“Flood” at St Disen’s

Following the heavy snowfall at the end of February, the north and south gullies on the church roof became clogged with snow. With the thaw beginning on March 3rd, the melt water had no escape except downwards into church!  Many gallons of water soaked the south and north aisles, the carpets, pew runners and the floors between the pews. Fortunately, there was no damage to the chancel, the rood screen or the piano. The only way of stopping the downpour was to dig away and dispose of the snow in the gullies.  Many, many thanks are due to Colin and Paul Crispin for completing this Herculanian task!

The Sunday morning communion service had to be held in St Disen’s Hall—- different, but actually very lovely.

A combination of an overworked VAX machine, constant heating and a hired de-humidifier means that everything is now almost back to normal.  Many thanks to everyone who helped in moving furniture and lifting carpets, and especially to Jill and David for their sterling work with the VAX!

Tiddlywinks

Please note that there will be no Tiddlywinks this Wednesday, 3rd January.  It will start up again on Wednesday 17th January, 9.30am.  And on Wednesday 24th January we will be hosting our usual coffee morning from 10.30am.

Crib Service

The ‘Knitivity’

Adults and children alike enjoyed our crib service on Christmas Eve as the stable gradually filled with woolly figures as the Christmas Story unfolded.

A New Parish Ministry

We were delighted to officially welcome Revd Olly Mears last evening, 4th December, when he was licensed by the Bishop of Exeter to serve as Priest in Charge at St Disen’s here in Bradninch and also as Pioneer Minister for St Andrew’s in Cullompton.  Representatives from the parishes, neighbouring churches and the County Council added their words of welcome.  We look forward to working with Olly as we put into action words from the Bishop’s address to grow our church.

Revd. Olly Mears

We also take this opportunity to thank the PCC and particularly the Churchwardens for all their hard work in keeping the life of the church going during the 18 month vacancy.

 

Pre-Advent Lunch 26th November 2017

St Disen’s celebrated the end of the church’s year and started looking forward to Advent and Christmas with a lovely three course lunch – a trio of starters, roast beef and a scrumptious selection of deserts.

As well as welcoming friends and family, we were also delighted that Revd. Olly and his family were able to join us.  Our thanks go to all who helped prepare the meal and made the tables look so lovely.

New Priest for St. Disen’s

We are delighted to welcome Revd. Olly Mears and his family to Bradninch.

Olly will be licenced by the Bishop of Exeter at St. Disen’s Church on Monday, 4th December at 7-00pm.

Everyone is most welcome to attend the service and, later, to join Olly and his family for refreshments in St. Disen’s Hall.

 

Harvest Sunday 8th October 2017

   

The church was beautifully decorated for Harvest Sunday when St Disens celebrated the harvest with a special service including well-known harvest hymns such as ‘Come Ye Thankful People Come’ followed by a lovely three course lunch.

With food from around the world available to us today at the click of a button it is all too easy to forget the importance of the harvest.  But many people are struggling to get enough food and our world faces a variety of environmental problems that threaten our future food supply.  Our ‘harvest homily’ exhorted us, therefore, to take our thanksgiving for harvests safely gathered in to a new concern for the whole world.

Our thanks go to all who decorated the church, cooked and served the lunch, and cleared away afterwards!