Blogs: Steph's Update - 4th Sept 2020 - news - Exe Valley Mission Community

Blogs: Steph's Update - 4th Sept 2020

This week we have updates on Church opening, Harvest services and APCMs, as well as the usual Zoom / Conference call service, Bible Study and Coffee Morning.

Church Opening

Our churches are open for Holy Communion at 11.15am each week. This week we will be at Loxbeare and next week, 13th September, we will be at Stoodleigh.

It will be essential that you book a seat in church via the church office, or email or by leaving a message on the answer phone by 11am on the Friday before the service. Further details will be sent by email or put on the website during the week. Government guidance asks us all to wear face masks when in church.

Zoom / Conference Call Service:

We continue to look forward to Sunday mornings. They really are a high spot in the week. It’s so wonderful to hear your voices and see your faces. Do please join us again this Sunday morning using either of the following:

To join the conference call from your phone, call 0330 336 0036 and enter PIN 586191

To Join the Zoom Meeting either, click here or

Open Zoom and enter Meeting ID: 882 5387 1603
and Passcode: 773562

Harvest

Our Harvest Celebrations will be a little different this year. There will be an open-air Group Harvest Celebration at Calverleigh on 13 September 2020 at 3.00pm – weather permitting. Everyone is very welcome, but please let the church office know if you are planning to come.

In addition, we are planning some further services, which will be online and can be accessed via our website.

The first Exe Valley Online will be Exe Valley Online Harvest and will be available to view from October. This will include harvest songs, prayers and photographs taken locally. Hopefully there will be places you recognise!

We would love to include as many photographs as possible, from around the Mission Community. Maybe you have a photograph of something that sums up the Harvest season? It could be a photo of vegetables you have grown, chutney you have made, apples in your garden, tractors in the field… the possibilities are endless.

Please send your photographs to Dawn Williams by 19th September 2020 (dawnannwilliams1@gmail.com or on WhatsApp 07733949295)

If your photograph(s) are difficult to send, you might need to use WeTransfer which allows photographs to be sent more easily.

If you know of any children who would like to take a photo or create a harvest picture we would like to include those too. My thanks to Stephen Roche for all his hard work.

APCMs

This week we will resume our round of APCM’s, as we were only able to complete two before lockdown. Please pray for us as we seek God’s will and guidance for the future.

Coffee Morning

Even though things are slowly changing, we continue to meet together on Wednesday mornings at 10.30am. Although some of us are able to get out and about more, it is not true for everyone, so it’s good to keep this contact going. Everyone is very welcome.

Join Zoom Coffee Morning, click here, or

Open Zoom and enter Meeting ID: 873 9995 0935 and Passcode: 065314