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ST. PETER’S, TIVERTON &
ST. THOMAS’S, CHEVITHORNE
WITH COVE
April 2022
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www.stpeterstiverton.org.uk
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Dear Parish Magazine Reader,
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has been available, free of charge, online and, for the last few months, in hard
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magazine) will be reinstated.
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Thank you.
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I am the Resurrection and the Life
Jesus said, ‘I am the Resurrection.’ He had repeatedly promised, to those
who believe in him, that he would ‘raise them to life on the last day’ (John
6.39, 40, 44, 54). Jesus said ‘I am the Life.’ Life, especially eternal life, is a
characteristic word in John’s gospel. John tells us that he wrote his gospel so
that people might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
through their faith they might have life (20.31). One of the best loved verses
in the Bible tells us that ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only
Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal
life’ (John 3.16). Jesus said, ‘I have come in order that you might have life –
life in all its fullness’ (John 10.10).
How are we to obtain eternal life? It is found by venturing (John 12.25). Self
preservation may be the first law of natural life, but it is certainly not the
first law of spiritual life. Life is found not in self-protection, but in self-
giving.
It is found by listening and obeying. The words of Jesus are spirit and life
(John 6.63). The commands of God bring eternal life (John 12.50). But it is
no use hearing if we do not obey. Through obedience comes knowledge, and
fellowship with God, and in that fellowship is eternal life.
It is found by worshipping. One of the com-mands of Jesus was to remember
him in the sacrament of bread and wine (Luke 22.17-20). Jesus said, ‘Who-
ever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life’ (John 6.54) because
‘whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in
him’ (John 6.56). To be united with Jesus is to share his life, and his life is
eternal.
Above all, eternal life is to be found by believing. ‘To believe in Jesus Christ
means to be quite certain of his unique relationship to God, and then to
accept as binding every one of his commands and to accept as certain
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beyond all doubt his promises. A life lived in that total committal to Jesus
Christ is eternal life’ (William Barclay).
To have eternal life is to be quite certain that nothing can separate us from
Jesus Christ and his love. It does not mean ease and comfort. It does not mean
escape from the trials which witness to Christ may bring. It does not mean that
we shall be free from the troubles and sorrows of this present world. But it
does mean that we can be sure that, in all our trials and tribulations, we are not
alone, because Jesus is present with us through them all, and in him we can
overcome them.
Only in Jesus can we share eternal life. He did not say ‘I show you the
Resurrection and the Life.’ Nor did he say, ‘I give you the Resurrection and
the Life.’ He said, ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life.’ It is only through a
personal relationship with Jesus that we can share his life.
The life that Jesus offers is not, of course, physical life. Those who believe in
Jesus must die as all human beings must die. The life that Jesus offers is the
life of God himself, and that life cannot be ended by death. When our mortal
bodies die we shall be given a resurrection body. When we pass through the
gate of death we shall share the life of God in heaven. For Jesus is the
Resurrection as well as the Life. Our relationship with him cannot be broken.
He, who is the source of all life, has conquered death, and if we are united
with him, then our life with him cannot be ended by death.
The death of those whom we love will still bring grief and heartache and
loneliness, but for those who believe, death is no longer a final event. Death
becomes the gateway to a fuller life. We believe that beyond death we shall
meet again those ‘whom we have loved long since and lost awhile.’ (John
Henry Newman).
Jesus said, ‘I am the Resurrection and the Life.’ This claim is the guarantee
that, through him, we can enter into the life of God which nothing can destroy.
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The Akond of Swat
My Labrador, Alice, and I love to walk along the Grand Western Canal in
various locations. One of these is beside the Longboats at East Manley where I
can indulge in a little fantasy and memories of messing about in boats. Why do
people name their boats with such originality? When we named our sailing
boats, they were personal to the family, Felicity (after me!), Emily Ann (after
Derek’s Grandma) and Thomasina (because we had both worked at St
Thomas’s hospital).
