newton Abbot Parish family
I have been appointed Vicar-designate of Kingsteignton with Teigngrace and Local Mission Enabler for Totnes Archdeaconry.
- The Move: Our family will be moving just across the parish boundary after Christmas.
- Licensing Service: My institution service will take place on Thursday, January 14th at St Michael's, Kingsteignton, and you are all warmly invited to attend.
- Full Details: I have attached the complete announcement document for full context on the new role and transition.
Thank you for your incredible support and partnership during my time as Team Vicar and Missioner in Newton Abbot. Please keep Samantha, the children, and me in your prayers as we prepare for this next step.
With love and prayers,
Gareth.
Team Vicar
Newton Abbot Team Ministry
01626 201237
ANNOUNCEMENT
It is announced that the Revd Gareth Regan has been appointed Vicar-designate of Kingsteignton with Teigngrace and Local Mission Enabler for Totnes Archdeaconry.
Gareth is presently Team Vicar and Team Missioner in the Newton Abbot Team Ministry. Gareth grew up in Newton Abbot and before ordination was a manager in the retail food and home improvement industries in the southwest of England.
He trained for ordained ministry at St John’s College, Nottingham and earned his theology degree from the Queen’s Foundation in Birmingham. He was ordained in 2013 and served his curacy in Wolverhampton before moving back to Newton Abbot in 2017.
Gareth is a member of the national College of Evangelists, a team of ministers working with the Archbishop of Canterbury to assist churches across the country in proclaiming the gospel in their communities. In this diocese he serves as an Assistant Director of Ordinands and locally as chaplain to the Air Cadets and the Royal British Legion. He is a foundation director of the Ivy Education Trust, which operates a number of schools in the area including Newton Abbot College.
In his new ministry, Gareth’s work will include serving as the first Local Mission Enabler for Totnes Archdeaconry, a role funded by the Church of England as part of our diocesan Pray, Grow, Serve 2035 initiative. In this aspect of his ministry, he will provide support for mission communities across the Archdeaconry of Totnes as they reach out beyond the walls of their existing churches to create new forms of worship and church life, widening access to Christian teaching and discipleship alongside the continuing ministry of our traditional parish churches.
Gareth is married to Samantha; they have three children at secondary school and sixthform college. The family will move to Kingsteignton Vicarage after Christmas and subject to the completion of all legal formalities, Gareth will be instituted as Vicar by the Bishop of Exeter on the evening of Thursday, January 14th at a service in St Michael’s, Kingsteignton at which all will be welcome.
Your prayers are asked for Gareth and Samantha and their family as they prepare for their move across the parish boundary from Newton Abbot to Kingsteignton, and for this new chapter in Gareth’s life and work as a priest.
All Saints’ Church Weekday Services
The recently started services of Compline on Mondays and Morning Prayer on Thursdays have proved to be very popular.
A cup of tea is served from 6:30 p.m. before the 7 p.m. Compline on Mondays with Jon leading.
Coffee or tea is served after the 9 a.m. Morning Prayer service on Thursday with Gareth presiding.
From 1st October, there will be a ‘dog walker cafe’ each Thursday, with the church remaining open until midday. All are welcome - working name is ‘The dog collar cafe’. Volunteers to help on Thursday mornings to welcome visitors and serve refreshments would be hugely welcome.
If you can help from time to time, please speak to Paul Cannock, or email him at allsaintswarden@newtonabbotparishes.co.uk .
St Paul’s Refurbishment Project- Update and Sponsored Walk
The PCC have been working on plans for a major refurbishment project for St Paul’s for some time and faculty permission for these works was granted in the early summer. Sadly, the tenders received for the works were far in excess of our current finances, and so last month, the PCC submitted reduced plans to the DAC for consideration.
These are expected to be agreed at its meeting in early October with the project now estimated to be somewhere around £200,000. Much of this money has been provided by a large legacy for St Paul’s received last year, with the rest hopefully coming from external grants from various charities, internal fundraising and other parish-wide legacies.
So, as part of an appeal for the congregation at St Paul’s to play their part and raise something around £30,000 towards these costs, two of the St Paul’s Congregation (pictured and both called James!) have offered to do a sponsored walk from St Paul’s to Exeter Cathedral.
If you’d like to support them financially, you can do this by scanning the QR code here and choosing your amount to give. And if anyone would like to walk part or all of the way with them or meet them along the route with some refreshments or encouragement, James and James would be thrilled!
Study Course this September: Discipleship Explored.
Alternate Wednesday afternoons from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. starting Wednesday 2nd September in the Vicar’s lounge at St Paul’s. Invitation cards are also available now…
Discipleship Explored has been designed to help followers of Jesus discover the joy, unity, righteousness and love which are theirs in Christ.
This eight-session journey through Paul's letter to the Philippians will help believers young and old to discover the greatest love anyone could ever know, and how to live as disciples of Christ Jesus today. It features documentary-style films and inspiring real-life stories from around the world, Bible studies and weekly reading plans.
More details here: https://www.christianityexplored.org/courses/discipleship-explored/
After School Tea and Toast… The Next Step
DBS checks and date of next meeting.
We had another great meeting this week and are continuing with our plan to run the after-school drop-in on Wednesday afternoons, starting tat the beginning of October.
Everyone on the team needs a valid DBS check which covers you for working with children and young people. To do that, please contact Rob our Safeguarding Lead on safeguarding@newtonabbotparishes.co.uk
Contact Gareth for more information.
A Month of Hospitality
At our meeting earlier this week, the PCC agreed to support September being a Month of Hospitality! Each church community will be looking for a way to eat together, but we are also hoping that as many of us as possible will invite someone from our church community into our homes during that time. It doesn’t need to be grand. It could be for a coffee, a sandwich, or beans on toast. The food doesn’t matter. The welcome does. So, let’s all seek to grow in the gift of hospitality during September. Invite cards will be available soon for you to use…
Invitation cards like the ones below will be available soon for you to use.
"Lunch with God" Location Change
Lunch with God will now be in a new location in the middle of Courtenay Street. Please come along and continue to pray for this outreach that the Invitations of Jesus that are being preaching will be accepted by people and lives will be changed
NEW! Morning Prayer Service, Coffee, Tea and Cake every Thursday All Saints’ Church, Highweek
Starting at 9 a.m. The service will be based on the Church of England Common Worship followed by an opportunity to meet and make friends.