Tag: StMarysBideford
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🌿 St Mary’s Charity Shop – Online
Did you know you can support St Mary’s Church simply by shopping online? We sell donated items through Vinted and eBay, turning pre-loved treasures into support for our community. Every purchase helps fund community initiatives, outreach, and church activities. Take a look and see what you might discover. Vintedhttps://www.vinted.co.uk/member/3130646176 eBayhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/ma878452 Thank you for helping turn…
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✨ Easter Sunday Celebration at St Mary’s ✨
Easter is the heart of the Christian story — a day of hope, joy, and new life.We warmly invite you to celebrate this special morning with us at St Mary’s Church, Bideford. 📅 Sunday 5th April⏰ Service begins at 10:30am Our Easter service will be a joyful celebration including: 🎶 Lively hymns and worship songs✝️…
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🌿 Palm Sunday Procession & Communion – Join Us
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, a time when we remember Jesus’ journey to the cross and prepare our hearts for the joy of Easter. This year we warmly invite everyone in our community to gather together for our Palm Sunday Procession and Communion Service. 📅 Sunday 29th March🕘 Procession begins at 9:00am📍…
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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…
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🌿 All Age Service – “Be a Neighbour to All”
Join us at St Mary’s Church, Bideford for a relaxed and friendly All Age Service for everyone in the community. 📅 Sunday 8th March⏰ 9:30am A service designed for all ages, with: ✨ Songs🎨 Crafts🎲 Games🙏 Prayer Whether you come every week or are simply curious, you’ll find a warm welcome waiting. All are welcome.…