But The Akond of Swat! There it is at East Manley. I looked it up on
Wikipedia because it fascinated me.
‘The Yousafzai State of Swat was a kingdom established in 1849 ruled by
chiefs known as Akhunds. It was a princely state in alliance with the British
Indian Empire between 1926 and 1947 when the state became part of the
newly independent Pakistan. The area it covered is between the present day
districts of Swat, Dir, Buner and Shangla.’
Why would you name a boat after it? There is another branch to my
investigation. Edward Lear, the poet and author of The Owl and the Pussycat,
wrote other nonsense and irreverent verse including The Akond of Swat, in
which he takes delight in finding words that rhyme with swat. Here it is!
Who or why, or which, or what
Is the Akond of SWAT?
Is he tall or short or dark or fair?
Does he sit on a stool or a sofa or a chair
Or SQUAT, The Akond of Swat?
Is he wise or foolish, young or old?
Does he drink his soup and coffee cold
Or HOT, The Akond of Swat?
Does he sing or whistle, jabber or talk?
And when riding abroad does he gallop or walk?
Or TROT, The Akond of Swat?
Does he wear a turban, a fez or a hat?
Does he sleep on a mattress or bed or a mat?
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Or COT? The Akond of Swat?
When he writes a copy in round-hand size
Does he cross his T’s and finish his I’s
With a DOT? The Akond of Swat?
Can he write a letter concisely clear,
without a speck or a smudge or a smear?
Or BLOT? The Akond of Swat?
Do his people like him extremely well?
Or do they when they can, rebel
Or PLOT? At the Akond of Swat?
And so on for another six verses before we come to:
Does he teach his subjects to roast and bake?
Does he sail about on an inland lake?
In a YACHT? The Akond of Swat?
Someone, or nobody, knows I wot,
Who or which or why or what
Is the Akond of Swat!
It’s a good name for a boat because such fun can be had messing about in
them!
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by April 1012
Update on the Reordering is complete. This was quite a tricky
operation as the opening removes
I’m sorry to say that this month’s even more stonework in that corner
report for the magazine is going to be and next to the window opening. All
quite short as circumstances have is well however, and the north-west
prevented as much progress being corner of the church still stands!
made as we had hoped for.
The external toilet block makes good
The changes of design that have been progress and although they cannot be
forced on us by having to overcome easily seen, the internal partition
the problems with the vaults below walls have been completed. These are
floor level have required us to order supporting walls, so now all the
different materials and these, at structure is in place for a start to be
present, all seem to be on long made on the roof and its finishes.
delivery.
Let’s hope that by next month I’ll be
Last month we were waiting for the able to report much better progress
special steel beams for the new and the results will be obvious for us
baptistery area. These have arrived all to see.
and the structural works to the floor
are now complete. We are now
David Ricks 13th March 2022
waiting for the special kerb stones to
edge the step up to the font platform.
This will be of a lighter colour than
the general flooring, the
differentiation being for the sake of
safety.
A woman rolled an elderly man in a
So the font has not yet moved and the wheelchair into the reception area of
finished west end awaits handover to the doctor’s surgery. As she went to
us. Completion of the baptistery is the receptionist’s desk, the man sat
now some five weeks behind my there, alone and silent. After a few
programme which was hoping for a moments a little boy slipped off his
completion of the major works by mother’s lap and walked over to the
Easter. I’m sorry that this is now wheelchair. Placing his hand on the
looking impossible. man’s, he said companionably, ‘I
On a positive note however, the new know just how stupid you feel. My
enlarged structural opening in the mum makes me ride in the pushchair,
west wall, for the door to the toilets, too.’
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The Revd Gordon Millier please him that we do at this present,
… so that at the last we may come to
On 21 February the community of St his eternal joy’.
