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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.

After School Tea and Toast… The Next Step

Thank you to all those who expressed an interest in being part of a weekly after school drop-in for secondary aged pupils.  We’ve now got enough people interested to gather and discuss the idea further

If you have expressed an interest OR you wish you had, please come to Abbotsbury Church on Wednesday 5th August at 7 p.m. 

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…

"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

Evensong at West Ogwell Church.

The redundant Church at West Ogwell resounded with songs and Psalms of praise last Sunday night as we held our annual Evensong, this time with live music.  (Who’d have thought the St Paul’s Keyboard would run on 6AA batteries!)

The photos below, taken by Mark Portwood will give you a flavour of the event and the refreshments afterwards! 

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. 

Father Matthew’s Biker Pilgrimage

On Thursday 23rd July, following a special Mass at St. John's at 10.00am led by Fr. Robin and after a swift visit to St. Catherine's school for a wave off in the playground, I'll begin a journey of around 9,000km to many of Europe's great Marian shrines. 

Over the coming weeks I'll be travelling by motorcycle through much of Europe, visiting places where Christians have prayed for centuries, meeting people along the way, and gathering the stories that will become my forthcoming book, Two Holy Bikers, to be published by Bloomsbury in October 2027.

Although I'll be many miles away, please know that you will not be far from my thoughts. At every single shrine I visit I shall be praying for our two churches, for every member of our congregations, and for all those who have asked for prayers. In a very real sense, you will be making this pilgrimage with me. If there is one thing I hope you remember whilst I'm away, it is that every candle I light, every Mass I attend, and every prayer I offer at these holy places will include you.

If you would like to follow the journey, I'll be posting regular updates, photographs and videos at www.twoholybikers.com

Buy a Bible for a School Leaver

Each year the Parish buys one of these Bibles for each of the Year 6 children leaving All Saint’s Marsh and Wolborough Church of England Primary Schools.  They cost £13 each, meaning the cost is over £600.

 If you’d like to sponsor one or more Bibles this year, please make your donation in an envelope marked School Bibles and place it in the offering. 

 Alternatively, if you use the tap and pay machines at church, make your donation £13:00 and we will see what the gift is for. 

 Thank you.