You are warmly invited to join us this Sunday at the Bradninch Baptist Church at 10.30am for Bradninch United Worship. Run jointly by St Disens and the Baptist Church, this is a new united service for everyone, to be held monthly on the second Sunday. With space for reflection and great music, it’s a place for everybody whether you regularly worship in Bradninch or elsewhere and wherever you are when it comes to faith. Next month we’ll be back at St Disen’s.
You are warmly invited to join us at St Disen’s on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
At 6.00pm on Christmas Eve we have our Crib Service. This year, to help keep everyone safer we will be holding it in the Churchyard. So please do bring a torch and wrap up warm (and bring a brolly just in case)!
Also on Christmas Eve is Midnight Communion at 11.30pm and on Christmas morning we will be holding a said service of Holy Communion at 9.00am. Both of these services will be in the church.
However, you are able to celebrate and whoever you are able to celebrate with, we wish you a peaceful and joy-touched Christmas.
Christmas Flowers
There is much to look forward to at St Disen’s during this season of Advent. This Sunday, 12th December, 10.30am we launch our new monthly Bradninch United service with a Christmas Special. Then on Monday, 20th December we are hosting Carols by Candlelight. There will be two services, at 5.00pm and 7.30pm. These are ticketed events. Email revollymears@gmail.com to reserve yours. And in between, we have the Tiddlywinks and Messy Church Christmas parties. See What’s On for more details.
This Sunday is Advent Sunday, the start of the churches year and when we light the first candle on our Advent wreath. The different festivals and seasons of the year are marked in the church by the use of different coloured cloths for the altar and lectern. Purple is the colour for Advent, a royal imperial colour. A fitting colour for Christ the King, the son of God. The word, ‘Advent’ comes from the Latin, meaning ‘to come’. The churches year begins then in expectation and hope, awaiting the birth of Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem.
Remembrance Sunday gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect and give thanks for those who gave their lives for our freedom and way of life during the two World Wars and in conflicts since. We give thanks too for all who safely returned home.
Our Act of Remembrance will begin at the War Memorial outside the Guildhall at 10.45am before moving down to St Disen’s Church for a Service of Remembrance.
Congratulations to Freya who was baptised on Sunday.
With events including a fun run/walk and morris dancing, community picnic, stalls and lots of activities there will be something for everyone at the Bradninch Fair this coming Saturday, 25th September. St Disen’s Church will be open in the morning, 10.00am till 1.00pm. So why not come and take a closer look at our medieval screen or see if you recognise anyone in one of our vintage photos of the choir in years gone by.
Come and join us for the first of our autumn Sunday afternoon concerts on 19th September at 5.00pm. Helen Porter, a multi-talented musician, composer and singer, will be presenting her ‘Unexpected Song’.
Then on 3rd October, Trio Exe invite us to join them on a Russian Romance, a musical journey to Russia in the 1890s and on 24th October Philip Garson will treat us to some of the great piano classics.
Tickets £7.00 on the door.
Our two children’s groups, Tiddlywinks for babies and toddlers and Messy Church for children of all ages will be starting again on Wednesday, 15th September. Tiddlywinks is at 9.30am in St Disen’s Hall and will be held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month and Messy Church will be at the Baptist Church from 3.30pm on the third Wednesday.
And, our All Age Service will be back on the first Sunday of the month, starting 3rd October at 10.30am. For anyone and everyone with music, space for reflection and prayer and a lot of fun! We look forward to welcoming you there.
The second Saturday in September (this year 11th September) is Devon Historic Churches Day the main fund raising event for the Devon Historic Churches Trust. The day incorporates Ride & Stride, a national initiative to encourage people to walk, run or cycle to visit their local or not so local church(es).
The DHCT was founded in 1973 in order to raise money to fund repairs to any and all of Devon’s 600 plus parish churches. If you would like to give a donation please visit their web page.
St Disen’s will be open on Saturday 11th September, 2.00 – 4.00pm. We are also now open regularly on Wednesdays and will be open too on Saturday, 25th September coinciding with the Bradninch Fair and from the beginning of October the church will be daily Monday-Saturday, approx. 10.00am – 4.00pm and for worship on Sunday mornings.