Thomas’s Chevithorne suffered a
severe and painful loss with the death We were all very fortunate indeed
of Gordon Millier. It was just over a that our lives were touched by
year after his wife Beth, so well- Gordon and Beth. She was a talented
known to us all in St Peter’s as well painter and a long-time servant of the
as Chevithorne, herself died. Mothers’ Union. Gordon was a firm
and encouraging friend, trusted and
Gordon and Beth retired to Tiverton trusting, sensitive and shrewd, and a
in 1993 after his ordination in Wells person whose teaching of the faith
Cathedral and many years of ministry was made compelling by the fact that
in Somerset. The country parishes in he lived that faith.
which he was the incumbent were in
Congresbury, then Weare with We thank God for every
Badgworth and Biddisham, and remembrance of this fine Christian
finally a cluster of parishes very near couple, and now, as they are once
to Wells itself – Pilton with again united, our special thanks for
Croscombe, North Wotton and Gordon as we feel the immediacy of
Dinder. With his retirement he was our loss. We know, as we pray for
asked by Tony Gibson to take care of them both that they may ‘rest in
Chevithorne, and this he did with peace and rise in glory’, that indeed
personal warmth and generosity of they do. They have come ‘at the last
spirit and a wholehearted … to his eternal joy’.
commitment to the Christian gospel. David Catchpole
In 2003 Gordon was full of vim and
vigour; in 2022 physical frailty had Gordon and Beth Millier
come with age, but he was still to be
found regularly in his place on
Sunday mornings in St Thomas’s
Church. There he was able as a priest
to pronounce the absolution at
Morning Prayer. His last words,
spoken with firmness of voice and
faith, were therefore the deeply
moving prayer ‘that those things may15
An Easter reflection with a heavy stone rolled across the
doorway. Yet the following Sunday, the
‘When you die, that’s it. Nothing. Out third day after His death, His followers
like a light.’ That’s what the man in the claimed that they had met Him, seen
pub said, and his mates all nodded. It Him, talked with Him.
seemed to make sense. After all, we So certain was their belief that nothing
know what ‘dead’ means: dead leaves, could make them recant it. Not ridicule,
dead batteries, dead fish, dead pets . . . not torture, not even death itself. They
and dead people, to be honest. While we couldn’t deny His resurrection, because
recognise that it’s all too easy to go from they were absolutely convinced that it
alive to dead, we’ve got serious doubts had happened. Plenty of clever and
about the possibility of any return powerful people at the time had a vested
journeys. interest in proving them wrong. It
Which is why Christians have an uphill shouldn’t have been difficult to prove
task at Easter. Jesus was a great man, and that a dead man had stayed dead,
people want to remember how He died. especially when you have at your
Fair enough. But it starts getting disposal the resources of the greatest
complicated when Christians insist that empire in history. Yet they didn’t do it,
Jesus died - but didn’t stay dead - in fact, because it couldn’t be done.
that He’s alive now. That ‘return Still today millions of people all over the
journey’ has happened, they say. world believe that Jesus did in fact rise
That’s the problem about Easter, from the dead. They include brilliant
Christians persisting in what sounds like scientists and philosophers as well as
a ridiculous belief. If they just dropped plenty of ‘ordinary’ men and women of
the resurrection bit and concentrated on all ages. They believe it because they
the wonderful teaching of Jesus and His respect the witness of those first
example of generosity, compassion and Christians, and because in many cases
love then everybody would find their own lives have been transformed by
Christianity much more believable. a relationship with Jesus - a relationship
Wouldn’t that make sense? And that wouldn’t make sense if He were
wouldn’t that fill the churches again? dead!
Well it might (or, more likely, it might Christians don’t put their faith in a dead
not). But in any case, the trouble is that it hero from the past, but in someone who
wouldn’t be Christianity at all. The faith is alive and active in their own lives and
of Christians actually depends on the in the world. That, in a nutshell, is the
resurrection of Jesus, and always has real message of Easter.
