Category: Past Events
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🌈 Stay & Play at St Mary’s Church 🌈
Join us for a relaxed morning of play, songs, stories, and chat! 🗓 Wednesday 18th February⏰ 10:00 – 11:30 am📍 St Mary’s Church, Bideford Perfect for children under 5 and their carers 💛(Siblings up to age 8 are very welcome!) ✨ Toys✨ Snacks✨ Songs✨ Books✨ Story time✨ Baby corner✨ Play doh✨ Craft table✨ Parachute games…
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🎼 Evensong at Monkleigh – 4pm 🎼
There’s something deeply comforting about Evensong — unhurried prayer, scripture, and that quiet end-of-day peace. Join us this Sunday: 📍 Monkleigh – Sunday 8th February – 4:00pm Evensong A beautiful way to close the weekend.
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🌊✨ Celtic Communion – Landcross – 11am ✨🌿
You are warmly welcome to our Celtic Communion service — a gentle, reflective style of worship with a sense of God’s presence in creation and everyday life. 📍 Landcross – Sunday 8th February – 11:00am Come for stillness, grace, and deep peace.
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☕✨ Holy Grounds – Saturday 14th February ✨☕
Join us for Holy Grounds, a relaxed and welcoming café-style space to gather, chat, and enjoy good company. 🕥 10:30 am – 12:30 pmHosted by Reflections ☕ Hot drinks available🍰 Cake will be available Alongside Holy Grounds, there will be a bric-a-brac stall helping to raise funds for the church and its ongoing work supporting…
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🕯️🎶 Taizé Prayer Service – Thursday 5th February, 7pm 🎶🕯️
A peaceful evening of prayer with simple songs, silence, scripture, and candlelight. If you’re carrying a lot, feeling tired, or simply longing for stillness — this gentle service is for you. 📍 Littleham – 7:00pm Led by April Saltmarsh
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🕯️ Sunday Service – Candlemas 🕯️
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple This Sunday we gather to celebrate Candlemas — a beautiful moment in the Church year when we remember Mary and Joseph bringing the infant Jesus to the Temple, and Simeon recognising Him as “a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Israel.” Candlemas marks the…
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🙏 Prayer for Christian Unity 🙏Thursday 22nd | 12:00–12:30pm📍 St Mary’s Church, Bideford
You are warmly invited to join us for a short, peaceful time of prayer as we come together in the spirit of Christian unity — giving thanks for the wider Church and praying for deeper love, understanding, and togetherness in Christ. ✨ 12 noon – 12:30 pm☕ Refreshments afterwards (everyone welcome to stay for a…
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Building on Firm Foundations
As we reflect this week on what it means to build our lives on firm foundations, today is a good moment to ask: What am I building my life upon? Prayer doesn’t need to be complicated. It can be as simple as asking God to help us listen more closely, love more deeply, and live more…
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Holy Grounds – First Gathering of the Year
Saturday 10th January | 10.30am–12.30pm We are delighted to welcome you to the first Holy Grounds of the year on Saturday 10th January, from 10.30am to 12.30pm. Holy Grounds is a relaxed, informal space to pause and begin the new year together over good coffee, conversation, and companionship. Whether you come regularly or are joining…
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Plough Service 2026
Sunday 25th January | 3.00pm You are warmly invited to join us for the Plough Service 2026, taking place on Sunday, 25th January at 3.00 pm in The Barn, Melbury Farm, Parkham (EX39 5PP). This traditional rural service is an opportunity to pause at the start of the farming year, to give thanks, to pray…
