When do you put your Christmas decorations up? Let us know in the comments! Last weekend saw the official 2022 Tiverton Christmas Lights Switch-on and this week we are busy hanging lights and decorations at St Paul's, ready for our Christingle Service on Sunday! Here's our latest blog post from our Vicar, Andy about the brightest light of all this Christmas. It's time to dust off the Christmas albums, saying that of course shows my age! I should rephrase it to ensuring my Chr

What small action could you take this week, to brighten someone else's life? Here's our latest blog post from Licensed Lay Minister, Jude This week I was making the journey from Bristol back to Tiverton Parkway after a day of birthday shopping and lunch with my lovely daughter. We had a great time, a super lunch and lots of fun in the massive Bristol Primark buying small Christmas presents for the family. Then came the train journey, the day after a cancelled strike with disr

Special Guest Blogger, member of our church family and author on grief and loss, Andrea Corrie, brings our latest blog post. Thank you Andrea for sharing this with us! The recent weather we have experienced reminded me of the following: A while ago, my friend Linda, knowing I am a lover of idiomatic phrases, asked me if I had heard the expression, ‘a monkey’s wedding.’ “A monkey’s wedding? Whatever does that mean?” I asked. “It describes the sun shining at the same time as i

Last Sunday at our 10:45am service we sang about shining the light of Jesus 'from the inside out.' In this week's blog post, Sarah Rock-Evans, Ordinand, reminds us of the importance of taking good care of what's on the inside, so there's nothing in the way of that light. 'I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.' John 12:46 A couple of weeks ago I washed my car; it’s not my favourite job and was well overdue so I was ra

As Spring draws ever close there are signs of growth around us as plants reach for the light. This week Sarah our Ordinand encourages you to lean towards the light of Jesus as plants lean towards the Sun. A while ago my eldest daughter was given a seed kit to grow some chives, basil and parsley. She recently decided to have a go at putting this together and seeing what would grow. I wondered if we were perhaps a bit early in the growing season to do this but we assembled the

What makes a 'perfect Christmas?' Here's our latest blog post from Rev. Justin Montague. One of the major fascinations at this time of year are the Christmas adverts. Over recent years we have had John Lewis and Boots focus on the perfect gift for the perfect person. For Tesco it was the perfect Christmas food and Amazon offering everything for the perfect Christmas get-together. Whilst a previous Morrisons advert served up the rather bold claim; ‘Christmas – Morrisons makes

How is God calling you to build His Kingdom here on earth? Here's Jonathan Schnarr, our Youth & Children's minister, with our latest blog post. Last weekend we went to Lee Abbey together with ninety other young people from all over the South West to worship, pray, hang out and share meals with each other. In the midst of storm Arwen and a massive power outage for most of Saturday we encouraged the young people to think about their God-given calling to live life to the full an

Expanding on the theme of light a little further, Rev. Andy Humm, Vicar at St George and St Paul, Tiverton, shares how we can shine with the Light of Christ. Over the last few weeks we have had a number of light bulbs blow in our house. It seemed to be (and perhaps it is the same for you) that none of the spare ones we had lying around seemed to work or either were the wrong size or fitting! It is commonly reported that Thomas Edison took many attempts to perfect the light bu