done, right from the earliest days. Canon David Winter (Parish Pump)
After the crucifixion the body of Jesus
was taken down from the cross by some
of His friends and put in a rock tomb16
April 2022 Diary
Sat 2nd 10:00 am Bell ringing peal St Peter’s
Sun 3rd 8:00 am Holy Communion (BCP) St Peter’s
Mothering 9:30 am Morning Prayer Online St Peter’s
Sunday 10.00 am Morning Prayer Chevithorne
10:15 am Holy Communion St Peter’s
Tue 5th 11.00 am Eucharist St Andrew’s
Wed 6th 10:30 am Coffee Morning online
Thu 7th 10.00 am Holy Communion St Paul’s
Sun 10th 9:30 am Morning Prayer Online St Peter’s
Palm Sunday 10:15 am Holy Communion St Peter’s
Tue 12th 11.00 am Eucharist St Andrew’s
Wed 13th 10:30 am Coffee Morning online
2:00 pm Mothers' Union Meeting
Thu 14th 10.00 am Holy Communion St Paul’s
Sun 17th 9.15 am Morning Prayer Online
Easter Day 10.00 am Morning Prayer Chevithorne
10:15 am Holy Communion St Peter’s
Tue 19th 11.00 am Eucharist St Andrew’s
Wed 20th 10:30 am Coffee morning online
Thursday 21st 10.00 am Holy Communion St Paul’s
Sun 24th 9:15 am Morning Prayer Online
2nd of Easter 10:15 am Holy Communion St Peter’s
Tue 26th 11.00 am Eucharist St Andrew’s
Wed 27th 10:30 am Coffee Morning online
Thu 28th 10.00 am Holy Communion St Paul’s17
Passiontide and Holy Week at St Andrew’s
Tuesday 5th April - 11.00am Stations of the Cross
Readings, prayers & Passiontide hymns as we follow the Way of the Cross
Tuesday 12th April – 11.00am Said Eucharist
Maundy Thursday 14th April – 11.00am Sung Eucharist
with reception of Holy Oils, Transfer of the Blessed Sacrament,
Stripping of the Sanctuary
Good Friday 15th April – 2.00pm Liturgy
with dramatic reading of the St John Passion,
the Solemn Prayers and Holy Communion
From the Registers
Baptisms
9 January Henry Thomas Mitchell St Peter's
6 February Bowen Parkinson St Peter's
Funerals
14 January Anne Brooke Chevithorne
21 January Ivor Denyer Chevithorne
21 January Joan Gibson St Peter's
28 January Jill Taylor Chevithorne
28 February Michael Burden Chevithorne
11 March Brian Barnett Chevithorne
25 March Gordon Millier Chevithorne18
Amoretti LXVIII
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
Didst make thy triumph over death and sin;
And having harrowed hell didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win:
This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin,
And grant that we for whom thou diddest die
Being with thy dear blood clean washed from sin,
May live for ever in felicity.
And that thy love we weighing worthily,
May likewise love thee for the same again;
And for thy sake that all like dear didst buy,
With love may one another entertain.
So let us love, dear love, like as we ought.
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund Spenser (1552/3–1599)
The Parish Magazine is looking for your contributions!
We all enjoy hearing about the reordering, the Mothers Union, a new recipe
etc. but we would like to hear more about you.
Ideas include writing an anecdote, it might be about lock down, holidays, your
work/first job, school days, other churches or anything else that springs to
mind.
You could choose your favourite poem, hymn or even a book/film and write
about why it is special to you and what might recommend it to other readers.
Photos are always welcome too.
Please don’t expect all submissions to immediately appear in the next
magazine. We would hope to use them all over the course of time so keep
them coming in - it’s never too late.
Please email parishmag@stpeterstiverton.org.uk19
The Annual Parochial Church Meeting
Make a note of it, please: Thursday 28 April! It’s APCM time soon, Thursday
28 April at 7.00 pm in St Peter’s, to be precise. The Annual Parochial Church
Meeting is when we review what has already happened and turn our thoughts
to what we hope may happen. This year we shall hope to hold it in the church,
a gesture in the direction of the normality that we will surely see when reor-
dering is done and dusted. It would be good if you could join in the planning
process.
