Coffee & more - Trussell Trust- Food donations welcome

This years outing is a coach trip to Bath Abbey. 

This beautiful abbey situated in the architectural stunning city of Bath is astounding in it's own right, however Bath is hosting the exhibition 'Threads through the Bible' across three venues, a absolutely amazing creations of embroidered tapestries depicting scenes from the bible.

All this and you can do lunch, city shopping, sightseeing etc

The coach will leave the Bus Stop opposite the Village hall at 9am promptly. We will aim to leave Bath at approximately 3pm. 

The entry ticket to the Abbey, includes a Self guided tour and entry to the Discovery Museum and the Embroidery Exhibition. 

Bath Abbey will be hosting the Embroidery Exhibition Threads Through the Cross. 

Further Embroidery exhibitions in this series are - 

Threads Through Revelation hosted at St Michael’s Without and Threads Through Creation at St Swithin’s.

Singing on the return journey is mandatory.

Another successful Christmas Fayre kicked off our seasonal events.

There was stalls for everyone, tombola's, puzzles, an array of bricabrac, cakes, toys, books and more as well as craft stalls.

It was great to see so many children this year, enjoying the games and choclate tombola. 

Thank you too everyone who came along and supported us, not to mention our amazing team of volunteers who brought it all together. thank you.

Balloons, books and knitting amongst the numerous materials and objects use to create Christmas trees, let alone the handmade decorations used to adorn them. 

Again this year our entrants imagination created some beautiful amazing Christmas Trees. 

Thought provoking, hidden messages, stunning designs, simplistic beauty and funny trees.

We may not be the biggest but our entrants trees are certainly amongst the best.

Now the result...

177 votes were cast and the winning tree was "Gerome the gnome" with 38 votes - well done Vanessa and Noel.

2nd place went to The Cherry Readers Book club with 19 votes just ahead of the Maidenbrook Park tree with 18 votes.  Better luck next time.

Sarah Nicolle won the quiz.  There were 121 Christmas trees  in the church to be seen. How many did you spot?

Thank you to all our entrants and volunteers who helped made it another illuminated spectacular in the church. You were tree-mendous!

See you next year.

You never quite know how a new event will be received, however two songs in and we already well on our way to a successful fun evening. 

Not a carol to be heard, apart from the one in the audience and when we say audience, we mean the stars of the evening. The audience were the entertainment and came together making everyone feel Christmassy. Santa showed up with chocolates, we had a few solo performances all joined together by our host Jon.

Feedback has been great, with many request for next year.

We will see you for The BIGGER Christmas Singalong next year.

Have you heard about the Turquoise Cardigan Club?

Yes, it really is a thing!

We are a small team working on grant applications to raise funds towards the re-ordering of the back of the church.

The cost of the re-ordering is about £100,000.00. That’s right - £100k. That’s a lot of events and coffee mornings!

But there are loads of Charitable Trusts with funds to award for projects such as ours. We use the CofE Cornerstone Directory of Funders, provided by the Diocese, Somerset Community Fund information and any other information that comes our way.

We meet every now and then, usually in the evening, for a couple of hours. 

Since we started grant applications in 2023 we have raised over £30,000.00, which has mended the Lady Chapel Roof, installed the new boiler, paid for the pipework. 

Would you like to join our team? you don’t have to have a turquoise cardigan!

Please contact Tricia for an informal chat. 

07541 835 069 cavill663@yahoo.co.uk

Have you heard of Mothers’ Union and what we do? No? Well, how would you like to find out more about this very special organization and how rewarding it can be?

We are a Christian Organization that has been supporting families in all their forms worldwide for nearly 150 years.

Our members both men, women, married or single demonstrate our faith in actions as we work towards ending poverty, ending inequality, ending injustice for all who face these problems. We give hope and practical support to millions of people each year and work together for a better world for all.

Be part of a movement of around 4 million people in 83 countries as we strengthen relationships in families and communities as we share God’s love with all, through actions and prayers.

Did you know we have a branch in West Monkton and would welcome new members to join us in trying to make a difference and help heal our broken world?

We currently meet in the Benefice Office in Kingston St Mary on the second Monday of the month at 2.30pm where a warm welcome awaits you. Please come along young and old alike with new thoughts and ideas and help us to help those less fortunate than ourselves to face the challenges of today. We are the hands and feet of Jesus.

Family life, faith, action and prayer.

Would you like to be involved? 

If so please call or email me - Anne Roynon 07428159215    Anne.roynon@hotmail.co.uk

 The Parochial Church Council are invited to tell our meaningful story and mission in order to apply for grant funding for the re ordering project within St Augustine’s Church.

The Trustees of the charities we apply to suggest we cover areas such as : What we are doing , Why we are doing it , What we aspire to do differently , What are our aspirations , Who is benefitting from our missional outreach and how we will ensure the sustainability beyond charity funding.

The Joseph Rank Trust , amongst others we are applying to , as recommended by the Bath and Wells Diocese,  recommends we place a short video on our website which explains our work, as a video can really add value to an application and highlight our objectives.

A small team from the PCC are carrying out this work of making grant applications and have produced our video which we can add to our applications and ensure our success . 

Thank you for watching.