Tag: Singalong
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🌈 Junior Church at St Mary’s 🌈
Got little ones? We’ve got a space made just for them! 💛 📅 Every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month ⏰ During the 9:30am Service 📍 St Mary’s Church, Church Walk, Bideford EX39 2BP Junior Church is where faith meets fun — a warm, welcoming space where children explore the wonder of God’s love…
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💙 All Age Service: Forgiveness — Freely Received, Freely Given
📅 Sunday 10 May ⏰ 10:30am 📍 St Mary’s Church, Church Walk, Bideford EX39 2BP Some of the hardest words to say are “I forgive you” — and sometimes, “I’m sorry.” Yet forgiveness sits right at the heart of the gospel: a gift freely given to us, and a gift we’re invited to share with…
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🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of Good Living! 🎉
Join us as we give thanks and celebrate 25 wonderful years of the Goodliving Christian Bookshop here in Bideford! 💚📖 📅 Saturday 11th April 2026⏰ 10:30am – 12:30pm📍 Mill Street, Bideford Baptist Church Forecourt There’ll be something for everyone—come along, bring friends, and enjoy a joyful morning together: ✨ Make a Promise Box✨ Bran Tub✨…
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🌿✨ ALL AGE SERVICE – You’re Invited! ✨🌿
There’s something special about being welcomed at the door…A moment of kindness. A place to belong. A reminder that none of us are alone. Join us for “The Friend at Midnight” — a relaxed and joyful All Age Service where everyone is welcome, just as they are. 🕤 Sunday 12th April | 9:30am📍 St Mary’s…
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🌿 Reflections – A Gentle Space for Those Who Are Grieving 🌿
Losing someone we love can leave a space in our lives that feels very quiet and sometimes overwhelming. Grief is different for everyone. For some it brings sadness, for others questions, memories, or simply the feeling of missing someone deeply. At times it can help to talk, and at other times it can help simply…
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☕🍰 St Mary’s Café 🍰☕
(formerly Holy Grounds) Come and enjoy a relaxed morning of tea, coffee, cake, and conversation at St Mary’s Café, kindly hosted by the Mothers’ Union.There will be cards for sale and a Tombola 📅 Saturday 14th March ⏰ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm 📍 St Mary’s Church, Church Walk. Whether you’d like a quiet cup…
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Message of the Week
Be a Neighbour to All In the Gospel story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus reminds us that being a neighbour is not about distance or familiarity. It is about compassion. It is about noticing someone in need and choosing kindness. To be a neighbour means offering a smile, a listening ear, or a helping hand.…
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🌟 Message of the Week
Stepping Into the Light Nicodemus came to Jesus at night. Perhaps he came in darkness because he was unsure.Perhaps because he had questions.Perhaps because faith can feel safer when no one else is watching. And Jesus didn’t turn him away. Instead, He spoke of new birth.Of wind that moves unseen.Of life that begins not with…
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Betty Thompson’s Story
PART ONE I Came Here in 1946 “OK… you know who I am, don’t you?” Betty says it with a playful glint, her eyes bright with mischief. A smile curls at the corner of her mouth, and then comes the soft ripple of laughter — the kind that belongs to someone entirely comfortable in her…
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✨ Message of the Week
Listening, Trusting, Choosing This week’s readings — Genesis 2:15–17; 3:1–7 and Matthew 4:1–11 — draw us into two deeply human moments: encounters with temptation. In Genesis, Adam and Eve stand in a garden of abundance. Nothing is lacking. Yet a voice of doubt quietly asks, “Did God really say…?”A seed of uncertainty is planted. Trust…