What we have to do in personal terms is elect three PCC members in place of
those whose term has expired (Deborah Lal and Vicky Stuckey, to whom we
offer thanks, after their first three year term) or who are moving away
(Catherine Makepeace, who has contributed to our life as a community in so
many ways, not least as safeguarding officer as well as electoral roll officer,
and whom we will greatly miss as she leaves us for Kent).
Additionally, church wardens need to be elected or re-elected – take your pick!
But the election of our representatives on the Deanery Synod does not arise
this year. That will be for 2023.
Please get in touch with me if you have a nomination in mind and I will let
you have the required form to fill in. Or keep an eye open for it in church.
Forms should be returned to either Gill Heard, Bill Zarrett or myself. Many
thanks.
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We look forward to seeing you.21 Prayer Diary for April 1 For all with a birthday this month. 2 For anyone afflicted by unhappy memories. 3 Thank you for the on line church services. 4 For all who have gone to live in a care home. 5 Pray for our families. 6 For young people who have ceased to like school. 7 For those who are still suffering from Covid 19. 8 For all to be married soon. 9 For young people who are caring for their parents. 10 PALM SUNDAY. May we give Christ triumphal entry in our hearts. 11 Pray for the bereaved. 12 For families under stress. 13 For our teachers. 14 For neglected pets. 15 GOOD FRIDAY. Our prayers of gratitude to Jesus! 16 Pray for those who have lost a good friend. 17 EASTER SUNDAY. May the world`s most famous victory inspire us. 18 Dear God, may yesterday`s ceremony stay in our hearts. 19 A private prayer for a personal concern. 20 For our scientists and their research. 21 QUEEN`S BIRTHDAY. We pray for a special blessing on her. 22 Dear Lord, bless all efforts for peace in the world. 23 ST GEORGE. We ask for your blessing and guidance for England. 24 Thank you, Lord for the memories of last Sunday. 25 We thank you for our helpful neighbours. 26 For the terminally ill. 27 Pray for Ukraine. 28 For all associations who work against cruelty. 29 For our farmers. 30 Thank you for Spring, dear Lord.
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goodbye to Jean in the meaningful
service taken by the Revd. Keith
Gale.
Caroline told us some interesting
On Wednesday April 13th at 2pm in
stories about the keeping of Lent
the Baptist Church rooms Helen
going back to early Christian and
Fensome will be leading us in
Medieval times and up to the present
‘PRAYERS and THOUGHTS FOR
day. Fasting in the early church was
HOLY WEEK’ Together we will be
taken very seriously. Shrove Tuesday
sharing our favourite bible passages,
was a day for Confession. One
poems, reading, art and music to help
tradition was ‘Jack O’Lent’ when a
us focus on the events of Holy Week.
straw figure like a guy, representing
Please send your contributions to
Judas Iscariot., was pelted with
Helen Fensome at 42, Francis
stones, dragged around the Parish and
Cres cent. or em ail
burnt on Palm Sunday.
helenfens@aol.com.
We know Lent as a time to give up or
All are welcome to join us and
take on new tasks or perhaps work on
afterwards get to know each other
certain parts of our character that we
and catch up on each other’s news
would like to control. Lent of course
over tea and biscuits and perhaps
remembers Jesus’s 40 days in the
cake
wilderness and Jesus’s words: ‘Get
behind me Satan,’ although in the
On March 9th we welcomed the Revd Bible we are not told to observe this.
Caroline Luff and her husband Phillip Caroline finished her talk by saying
to our meeting which was led by Gill that only by observing Lent in some
Heard. We started with prayer for meaningful way can we know the joy
Ukraine and its people and then of Easter Day. Gill thanked Caroline
remembered any of our members who very much for such a thought
were ill and also Jean Webb, who had provoking talk, as we all showed our
been an MU member for many years appreciation in the usual way.
and will be sadly missed by us all.
