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News
Website Updates
We have added lots of sermons and prayers to the website and will keep adding to this.
There are many growing pages on the website too. For the latest updates have a look at:
- News - this page!
- Social Events
- Services
- Floodlight Sponsors
- Interactive map of the Churchyard
New Service Times
To fit in with our new Partnership Churches and ensure we can have sustainable Ministry, we are changing our Sunday Morning service times. From 3rd October our Sunday Morning service will start at 9:30am (instead of 10am). This is the only service time affected (our other Sunday services will still be at 8am and 6pm). Please note however that the 5th Sunday is a Partnership Service (rotating at St Saviours, St Michael's, St Peter's and All Saints') and this will always start at 10am.
Sunday School
We are going to restart the Sunday School from September 2010. This will run every Sunday as follows:
- 1st Sunday - Family Service (in Church)
- 2nd Sunday - Breakfast Club (in hall). Starts 15 mins before the service!
- 3rd Sunday - Sunday School (meet in Church and then to hall)
- 4th Sunday - Sunday School (meet in Church and then to hall)
- 5th Sunday - 10am Partnership Service (rotating at St Saviours, St Michael's, St Peter's and All Saints') - always at 10am.
All events start at the same time as the service (currently 10am, but moving to 9:30am), except the Breakfast Club which starts 15 minutes before the service (9:45->9:15) to allow time for the children to eat and make crafts.
Please feel free to stay and help, or to join the service.
We are going to tidy up & repair some of the graves in our churchyard. Graves are really the responsibiliy of the family, but there is a limited amount of work that we can do. If you are already looking after a grave or do/don't want us to look at a particular grave, then please let us know. This article appeared in the Evening post.
We are in the process of acquiring a voice recorder to record our services. If anyone would like a copy of the service (on a regular or one-off basis), perhaps because of illness or holidays, then please let Andy know.
Mary is going to run a Tot's Praise service for all the pre-school children at 9:30am on the first Wednesday of the month (during term-time, starting in October). There will be refreshments, followed by a short, fun service and craft making time, followed by a snack. All children and parents welcome. For further information, please contact Mary.
View the photos when Eileen left for Canada.
View the photos from our Summer Fayre.
The third of our Spotlight interviews is now online; read all about Di's chat with Malcolm Strange.
Jessica has created some new pages for us:
The second of our Spotlight interviews is now online; read all about Di's chat with Martin Clacker.
View the video and photos from our 2009 Barn Dance.
The first of our Spotlight interviews is now online; read all about Debbie's chat with Colin Lunt.
We had a lovely service at St Michael's on 23rd November as part of the new Fromeside Partnership of Churches. We took six different shaped candles to the front to give thanks for all the different ministries in the church and all the good work that people do. It was interesting to note that although they were all different shapes and colours, they all burned brightly with the same flame. It was a delight to see how another church conducts their services. Tea, coffee and biscuits were brought round to everyone afterwards - what service!
This is our clergy, from left to right: Jane Tailby, Jackie Sherlock, Malcolm Strange, Frank Smith, Martin Clacker, Howard Smith, Colin Lunt and Mike Swain
This month of course marks the start of our Church year and Advent is well under way. We have some special Christmas services and lots of Carol singing planned.
The Fromeside Partnership of Churches is now well under way. We had an inauguration service in St Saviour's last month and have our first service together as a partnership on 23rd of this month at St Michael's, Winterbourne.
We have also put some of the pictures from Janet Lunt's excellent Earth Connect Exhibition at Frampton Cotterell onto the website.
The Ecclesiastical and Civil Parish boundaries of Frampton Cotterell, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down have now been added to our Parish Boundary map. This shows how you can live in one Civil Parish, but in a different Church Parish. All very confusing, so hopefully the map will help sort it out!
We have a busy month with our Dedication (birthday) service and the Fromeside Parish Partnership service coming up.
It is very exciting to be able to announce the date for the inauguration of the Fromeside Partnership. The service will be held on Tuesday 14th October at 7:30pm at St Saviour's Church. It will be presided over by Bishop Lee of Swindon, supported by the Archdeacon of Kingswood & South Gloucestershire, the Venerable Alan F. Hawker.
During this service, the licences of five priests will be extended to cover the four participating parishes. At the same event, the licences of appointed Lay Readers will be extended to operate within the Partnership.
St Peter's Church, Frampton Cotterell have a very good page giving an update on the partnership. Note that this link is to a "Framed" page; once on the page, click on the "St Peter's Home page" link to see the rest of their site.
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During the Summer we have added some new pictures in our banner at the top of each page and created some new webpages that you may be interested in visiting:
We also have some info on the upcoming event Earth Connect and photos from our Summer Fayre.
We are in the process of organising lots of exciting services and events for September and October 2008. Have a look at our services and social pages for more information.
At a dedication service on Sunday 13th July in St Peter's Church, Frampton Cotterell, Rev Martin Clacker was licensed as Priest in Charge of the Parishes of Frampton Cotterell, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down. Rev Jane Tailby, Rev Mark Evans and Rev Malcolm Strange were re-licensed as curates to the three parishes. The service was conducted by the Archdeacon of Malmesbury, the Ven. Alan Hawker and the sermon, about 'Class A' clergy, was preached by Bishop Lee of Swindon.
As a parish we would like to extend out warmest greetings to Rev. Clacker and we look forward to working together in the future. We hope all will support the Fromeside Partnership when fully launched later in the year. At this serivce, our own Rev. Colin Lunt will be licensed to officiate at the other churches of St Peter, Frampton Cotterell, St Michael, Winterbourne and All Saints', Winterbourne Down.
St Saviour's Church PCC (Parochial Church Council) AGM is on 23rd April 2008 at 7:30pm in the church hall. If you would like to get involved, you can apply for a post on the PCC or take up a specific and more active role within the church. Listed below are some of the vacancies, but help is always appreciated with anything:
- Deanery Synod (council) Representative
- Local Ecumenical Partnership Representative
- Verger
- Sacristan
- Representative for The Leprosy Mission (which is one of our supported charities)
- PCC subcommittees : Youth, Stewardship, Mission, Pastoral
If you would like to know more about these posts, speak to the Vicar or a member of the PCC.
The Parochial Church Council discusses many aspects of the life of the church, and has certain legal responsibilities. It meets about six times a year in addition to the Annual General Meeting at which churchwardens and new PCC members are elected. PCC meetings are open to anyone from the congregation who would like to come, and agendas and minutes are likewise available to anyone on request.
