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Next Service:

24th March at 10:30 am.

Holy Communion
(Palm Sunday )

The next village event will be A Talk on Landkey Hedgehogs on 26th March 2024 at 7:30 PM in Landkey Village Hall

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Our Mothering Sunday service on 10th March 2024 was ably led by Anne Foster, who is pictured here on the left with Revd Cathy Scoffield and Church warden, Hazel Price. Image courtesy of Charles Waldron 10th March 2024.
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Revd John Ewington led our very enjoyable Candlemas service on 28th January 2024. Image courtesy of Charles Waldron 28th January 2024.
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In Brief

Next Service:

24th March at 10:30 am.

Holy Communion
(Palm Sunday )

The next village event will be A Talk on Landkey Hedgehogs on 26th March 2024 at 7:30 PM in Landkey Village Hall

Diocesan Magazine

Click here to visit the Exeter Diocese website

A link to the magazine is available on the Home page.

Safeguarding

View our Safeguarding policy

Diocese of Exeter Safeguarding contacts

Recent Images Highslide JS
Our Mothering Sunday service on 10th March 2024 was ably led by Anne Foster, who is pictured here on the left with Revd Cathy Scoffield and Church warden, Hazel Price. Image courtesy of Charles Waldron 10th March 2024.
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Revd John Ewington led our very enjoyable Candlemas service on 28th January 2024. Image courtesy of Charles Waldron 28th January 2024.
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14th Mar 2024 - 17th Mar 2024

Weekly bulletin

Revd Cathy has introduced a weekly bulletin which gives information relating to services due to take place in the next week as well as any diary dates or other notices. It is not intended to replicate material in the monthly magazine nor to replace it, but rather to give congregation members as much information as possible on forthcoming services to enable them to be prepared beforehand.

Cathy is sending out copies by email to anyone who would like receive one. If you would like to add your name to her weekly bulletin mailing list, please send us an email on the link below, or see one of us (e.g. Charles) in church. Printed copies will also be placed in the church.

The bulletin for 17th - 24th March 2024 is available to view or download here. 

There is also a Lent poster available here which shows the services taking place across the Mission Community and Diocese during Lent.

1st Mar 2024 - 10th Mar 2024

Mothering Sunday weekend

All are welcome to join us as we celebrate Mothering Sunday on Saturday 9th March as well as on Sunday 10th.

The church will be open from 2-4 pm on 9th March, providing an opportunity to bring Mum - or anyone else - to look around our beautiful church. There will be free light refreshments and children's activities to take home.

We will then hold our Mothering Sunday service at 10:30 am on 10th March. It will be a Family Service at which the worship will be informal and flowers will be distributed to the ladies as part of the proceedings.

A poster is available to view or download here:

1st Mar 2024 - 1st Mar 2024

Candlemas service

Revd John Ewington led a very enjoyable Candlemas service for us on 28th January 2024. In his sermon, he reminded us that this celebrates the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple by his parents, 40 days after his birth.

This commemmoration has featured in church services since the Roman emperor, Constantine, himself a Christian, instituted it to give thanks for the ending of a plague. Many centuries later, Henry VIII declared that Candlemas should be celebrated in churches across the country.

After the main part of the service, John led a procession to the font with congregation members bearing candles to acknowledge Christ as the Light of the World.

A photograph of John bearing a candle is shown on this page.

25th Feb 2024 - 10th Mar 2024

Lent services

To mark the period of Lent, which began on 14th February, there will be several special services at St Paul’s and across the Four Ways Mission Community. These are detailed below under the Weekly Bulletin article. All will be welcome to come along.

We will also be marking Lent at our Sunday services over the next few weeks and, once again, all will be welcome.

1st Jan 2024 - 14th Jan 2024

A Happy New Year

We wish all who visit our website a very happy New Year. It has been an especially enjoyable time at St Paul's and our other Mission Community churches with many people attending our services and events.

Services continue as we look forward to celebrating Epiphany during January, culminating in Candlemas at the end of the month. All are welcome to join us.

31st Dec 2023 - 14th Jan 2024

A busy Christmas

It proved to be a busy time for St Paul's as we held our Christmas services. They proved to be very successful with the church well filled especially for our Nativity service on 17th December, our Carols by Candlelight service on 21st December and our Christingle Nativity on 24th December.

Ange Bellamy skilfully led our Nativity, drawing on members of the congregation, including several children, to perform the various characters who played important roles at the time of the birth of Jesus. It was all unrehearsed but, under Ange's direction, it all came together with much enjoyment had by all.

At our Carols by Candlelight service, we were joined by the members of Landkey Sings, the local choir which specialises in singing carols which once would have been heard in the village but had lapsed during the middle of the 20th century. We were also joined by organist Philip Price and his friend Shirleyann who played the flute. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening at which as many as 150 were present.

The Christingle Nativity is always a popular service, particularly with families with small children, and this year's was no exception, with at least 90 filling the pews. Hymns were sung from words and audio delivered through the audiovisual system. Revd Cathy and Anne Foster related the Nativity story with congregation members invited to join in with actions such as sheep bleating! The main event, of course, was the explanation of and distribution of the Christingles.

The concert held by Exmoor Carolers on 8th December proved to be popular and raised £300 for North Devon Hospice, with a further £100 going to church funds.

Our "normal" services on 10th December and on the morning of 24th December were appreciated by those who made up our congregations. Christmas Mass, also on 24th, was likewise enjoyed, as we celebrated the imminent arrival of Christmas day.