She passed away last month. 8 of us
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joined her small family and a few In the Diocese of Juba of Juba and
friends and neighbours in saying Rejaf Mothers Union is working to
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Jam & Jerusalem You could add some currants, and the
grated rind of a lemon, to turn this
This month’s recipe comes from into Easter biscuits…..yum.
Judith Kerr, who, in case you didn’t
know, made all that beautiful Scottish
Enjoy, and indeed all the other
Shortbread that was on our Virtual
goodies that the Easter celebrations
Christmas Fair. Yes – absolutely melt
bring. I look forward to having your
in the mouth shortbread.
favourite recipe for next month’s
magazine.
With many Easter Blessings to you
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2 ozs castor sugar Did the name ‘Yousafzai’ ring any
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the edge with the prongs. Bake for 45 province of north-western Pakistan.
mins at 150°C or 140°C fan until Yousafzai became an advocate for
girls' education when she herself was
golden.
still a child, which resulted in the
Taliban issuing a death threat against
Take out of oven, sprinkle with extra her. I recently read her
castor sugar and cut into portions, run autobiography, co-written with
a knife around outside edge then Christina Lamb, which was very
leave in tin to cool. interesting.
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countryside, and watch out by the pond; if you are lucky you just may spot an
otter. There are a variety of walks.
Afterwards rest awhile and enjoy delicious homemade cakes, tea, coffee and
lemonade provided by Children’s Hospice Tiverton Friends Group.
Donations please.
Dogs on leads and well-behaved children are welcome. Bring your camera &
binoculars. Stout footwear advisable. Ample parking.
For more information call Julia 01363 866409 – Sally 01884 25437827
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CHEVITHORNE
VILLAGE HALL
Recently refurbished with new kitchen facilities available to hire
for private parties, children’s parties, clubs, functions, meetings,
etc.
Large hall space and separate smaller room, garden area and
ample car parking facilities
Very reasonable hire rates
For bookings and further details please contact
Imogen Jeffs - 01884 254578 or 07568 541707
WWW.chevithornevillagehall.co.uk
Nursery School for 2-5 year olds
Open 8am-6pm all year round
Free Government funding provider
Highly qualified and experienced staff
Large garden & covered outdoor play area
Access to the surrounding countryside and Knightshayes
Tel: 01884 252161
Please visit our website for more details
Website: www.woodenhousenursery.co.uk
Email: woodenhouse@live.co.uk29
Chevithorne News
We send sympathy to the families of Michael Burden and Brian Barnett whose
services have recently taken place in St Thomas’s.
To the family of The Revd Gordon Millier we offer our sympathy; his funeral
will have been held on Friday March 25th.
Margaret Stacey
Peter Tremlett
The family of the late Peter Tremlett would like to invite you to St Peter's
Church, Uplowman to celebrate his life on May 22nd 2022 at 3 pm and
afterwards at Uplowman Village Hall for refreshments. If you have a
particular memory of Peter you would like to share, please let us know, and
either you can write something to be read out or share something yourself as
part of the service.
For further details or to send memories please email:
sandra.williamson65@gmail.com
‘A lucky escape in the
high winds’
Margaret Stacey30
ST THOMAS’, CHEVITHORNE
SERVICES
Morning Prayer 10.00am 1st Sunday of the month
Holy Communion 10.00am 3rd Sunday of the month
For other services please refer to the Diary
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CHURCH OFFICIALS
RECTOR VACANT
CHURCH WARDENS
Lady Louise Heathcoat Amory
Hayne House EX16 7RE 254492
Mrs Margaret Stacey
Home Farm, Knightshayes EX16 7RF 252569
PCC SECRETARY
Lady Louise Heathcoat Amory
Hayne House EX16 7RE 254492
CHURCH TREASURER
Mr John Ewins
Hayne Cottage, Bolham EX16 7RE 232922
CHEVITHORNE MAGAZINE CORRESPONDENT
VACANT
COVE MAGAZINE CORRESPONDENT
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ORGANISATIONS ATTACHED TO SAINT PETER’S CHURCH
YOUNG CHURCH PRAYER CHAIN
We welcome all children and young For those in need of some supportive
people of whatever age, and like to prayer. Offered in total confidence.
have them in the congregation with (Contact Jean Jenner 256597)
us. Our policy is to enjoy our
children – to see and hear them. FLOWER ARRANGING TEAM.
Supervised activities tailored to the A team who decorate the church at
needs of individual children are festivals and throughout the year.
provided during the 10.15 service. New members always welcome.
Beginners offered tuition.
ALTAR TEAMS Contact Mary Seaton (252018)
Sacristans care for the altar, and with
Servers assist at Holy Communion SUNDAY INTERCESSIONS
on Sundays. (Contact Susan If you are unwell and would like to
Beale252619) be included by name in the prayers
at Parish Communion, or if you
CHOIR would like the name of a friend to be
New members always welcome. included (having first got their
(Contact: Gill Heard permission) please contact Jean
music@stpeterstiverton.org.uk) Jenner 256597.
BELL RINGERS TAPISSERS GROUP
Bells are rung on Sundays and for The tapissers make kneelers for the
Weddings. Practice on Tuesday church. To order a kneeler for a
7.30. loved one, or to commemorate an
(Contact Sheila Scofield, email– event, or for a group connected with
ringers@stpeterstiverton.org.uk) church activities, also if you are
interested in making kneelers, please
MOTHERS’ UNION contact Jane Bonnick 243705.
A Christian fellowship for all
women, married or single. Meets on
the 2nd Wednesday of each month
2.00 – 4.00 at Baptist Church Room.
(Contact Kate Henshall
at tivertonmu@gmail.com)32 ST. PETER’S, TIVERTON
SUNDAY 8.00Holy Communion (BCP) (1st Sunday only)
9.30Morning Prayer online - joint with
The Exe Valley Mission Community
10.15 Holy Communion (CW)
TUESDAY 11.00 Eucharist at Saint Andrew’s
THURSDAY 10.00 Holy Communion at St Paul’s
(Other Services as on Notice Board in Porch)
RECTOR: VACANT
CHURCH OFFICE Tim Bayton, St. Peter’s Church Office EX16 6RP
office@stpeterstiverton.org.uk 242991
READER: David Catchpole, 15 Uplowman Rd. EX16 4LU 252100
pcc@stpeterstiverton.org.uk
CHURCH-WARDENS: Gill Heard, 6, Norwood Road, EX16 6BD 258600
Bill Zarrett, 6 Kestrel Close EX16 6WY 256803
wardens@stpeterstiverton.org.uk
P.C.C.VICE-CHAIRMAN: Mary Seaton, Long Meadow Blundell’s Road,
Tiverton EX16 4NB 252018
CHOIR
ADMINISTRATOR Gill Heard
music@stpeterstiverton.org.uk
P.C.C. SECRETARY: David Catchpole, 15 Uplowman Rd.,EX16 4LU 252100
TREASURER: Chris Shields, 20 Westcott Road, Tiverton EX16 4EY 253945
Chris4920shields@gmail.com
PARISH GIVING Helen & David Wakely, The Firs,
RECORDER: Elm Grove Road, Topsham EX3 0EJ 01392 879179
hwakely1@gmail.com
SAFEGUARDING Catherine Makepeace, 5 St Aubyn’s Villas, EX16 4JB 257689
REPRESENTATIVE: safeguarding@stpeterstiverton.org.uk
MAGAZINE
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
WEBSITE CONTACT: Tim Bayton St. Peter’s Church Office EX16 6RP
office@stpeterstiverton.org.uk 242991
MAGAZINE PRINTING: Garfield Barnett, Cotswold Computing 253148
CotswoldComputing@live.co.uk
CHURCH WEBSITE www.stpeterstiverton.org.uk
INFORMATION
To arrange a Consultation regarding Baptisms, Weddings and other matters
please ring the Office on 242991 or email office@stpeterstiverton.org.uk
Baptized and communicant members of other Churches are always welcome to receive
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